Do yourself a favor and grab Eleonora’s Poleblade, that thing is fun.
It’s Elden Ringmas, the one year anniversary of our 2022 GOTY (opens in new tab)’s launch, and I’m here to tell you it’s time for a replay. Wake up, Tarnished, we’ve got an Erdtree to burn, these 107 unique bosses (opens in new tab) aren’t gonna beat themselves!
My first Elden Ring character is one of my favorite guys I’ve ever made in an RPG—I started with the Samurai class, and opted for a sort of Sekiro shinobi look with dual katanas (including my beloved Moonveil) and the surprisingly stylish altered Preceptor Robes. When I finally beat the game after 100 hours, all I wanted was to keep going with this same guy in New Game Plus, but therein lies a problem: the supposed expansion pack.
The lonely DLCwatch (opens in new tab) continues, an echo of the long wait for Elden news after that first cinematic trailer in 2019. FromSoft expansions are often the best parts of their respective games, the studio let off the leash to create something wild and surprising in a context they’re already familiar with. When the best part of Elden Ring finally arrives (and I do think it’s still coming, even one year later) I want my #1 best boy to be ready to experience it day one, and not with souped-up megahard NG+ versions of all its enemies.
