But in Souls and Elden Ring, you get to pick what kind of fighter you want to be from a banquet of murderous options. It's not quite as absolutely prescriptive as Sekiro-there's still room to experiment if you want to, and some of Bloodborne's weapons get quite strange indeed. A hunter has a range of weapons to choose from (saw blades, axes, electrified sticks and small swords hidden inside greatswords), but they're still ultimately going to be nippy, aggressive wee rascals-Bloodborne simply doesn't have an equivalent to a greatshield tank or full-on spellcaster. (Image credit: From Software)īut Bloodborne knows exactly how it wants you to play. Hell, you could even equip Bloodhound's Step and Malenia's Great Rune and play Elden Ring like a knock-off Bloodborne-dashing about recklessly and snatching back lost health.Įdinburgh at sunset is quite the sight. There's a dizzying list of bosses to face, all of which can be approached too early or too late, and with so many tools at your disposal it's possible you'll just flat-out break half of them with an infinite-mana beam laser.
It contains within it all of Dark Souls, and then some-a thousand different weapons to master and spells to learn. With so many tools at your disposal it's possible you'll just flat-out break half of them with an infinite-mana beam laser.īut Elden Ring can be so much all the time that it can be utterly overwhelming. Even as old demigods devour corpses and scheme over the husks of ancient kingdoms, Elden Ring feels heroic, a pulp adventure in a way Souls has never been. Moreover, Elden Ring's world might be rotten and corrupt, but from its golden skies and autumnal fields to flocks of sheep grazing lazily, it's not a world beyond redemption. An absolute escalation of the knotted, layered world design that has defined FromSoftware for over a decade, bumped up to Skyrim's scale. Elden Ring's open world is a marvellous, complex beast. Let me make this clear though: this is not, as I am often want to write, a "new thing isn't as good as old thing I like" feature.
But part of it is also that Bloodborne's lean, mean single serving is a welcome reprieve after feasting on Elden Ring's vast buffet.
Sure, part of this is I've put 150+ hours into one of these games while the other is still new. And yet, after a few minutes I find myself back in Yharnam, cutting up werewolves at what could generously be described as 'serviceable' visual quality. Every time I've fired Elden Ring back up natively, I'm reminded what it's like to run a FromSoftware game at a crisp 1440p and a (mostly) smooth 60fps.
#BLOODBORNE PC INDI FULL#
An experiment in seeing what game streaming is like these days, but not something I'd actually put up with for the runtime of a full game.
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