Category: Elden Ring
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Best Boss Battles: Bayle the Dread

Bayle! Vile Bayle! O terror incarnate! There is life in me yet! I will soon feast upon your heart! Mark my words! You too shall know fear! You know what? I’m tired of demigods. Radahn, Malenia, Messmer, Radahn again, I’m over ’em! ‘Elden Ring‘ is a fantasy game, god damn it, and you know what…
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Best Boss Battles: Promised Consort Radahn

Miquella awaits thee, o promised consort. Y’know, when I wrote my article on the original Radahn fight, I wasn’t expecting to write a sequel so soon. Or at all. Nor did I ever want to. Thanks, Miyazaki. As you travel through the Land of Shadow, many powerful foes will bar your path. Renalla the Twin…
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Best Boss Battles: Messmer the Impaler

When the first trailer for ‘Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree‘ was released, the hype train shot out of the station immediately. Standing at the front of that excitement, spear in hand, serpent coiled around his shoulders, stood Messmer the Impaler. From Software put him front and center of all the marketing, collector’s edition statue…
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Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is Brutal and I Love It

It wouldn’t be a From Software release if people weren’t whining about the difficulty. Like how the anti-gaming crowd get riled up every time a new ‘Grand Theft Auto‘ game rolls out. It’s a tale as old as time. And the only response is the same as it’s always been: git gud. Outdated internet drama…
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Elden Ring and Me

Of all the From Software games I’ve played, ‘Elden Ring‘ has made one of the largest impacts on my life. Like ‘Dark Souls‘ and ‘Bloodborne‘ before it, this game was and still is an experience I will never forget. It’s a true masterpiece in ever regard, flaws and all, and I’ve come to hold it…