Elden Ring

 Xbox Series X
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7.7

Generally favorable reviews- based on 3153 Ratings

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  1. IRON_MAN
    Nov 3, 2022
    4
    Overhyped Darksouls Game. Just another Darksouls with open world and boring story.
  2. Los_Bags
    Mar 6, 2022
    4
    If ur a souls fan … ull probably think it’s gods gift to the world. If you arent, itll feel like a boring, needless, waste of 80$. World is cool looking for a little bit, but then it just feels like a harder skyrim copy in third person view. The fact that almost every single website that reviewed it had it done by souls fanatics gives this the wrong rating. For once, u can trust the userIf ur a souls fan … ull probably think it’s gods gift to the world. If you arent, itll feel like a boring, needless, waste of 80$. World is cool looking for a little bit, but then it just feels like a harder skyrim copy in third person view. The fact that almost every single website that reviewed it had it done by souls fanatics gives this the wrong rating. For once, u can trust the user reviews, cuz this game really is not a 10… Expand
  3. Nooob
    Nov 3, 2022
    4
    Same Combat mechanics for 13 years already (2009) just added with a Open World more like Open Field...
  4. fkonradt
    Apr 11, 2022
    4
    Nothing special. Wooden mechanics sold as features.
    I spend like 5 hours and I have hard time to force myself to continue.
  5. floyk
    Feb 26, 2022
    4
    Impossible to play online.
    I understand nothing to the story of the game.
    Texture are horrible
  6. qwerty17771
    Feb 28, 2022
    4
    'When you've finished your 4th Black Forest gateau - here, have another, and try not to puke'

    Putting 5-10 hours into this game gave me both a skinking sense of deja-vu and the feeling of forcing myself to eat fistfuls of overly sweet cake. If, like me, you have played this series since Demon's Souls, you will realise Elden Ring is Dark Souls 4. Or Demon's Souls 2 - It doesn't really    'When you've finished your 4th Black Forest gateau - here, have another, and try not to puke'

    Putting 5-10 hours into this game gave me both a skinking sense of deja-vu and the feeling of forcing myself to eat fistfuls of overly sweet cake.

    If, like me, you have played this series since Demon's Souls, you will realise Elden Ring is Dark Souls 4. Or Demon's Souls 2 - It doesn't really matter at this point.

    Other than the *slightly* more open world structure (the 'Souls series was always somewhat open in structure) and Torrent the goathorse, everything is exactly the same as all the previous games, including elements from Bloodborne and Sekiro.

    Same player classes and animations?
    Same enemy design, including enemy types/classes?
    Same pseudo-mediaeval world, with lonely atmosphere?
    Same dead-eyed, hollow-voiced NPCs?
    Same controls and combat system?
    Same telling of the opaque story and world lore through item descriptions?
    Same, boring, grindy progression system?
    Same die-and-die-again repetitive gameplay?
    Enroaching feeling that you are wasting your life playing updates to the same game released well over a decade ago?

    'Yes' to all of the above.

    Mashing together your previous 4 games and adding a horse is in no way innovative or good, by any metric. This is one of the laziest 'masterpieces' I have ever seen.

    It used to be fun, but its just the same bland thing over and over again.

    Utterly sickening - i hope you like cake. And then more cake. After a palate cleanser of cake. All washed down with a warm glass of cake, chewed up and regurgitated into a pint glass by Hidetaka Miyazaki.    … Expand
  7. tenacioustofu
    Mar 11, 2022
    4
    Let me start off by saying that I've loved From games for a long time, but Elden Ring jumped the shark for me. The first 60-70% or so of the game is a ton of fun, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. But the boss design, especially in late game is just... mindbogglingly bad. I won't put specifics in here so as to avoid spoilers, but I was feeling so bummed about the state of this game that ILet me start off by saying that I've loved From games for a long time, but Elden Ring jumped the shark for me. The first 60-70% or so of the game is a ton of fun, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. But the boss design, especially in late game is just... mindbogglingly bad. I won't put specifics in here so as to avoid spoilers, but I was feeling so bummed about the state of this game that I created an account here to write this review.

    I looked forward to this game for years, but the late game bosses just make it completely unenjoyable. It feels like beating them has nothing to do with skill or learning, but just dumb luck. It feels like From needs to recalibrate their expectations for boss design. I'll probably just play the first 70% of the game or so going forward, but I'm not even sure if I'll stick around for that.

    I feel so bummed out about this game. I stayed up late to play it when it released, and felt like a little kid again with how hyped I was. Such a genuine let down to not be able to play through the whole game and enjoy it.    … Expand
  8. Welpasian123
    Mar 29, 2022
    4
    Welp, im just here to raise awareness for my fellow asian players on the language issue who can't play because the game is locked in select languages like chinese, korean, taiwanese. For my fellow users that have to create a hong kong, japan acc for their credit cards to work because it doesn't work if the region is for example the united states. For my fellow users who don't have physicalWelp, im just here to raise awareness for my fellow asian players on the language issue who can't play because the game is locked in select languages like chinese, korean, taiwanese. For my fellow users that have to create a hong kong, japan acc for their credit cards to work because it doesn't work if the region is for example the united states. For my fellow users who don't have physical copies on sale on the stores near them. For my fellow players who can't get a refund… Expand
  9. ss23
    Apr 17, 2022
    4
    First of all, let me preface by saying that it is never acceptable to knowingly release software that clearly cannot perform its main function reliably. Why should this be any different with Elden Ring's frame stutters? It has been a month and a half without any real fixes. I do not recall the same level of compassion with Cyberpunk.

    With Elden Ring, Fromsoft proves it has finally lost    First of all, let me preface by saying that it is never acceptable to knowingly release software that clearly cannot perform its main function reliably. Why should this be any different with Elden Ring's frame stutters? It has been a month and a half without any real fixes. I do not recall the same level of compassion with Cyberpunk.

    With Elden Ring, Fromsoft proves it has finally lost sight of what makes their games fair and rewarding and has caved in completely to artificial difficulty. Fights in this game are either trivial or littered with poorly thought out fast attacks and combos, with dramatic AOE effects in bossrooms to cover up the horrible design choices. The gameplay has barely changed since DS3 and does not equip the player with the appropriate toolset to handle its range of enemies. Even worse, they have somehow regressed in quality, with slower rolls, less i frames, input buffering, input delay, inputs disappearing. The damage done in the last third of the game is so bizarre that I cannot even begin to comprehend the thought process. It feels like From really wanted to make an open world game, designed a huge and interconnecting map, and everything else just played second fiddle: littering the landscape with uncreative, sparse and repeated dungeons and encounters, scrapping together unused boss and enemy designs from previous games and slapping it together without thorough playtesting or thoughtful user-oriented design. In summary, after several hundred hours of From games, this is the game that has now tarnished my image of From as a company that holds their games to high standards and respects the player.    … Expand
  10. Cristianpl
    Nov 6, 2022
    4
    Jogo subestimado, muito lento e movimentações travadas como todos os jogos linha.
  11. agq
    Jul 28, 2023
    4
    This is easily the worst From Soft game ever made. Played through this game entirely feeling as though it was the end of From Software making good games. Where do I even start, the game will either overpower you in certain areas, or be under-powered compared to the areas you may have previously traversed. The would feels lazily made with many rehash enemies and bosses from previous areasThis is easily the worst From Soft game ever made. Played through this game entirely feeling as though it was the end of From Software making good games. Where do I even start, the game will either overpower you in certain areas, or be under-powered compared to the areas you may have previously traversed. The would feels lazily made with many rehash enemies and bosses from previous areas in this game and other From Soft games. The world is really more or less a "Souls-borne gallery" with no real heart, passion, or soul poured into the making of the game.… Expand
  12. ColdHand
    Apr 3, 2022
    3
    Bloody hell, this game is bad. Let me be clear : If you've ever played a soulsborne (Sekiro was different. Bad, but different.), you've already played Elden Ring : same animation, same layout, same concepts... at this point, From Soft became a caricature of themselves. Dark Souls 3 and Bloorborne were good, though. So what's the difference ? Both were known for their excellent levelBloody hell, this game is bad. Let me be clear : If you've ever played a soulsborne (Sekiro was different. Bad, but different.), you've already played Elden Ring : same animation, same layout, same concepts... at this point, From Soft became a caricature of themselves. Dark Souls 3 and Bloorborne were good, though. So what's the difference ? Both were known for their excellent level design. With this open world, the laziness is over 9'000 : you're dropped in the middle of and empty land and have to figure out not only how to do things but worse, what to do. This game is a disgrace.… Expand
  13. MingledLotus24
    Apr 3, 2022
    3
    I dont like it too much. Neither aesthetics, nor balance, fights, story and this huge empty world. It requires very much time for exploring and game rewards your exploration with very little of something. Sekiro is like million times better. Cant understand how same team was able to make ingenuous sekiro and this. Continue to playing however - maybe later will change my mind
  14. Emeraldirish
    Mar 16, 2022
    3
    After over 150 hours in, completing the main story and the vast majority of side content, falling in love with this world and then slowly but surely growing to hate it I can say with absolute certainty that in my opinion this is from softwares worst game.
    I know that is a bold statement and giving this game such a low score seems extreme but hear me out because this isn’t just some review    After over 150 hours in, completing the main story and the vast majority of side content, falling in love with this world and then slowly but surely growing to hate it I can say with absolute certainty that in my opinion this is from softwares worst game.
    I know that is a bold statement and giving this game such a low score seems extreme but hear me out because this isn’t just some review bomb. I’m a souls vet, I have played every from software game still available, I have played and replayed DS1, DS2(only twice because yeah no     … Expand
  15. milosjov
    Feb 27, 2022
    3
    Multiplayer not working, loading times are horrendous, graphics is not especially good and game stutters all the time. Are we even playing the same game as those 10/10 so called professional gaming journalists?
  16. Knightstarr99
    Feb 27, 2022
    3
    Game is fine until you’re getting constantly kicked while down and have 0 chance of survival You’re better off playing the DS Trilogy or Bloodborne instead, those ones are still challenging AND it still feels fair

    This game isn’t that at all
  17. snootchie
    Aug 11, 2023
    3
    One of the most overrated games of all time. I was only 1.5 hours in before I decided to return it (for PC, Steam). Not exactly sure why there was so much hype. It's essentially like an early 2000's game with 2020's graphics. Narrative-wise... well there isn't really one. Combat-wise... well it's just the exact same, dated combat system from Dark Souls. Seriously. This game is overratedOne of the most overrated games of all time. I was only 1.5 hours in before I decided to return it (for PC, Steam). Not exactly sure why there was so much hype. It's essentially like an early 2000's game with 2020's graphics. Narrative-wise... well there isn't really one. Combat-wise... well it's just the exact same, dated combat system from Dark Souls. Seriously. This game is overrated and did not deserve the hype it got.
    Baldur's Gate 3 IS as groundbreaking as everyone said this game was. Skip this one and pick up BG3.    … Expand
  18. javellinh
    Feb 26, 2022
    3
    Fun but unlplayable with all this stutters and freezes. For game with such mechanics it is unacceptable
  19. MarleyW
    Jan 28, 2023
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Spoiler alert This game f’ing sucks literally a grind fest between every boss… Expand
  20. Lirl
    Feb 27, 2022
    3
    Catastrophic performance on the XBX. Performance mode take huge dips on fights which makes it unplayable when a game is literally made around it. Wait for fix and sale.
  21. BradPig
    Feb 28, 2022
    3
    Elden ring is a good game but it turns out that it is more of the same, the same difficulty, the same gameplay, simply its novelty is that it is an open world, it is more of the same when it comes to an old graphics engine. How could have almost perfect grades? I just don't get it, it's full of bugs, pop up, fog, etc. Those who rated it forgave all this just like that. That does not meanElden ring is a good game but it turns out that it is more of the same, the same difficulty, the same gameplay, simply its novelty is that it is an open world, it is more of the same when it comes to an old graphics engine. How could have almost perfect grades? I just don't get it, it's full of bugs, pop up, fog, etc. Those who rated it forgave all this just like that. That does not mean that repeating the formula gives you many hours of exploration and why not? of frustration. In general it is a very inflated game by the media, it is not even remotely what they wanted to make it seem. It is not perfect, it is not open to all, where is the objectivity? It's a shame that they behave like this.… Expand
  22. Nixoid
    Jun 1, 2023
    3
    No balance. Some of the mechanics are simply clunky. Neither aesthetics, nor balance, fights, story and this huge empty world
  23. Hbrass23
    Mar 7, 2022
    3
    Game is janky and the controls really just don't feel right. Grinding for the sake of grinding is bad game design, imo
  24. Pig-El-Mago
    Feb 27, 2022
    3
    Jogo porco de uma produtora preguiçosa, os gráficos parecem de início de geração do Ps3 ou Xbox, pop-ins a cada 2s e fora a terrível performance principalmente nos consoles de última geração e PC. E o pior é essa mídia especializada (comprada) dando essas notas altas... Lamentável!
  25. TheeObscene
    Mar 1, 2022
    3
    This game feels pointless and is just plain boring. Last generation graphics with sub 60 fps.
  26. BerkC39
    Mar 4, 2022
    3
    To start with, this game probably deserves higher than the rating I am giving it but in the light of biased rave reviews the game has received (which would not be accepted by those reviewers unfortunately), I will also provide a biased review according to me personal taste.

    Elden Ring is a dated looking poorly optimized game with interesting and fleshed out character build and combat    To start with, this game probably deserves higher than the rating I am giving it but in the light of biased rave reviews the game has received (which would not be accepted by those reviewers unfortunately), I will also provide a biased review according to me personal taste.

    Elden Ring is a dated looking poorly optimized game with interesting and fleshed out character build and combat mechanics that only seems to serve the niche of gamers who like the soulslike formula. I believe this game having a rave metacritic would falsely give the impression that it's appealing for masses of casual gamers hence my review.

    As a fan of open world RPG genre carrying many other responsibilities which obliges me to not be able to spare extended stretches of time or entirety of my intellectual capacity to a video game, I found this game to be a poor experience.

    There are a few critical points Elden Ring ignores whether it's intentional or not. Game experience is very unguided. You will likely have bad time figuring out how to progress the story or even what the story is, and consequently you will find yourself wandering around weak mobs in a monotone routine if you don't enjoy that kind of tedious exploration. World is quiet desolate and falls into pitfalls Ubisoft RPGs are prevalently considered to fall into while having no cities or areas bustling with energy many other RPGs offer.

    Accessibility is very poor. Bosses are quiet challenging to the extent that even an experienced gamer who just doesn't have experience with genre will have nightmare time unless one enjoys attempting a single boss fight for more than a dozen time especially given that there are often no tooltips or guidance on how to make certain fights easier given lack of difficulty options for user to choose. This often requires player to memorize move set of the boss while dying numerous times where poor optimization causes big problems as frame drops hinder the application of this memorization as well. This is in addition to the fact that game requires almost impeccable gaming reflexes to apply any of the move set memorization to an efficient enough degree to win these fights.

    Overall, I can see the attraction of this game for the fans of this genre but it is not a game that deserves the acclaim reserved for experiences that can be enjoyed by majority of the overall open world RPG genre like the Witcher 3 or Red Dead Redemption 2 do deserve.    … Expand
  27. Pretorian
    Mar 10, 2022
    2
    Performance of this game is pathetic, no matter what console you're playing on.
  28. Koeitje
    Feb 27, 2022
    2
    Interesting premise, I really love the open world approach in Elden Ring. Graphically it looks fine, but it runs so incredible bad that I had to stop playing. Get the fps up to a stable 60 and its a masterpiece, right now its not worth buying. In a game that revolves around timing these framerate issues are just unacceptable.
  29. Daniel__Drake
    Feb 27, 2022
    2
    O Jogo tem um gráfico de nível de ps3, tem muitos bug, e a falta de conteúdo também se aplica ao jogo! No Xbox o jogo roda abaixo do esperado!
  30. KungfuMonkey
    Mar 1, 2022
    2
    Wow the hype on this game is so absurd. It is not a GREAT game....maybe it is a good game if you are a fan of JRPGs. But all the "Pro Game Reviews" just come off as paid ads.
    There is a lot of complexity to this game, but it is buried underneath frustrating controls and clunky gameplay.
    Risk the spoilers of watching game play vids...take the time to see some of the negative criticism.    Wow the hype on this game is so absurd. It is not a GREAT game....maybe it is a good game if you are a fan of JRPGs. But all the "Pro Game Reviews" just come off as paid ads.
    There is a lot of complexity to this game, but it is buried underneath frustrating controls and clunky gameplay.
    Risk the spoilers of watching game play vids...take the time to see some of the negative criticism. This might be a great game for you...but just going on all the 10 ratings, is a huge mistake. I made the mistake of trusting that so many sites giving this a 10 meant it was a safe bet this is a really good game, and it just isn't. Is it horrible... probably not for some, but it isn't worthy of a perfect score that everyone is giving it.
    Ugh $70 down the toilet for me. :(    … Expand
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Universal acclaim - based on 19 Critic Reviews

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  1. The Mako Reactor
    Apr 4, 2022
    95
    Despite some annoying performance issues, Elden Ring is a masterpiece. The combat, enemy variety, exploration, music, and open world are top notch. I’ve been playing it daily across all platforms alongside other games all month, and look forward to doing that all year as I try new builds, help friends, and try to do everything I want in this triumph of a video game.
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  2. XboxAddict
    Mar 25, 2022
    100
    Elden Ring rewards your curiosity in many ways, be it items, runes or a pathway to another area, but mostly it’s a story to tell your friends when you are sharing tales around the bonfire. It does not force feed tutorials down your throat, but instead it leans far the opposite way by not telling you much at all and lets you explore and find things out on your own. There is no true quest log, no points of interest on a map or no arrows pointing you in the right direction, so there is a good chance you’ll miss some of the best caves and areas of the game. Because of all of this, Elden Ring is forcing me to find all of that out on my own and it is one of the most rewarding games I have ever played. I will continue to explore the Land Between for many hours to come. I’m just not in a hurry.
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  3. MondoXbox
    Mar 14, 2022
    92
    Elden Ring manages to draw the player into a fascinating world for many hours, with refined gameplay that fits perfectly with the freedom granted to the player. A sumptuous but imperfect work, which fails to completely overcome some of the historical flaws of Hidetaka Miyazaki's productions. Flaws that, however, can't diminish the scope of a masterpiece destined to leave an indelible mark on the videogame world and to set new standards for the souls-like and open-world genres.
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