rrarn 2265

This game just feels like every major boss had to be "the coolest" or "craziest" boss they've ever made with every boss flying around the screen and having multiple screen nukes it's so annoying

Elden RIng is one of my favorite games of all time, but the Shadow of The Erdtree DLC happens to highlight everything that I hate about Elden Ring and make it the main focus of the dlc. Firstly the scaling is ridiculous, every enemy does insane damage whilst you do relatively little damage, yes there are the fragments to help but I did a test and see how much it ups your damage by. Before the level my weapon had an AR of 1058 and after the upgrade my weapons AR was 1092, a total of 34 extra damage with a level. How in the world is that 34 damage increase going to make up for the insane scaling, it doesn't that's how. Second point is that they are still reusing bosses like the ghostflame dragon and bear which is very dissapointing to do in the DLC. The caves are practically worthless despite some looking alright because they don't give you anything decent. Lastly and most importantly none of the bosses could have been play tested because they are ridiculous. To preface I will say I have beat Malenia hitless fists only so skill wise I am not half bad but every boss in the DLC has been way too aggressive and deals way too much damage. Messmer is the prime example for all of my points, he has insane amounts of health on top of you dealing less damage, he is hyper aggressive and doesn't if ever let you attack him and so aggressive that its hard to even pull out a summon to use against him because he just attacks you before you're done with the animation and all of that is just for his first phase, his second phase is the most annoying boss in any game i've played so far and I beat the Lords of the Fallen remake. The weapons they added are also really bad for the DLC area so every new weapon I've used has been horrible and I switch back to any of the really good weapons from the base game to actually progress. I cannot state my dissapointment with this DLC because I have waited since the game came out with my 1000 hours of playtime waiting for something new to do but then they had to botch it so hard. I am going to beat Messmer then try and refund the dlc and spend the money on vbucks purely to spite the dlc and waste my money on the worst thing i can think of other then this. This DLC has been so bad that the overall game has tanked in rating from me, originally I gave Elden Ring a 9.9/10 because nothing is perfect but I thought it was a masterpiece. But the DLC has shown me so many flaws the game has and has made me take a second look at the base game and I have noticed all of the issues the gane truly has, not only has the dlc been bad but it has partially ruined the base game for me also. It's hard to enjoy anything the DLC does right like the graphics because the cool looking areas are locked behind bosses that are miserable to kill and make getting to those areas very bittersweet.

I want to love Elden Ring so much and I've already 100%'d it once and currently working on a 2nd 100% but I cannot ignore how bad the boss design is, visually everything looks amazing but every boss is either a reskin that you encounter 100 of later in the game, underwhelming, or annoying. The ancestor spirit fight was very cool but insanley easy with the only annoying move being the roll. Godskin Duo is just a horrible fight all raound, Placidusax and his teleporting around with an attack that connects without you ever being near it. Malenia's infamous waterfowl, fire giants addiction to rolling around the arena every second making him impossible to hit in phase 2. Maliketh wasn't annoying as much as underwhelimg. To me the worst offender was none other than the final boss, Radagon's hitboxes on some of his attacks are abosutely asinine and his damage output is insane making it just tedious rather then skillfull, and then Elden Beast. A final boss to a game like this being Elden Beast? One of if not the only time I was dissipointed by a boss's actual in game design rather then annoying moveset. But his moveset was atrocious also, his attacks have such long range deal infinite amounts of damage even with the holy damage talismans, damage reducing bubble tear, armor, and the 600% damage negation incantion. On top of that it is directly after the radagon fight so lord forbid you used any flasks on that fight. On top of all of this he is all the way across the already massive field at all times and loves to retreat to there with no chance of hitting him if you got close. I found the entire game fairly easy for better or worse, I've used a handful of different builds and felt that it was fun until it got to the main bosses, aside from Godfrey, Mohg, and Morgott/Margit, I had a disdain for the others for the reasons stated earlier and even more. Visually and aesthetically this game is a 10/10 but my lord can these bosses be tedious and aggrevating. They drive my score of elden ring straight down to the lowest it can be, because all though you can just avoid some, ones like the fire giant and final boss however cannot be avoided to beat the game. Making this game more about being annoyed at what's to come rather then actually enjoying what's in the now.