Elden Ring is our GOTY and it's not even close
49The idea of ‘Dark Souls with a horse’ was appealing, but it had me worried my favourite studio would go down the dark path that ruined many others. I was afraid we’d get a massive game that offers multiples of its first ten hours, one with more map than you could conceivably explore, and icon barf to ensure you never run out of things to do without any of it feeling compelling.
Elden Ring ended up not having any of those problems, and it’s all because of two guiding principles. Elden Ring is an open world game that justifies being open. You’re free to go anywhere, and the game will even toy with you and send you to areas you won’t organically visit for a dozen or so hours later – teasing you about what’s to come.
That freedom is consistently rewarded, even if just by growing your power. Elden Ring does this by constantly showing you things over the horizon that are bound to catch your eye and tempt you to go after them. Even if you ignore that allure, you’ll quickly find that straying off the beaten path has other clear benefits.
The other thing that makes Elden Ring’s open world so compelling is that, for all the work it does to make you want to explore it, it’s okay with you missing out on a lot of it. You’re allowed to fail and get stuck. Elden Ring is perfectly fine with you getting lost because it trusts you to find your way eventually.
Most open-world games are so terrified of players missing out on content that they completely sap out all the discovery of their massive playgrounds. And for that, Elden Ring deserves my admiration.
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