I admit it. I don’t play Elden Ring and furthermore I don’t intend to. Right now if you are reading this you are probably hyperventilating in horror. After all it’s the greatest game ever made, a work of art and nothing will ever come close. Maybe it is and maybe it isn’t but for me the game is not in any way, shape or form, fun. I have not actually played it but I have played Dark Souls before and at no point was it enjoyable; the mechanics of the games of learning by repeated deaths is not what I game for. I game for escapism and for me the Souls types games do not offer that.
It’s a very simple motivation but one which a lot struggle to grasp. For me I want a game to be fun and this brings me round to the game I have been playing in my spare time the last month. The xbox port of Edge of Eternity.
It’s an indie JRPG which I believe was made originally for the PC as a kickstarter but I came across it on game pass. It’s buggy, slow to load and crashes like you wouldn’t believe. The menu items are so hard to read unless you have an absolutely massive TV and the difficulty jump for the final boss is insane. Tutorials are rare and half the bosses you fight in the hope that you will get some sort of cue on what you need to do.
And I’ve loved it.
Don’t get me wrong I don’t think I’ve ever saved a game as often as I have with this one and I’ve still not cracked the final boss; but I’ve loved it. It’s pretty, has a surprisingly well developed story and the combat has some nice original touches. But more importantly it does not feel like I am working. It feels fun. By no means is it a good game and I will do a full review on it when I crack the boss but the point I am making here is that so long as you are enjoying the game then you do you.
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