In my past life as a games writer, I dreamed of something like Elden Ring coming along. This isn’t simply because I wanted to review good games, but because it’s one of the strangest games I’ve ever played, and one that took several hours to click for me.
For those of you who aren’t gamers, Elden Ring is an open world game by From Software, a Japanese studio best known for making tight and difficulty action role-playing games. Their hallmark difficulty mostly comes down to how literal the world around you is — if you fire a projectile that…
