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From: Justisaur <justisaur@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Elden Ring Nightreign
Date: Sat, 31 May 2025 19:13:36 -0700
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On 5/30/2025 7:39 PM, Justisaur wrote:
> On 5/30/2025 8:19 AM, Spalls Hurgenson wrote:
>  >
>  > So... no excitement for Elden Ring: Nightreign, the stand-alone
>  > expansion to Elden Ring?

> I'm just not excited yet.
> 
> Lies of P 2 I'm excited about, but that's going to be a long time.
> 

Well I bought it.  I think I played too much to refund it. I don't like 
it so far.

You're given a good chunk of map, and as you play over about 15 minutes 
it shrinks with flames filling everywhere else that damages you and will 
kill you.  You'll respawn close to the edge where it killed you, but 
minus a level.

There's way more on the map than you could do in that time and you're 
supposed to pick where to go based on some not very intuitive icons 
(somewhat if you've played ER) on the map.  Do you want more healing 
potions, a particular type of weapon (melee, ranged, magic focus) etc. 
go rest and level etc. Then you have to choose what item from around 3 
each time you want again using up time while doing so.

I really hate time pressure, ever since Fallout 1 so this is really bad 
for me.  I've pretty much given up on doing all that and just following 
around the other players.

When you die to one of the bosses and aren't revived, or everyone goes 
down at the same time, your run is over, so you start almost back at 
square one.  You get some relics you can equip to different characters.

The bosses usually have a bunch of mobs with them too and it gets pretty 
crazy and feeling overwhelmed.

Knowing the dodge timing of some of the bosses and mobs from ER is 
really useful, so I can only imagine how bad this would be without that 
for someone new.

It really just feels like it's a 45 minute runback to a boss every time 
you want to try again.

There's only one magic character, and she's the glass half of a glass 
cannon, so not very good, and that's my favorite type in the previous 
games, so a strike there.

With enough play perhaps I can get used to it, but I'm not enjoying it now.

I was enjoying Tiny Tina's Wonderland far more that I just started and 
the Tainted Grail demo, and don't feel like subjecting myself to it 
anymore.  Maybe I'll give it another try later, but probably not.

One Star.  I'd call this a strong recommend against this, and should've 
listened to the low score.  I could see someone who likes fast paced, no 
time to stop or think and very very hard ER type combat enjoying this. 
There's obviously people who do, but so far I'm not one of them.

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-Justisaur

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