Recommended: Yes
Positives:
Elden Ring is the most fun first playthrough i had in a souls game (besides bloodborne that is). Its not fromsoftware's best game, but its very good. The world is great to explore the first time around. The platinum is easy and fun (no grind), the lore of the game is interesting. There is no need to farm (even though there are good spots for farming) because you can just become stronger by exploring the immense world. You have the ability to either make the game the second hardest (below sekiro) or one of the easiest depending on what kind of build you choose to make and whether or not you use the summon spirits. Most days (especially when i first started playing the game) i was averaging on 7 or 8 hours straight playing elden ring. This is how much i liked playing it despite its problems just because it was fun to explore. Lastly, i really liked some of the bigger dungeons.
Negatives: My biggest issue with the game are the many reusable bosses although thats kinda expected on a game this massive. Thankfully most of them could be view as optional farming content. But a couple of the unique bosses like astel and some of the main bosses are reused which is kinda unacceptable for me. Not a deal breaker and not really an issue for the first playthrough but it definetly impacts the replayability of the game. Even though i really like the open world aspect i feel like the game is less replayable due to its size and i prefer the semi-open world design of the previous games. I also don't like the fact that bosses seem to be designed to be fought with summons and i prefer to play these games solo. Nothing wrong with having and using summons, but the bosses should be designed for a solo fight. The bosses are decent and a few are S tier but overall they don't compare with the bosses of bloodborne ds3 and sekiro. The mountaintops of the giants seems a bit rushed and uninteresting. Lastly, i did everything in the game, killed every enemy, finished all caves and dungeons, killed all bosses. The caves/dungeons are all the same and very boring towards the end if you go for all of them. If you don't want to do everything in the game like me, i recommend looking up at the wiki where the useful items for you are located and go for them only.
I can't really judge the game completly because these games can only be judged along with their dlc's and it seems to me like Shadow of the Erdtree will take a few months (until hopefully February 2023). The dlc's always raise these games in my eyes and the fact that this is going to be their biggest one yet has a lot of potential to upgrade elden ring and make me ignore some of its minor negatives even more.
Hopefully i will remember to edit this after i play Shadow of the Erdtree.
Positives:
Elden Ring is the most fun first playthrough i had in a souls game (besides bloodborne that is). Its not fromsoftware's best game, but its very good. The world is great to explore the first time around. The platinum is easy and fun (no grind), the lore of the game is interesting. There is no need to farm (even though there are good spots for farming) because you can just become stronger by exploring the immense world. You have the ability to either make the game the second hardest (below sekiro) or one of the easiest depending on what kind of build you choose to make and whether or not you use the summon spirits. Most days (especially when i first started playing the game) i was averaging on 7 or 8 hours straight playing elden ring. This is how much i liked playing it despite its problems just because it was fun to explore. Lastly, i really liked some of the bigger dungeons.
Negatives: My biggest issue with the game are the many reusable bosses although thats kinda expected on a game this massive. Thankfully most of them could be view as optional farming content. But a couple of the unique bosses like astel and some of the main bosses are reused which is kinda unacceptable for me. Not a deal breaker and not really an issue for the first playthrough but it definetly impacts the replayability of the game. Even though i really like the open world aspect i feel like the game is less replayable due to its size and i prefer the semi-open world design of the previous games. I also don't like the fact that bosses seem to be designed to be fought with summons and i prefer to play these games solo. Nothing wrong with having and using summons, but the bosses should be designed for a solo fight. The bosses are decent and a few are S tier but overall they don't compare with the bosses of bloodborne ds3 and sekiro. The mountaintops of the giants seems a bit rushed and uninteresting. Lastly, i did everything in the game, killed every enemy, finished all caves and dungeons, killed all bosses. The caves/dungeons are all the same and very boring towards the end if you go for all of them. If you don't want to do everything in the game like me, i recommend looking up at the wiki where the useful items for you are located and go for them only.
I can't really judge the game completly because these games can only be judged along with their dlc's and it seems to me like Shadow of the Erdtree will take a few months (until hopefully February 2023). The dlc's always raise these games in my eyes and the fact that this is going to be their biggest one yet has a lot of potential to upgrade elden ring and make me ignore some of its minor negatives even more.
Hopefully i will remember to edit this after i play Shadow of the Erdtree.