A year and a half later, I might say that I still think From has taken too combat-heavy of an approach to their games, but. It's the most expansive and rendered and well-designed adventure dungeon-crawler ever made. Surprisingly thoughtful narrative refuses any easy answers has many representations and feelings about rotten power.

I wrote thousands of words about this on my blog: https://stevenzwahl.com/2022/08/26/ecology-review-elden-ring/