Elden Ring is the big video game novelty of the beginning of the year 2022. It will be difficult or even impossible to miss the latest FromSoftware game to date, and there is no doubt that the players will succeed various exploits while discovering the title. Moreover, some of them have already succeeded in achieving the impossible… or almost.
Elden Ring : a not so difficult game
We are likely to hear a lot about the latest FromSoftware game, Elden Ring. The creators behind the saga Dark Souls have joined forces with the creator of Game of Thrones to offer us an immersive and extremely creative game, which will require players to make a significant investment to understand its plot, like all the other titles in the game. As usual with the various games in the license, the difficulty is there and it is a regular opportunity for players to prove that they are “real gamers” by proudly announcing the few tries they needed for each boss. Yet, in Elden Ringthere is a fight that you are all supposed to lose the first time you encounter it, except for already very reckless players.
The boss in question is none other than the Grafted Offspring. An opponent who is normally too powerful for any of the players at this stage of the game. And for good reason, it is necessary to be knocked out by the latter to progress in the adventure. However, some players manage to defeat this boss without too much difficulty, and on top of that, with the class of Wretch, the equivalent of the beggar in the Souls, a class that starts in a loincloth armed only with a club. To do thisit will have taken a good deal of knowledge of the monster’s paterns to know when to strike back and dodge its attacks who can kill in two shots. Once it is defeated, players have the option of recovering the monster’s loot as if it had been defeated normally and…nothing. Players finding themselves soft-locked, having to restart their save…
Elden Ring : a necessary failure
Indeed, as explained above, it is necessary to fail against this boss to progress. Once knocked outthe player collects new objects necessary for the continuation of his adventure. This is not the first time that the FromSoftware studio has placed the player in the face of mandatory death in his games. This was already the case in BloodBorn and Sekiro : Shadows Die Twice. Understanding that failure is obligatory is necessary in the philosophy of Souls like. And in these two titles, the fight could also be won hands down, without real importance on the scenario, since the trigger to advance the plot is in your failure.
Most this is not the first feat achieved by the players of the titlecar several records have already been broken by them. Among them, the number of simultaneous players (760,000) on the game on Steam and the number of viewver on a Twitch game, with 910,000 people interested. If like many players you embark on the adventure Elden Ring, pay attention to the platform on which you play. Currently, the PS4 and PS5 versions seem to be the most optimized for single and multiplayer play. The PC version is to be avoided for the moment, because of very many bugs and a real lack of optimization of the title which made the fans howl of rage, eager to try the game in the best possible conditions, without success. To understand in more detail all the bugs and issues related to Elden Ring on PC we wrote an article on the subject can be found right here.
