detailing Elden Ring's lore, visuals, and gameplay.
Modern FromSoftware has a widespread reputation for crafting difficult, unforgiving games; Demons Souls and the subsequent Dark Souls trilogy are often used as shorthand in the gaming community when discussing challenging releases. Bloodborne and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice are also considered tough in their own right, though in slightly different ways. Needless to say, much of the recent discourse surrounding Elden Ring relates to the game's difficulty, how it affects the overall experience, and how it will impact first-time players. Elden Ring borrows a lot of mechanics and concepts from these earlier releases, but there is reason to believe that many will consider Elden Ring to be a comparatively easier experience.
Still, the game will undoubtedly pose a challenge for plenty of gamers, especially those unfamiliar with FromSoftware's larger body of work. In a t effort to combat this issue, Youtuber VaatiVidya and BANDAI NAMCO have announced a concise and comprehensive video guide for beginners. VaatiVidya's guide, which was published on the BANDAI NAMCO YouTube channel, details best practices for learning the basics of combat, applying weapon affinities, and creating desired builds in Elden Ring.
The video is less than twenty minutes long but covers a lot of ground; there is a good chance that not a lot of new players will immediately grasp particular concepts like poise, super armor, and guard counters, and relying on Elden Ring's co-op features can only take one so far. This guide will also surely provide some much-needed guidance to players who are overwhelmed by the unique, dense open world that the game sets them in. One of the positive aspects of this looser structure is the increased degree of freedom when it comes to which enemies to fight and how to upgrade a character, and Vaatividya's video can be a boon when following those ambitions as well.
Looking past the video's contents itself, many fans are sure to find Bandai Namco's actions with this guide irable; the company could very well have produced its own beginner guide and perhaps reaped greater profits from it, but instead worked with an independent creator who has been ing FromSoftware content for years. Whether or not Elden Ring is easier than other games from this studio, this publisher-YouTuber team-up is sure to please plenty of gamers.
Source: Vaatividya/Twitter, BANDAI NAMCO/Twitter, BANDAI NAMCO Europe/YouTube
