Elden Ring: Shadow of The Erdtree Is A Difficult Masterpiece

[@J-Zer03]

Thank you to anyone who clicked on the video and is here reading this, I've added timestamps in the description and would love some feedback on what you guys liked about the video and what I could improve on. This is my second vid and i'm still learning to edit and make content that's engaging and would love some constructive criticism. Anyway if your reading this thank you for clicking and induging in my new found hobby, I'm not going to stop anytime soon :).

[@Based_investor]

@J-Zer03 I was trolling but honestly, 90% of what people think is difficult is actually them being underleveled (shadow blessing level)

[@Chatisthisrealquestionmark]

Every commoner: it's too hard. Me, a man of culture: skill issue.

[@J-Zer03]

Yes

[@HeyTarnished]

Good video! People review bombed it on Steam because they thought they could steamroll through the DLC with their 500 lvl characters, they didn’t even know the fragments existed, most of them that review bombed it under this reason is haven’t even crossed the 1 hour mark throughout the DLC. 💀 Since my 2nd playthrough, the DLC was surprisingly not that hard after learning the bosses.

[@J-Zer03]

Yea it’s like they don’t know what game it is they’re playing like what did you expect

[@thelemetric]

scadutree is actually a really clever system. the map exploration was a pain in the butt though. so many locations are barren, hinterlands for example, but in general many parts. it makes exploration quite frustrating. this is compounded by the deliberately obscured pathways towards main areas. I loved this game, but so often felt trolled by the designers. I didnt have trouble with bosses but I was way overleveled from basegame -no regrets. mimic is my boy too. now bullying everything with thorns and maternal staff. see how they like it.

[@J-Zer03]

Yea honestly the more I think about some of the areas didn’t have much in terms of interesting items and weapons, but that confusing convoluted design is kinda what I love about it. Finding that shit on your own makes you feel like Indiana Jones or some shit yk.

[@vidhatanaik6270]

I think most players (including me) prepped for the DLC by playing through the base game again, and by the end of it, got super OP. When the DLC dropped, we just expected to be as OP and got frustrated when the enemies were not getting one-shot. When Rellana took me more than 2 attempts, I got seriously tilted and frustrated because I thought everything was going to roll over. I personally had to break that mental barrier and realize this is like starting all over again with no power - once I did that, it did not seem THAT hard a game.

[@J-Zer03]

I did the same thing, went in at level 130 I didnt want to be super op but I leveled to 150 throughout the DLC cuz this shit was hard

[@AlsoLizard]

It was clearly stated that there would be a new upgrade system and that should have been taken seriously. Ive got myself up to skadu +18 and theres really nothing I cant do in the DLC anymore. Thats not even max scadu upgrade either

[@J-Zer03]

True you just gotta explore

[@AlsoLizard]

@J-Zer03 Exactly, which is arguably one of the most fun parts!

[@xlegacyzero8878]

You are not suppose to roll thru commander Gaius' bull charge (I found that out the hard way as well). You are suppose to roll to the left or the right.

[@J-Zer03]

Does that work? cuz I swear I’ve tried that too

[@xlegacyzero8878]

@@J-Zer03 yeah if you try to run through it you'll get clipped by the 2nd hitbox right when you're s run out most of the time. but if you roll to the left or the right you'll avoid the first hitbox as normal and be too far away from the 2nd hitbox to get hit.

[@seancamacho4273]

Jumping out of the way works better.

[@mattmcdowall4579]

Sony famously only released demons souls in Japan initially because they thought it wouldn’t be well received in the west because it was too obtuse and difficult. The notoriety it gained is what led to the western market importing copies from Japan and eventually to an official western release, catapulting fromsoft from an obscure developer to what is considered today to be amongst the best developers of its generation. The difficulty of their games since demons souls has only increased, and yet the review scores for their games are consistently amongst the highest in the industry. The point of video games is to overcome a challenge. Beating Elden Ring is a challenge. Beating the dlc is more of a challenge. If it were only as challenging as the base game, there would be no point in releasing it, because it wouldn’t be challenging for people who have beaten the game. The difficulty isn’t the issue, and never has been the issue for any of their games. It’s what they’re renowned for. The sensitivity of the audience is the issue, and the unprecendented mainstream success of elden ring has brought with it a lot of people who value the notoriety of the game more than its difficulty. Those people whinge a lot. The dlc is hard because the game is supposed to be hard. The market is saturated with games; if you can’t beat it, play one that you can.

[@J-Zer03]

Well said, either get good, use all the tools the game provides you, or play something else

[@JCM311]

Yeah man the art direction is beautiful. I take pictures and post them all the time. People who don’t even know what this game is love them.

[@tokivikerness8863]

I don't think it's even that hard. I'm not very good at souls games either probably average. Nothing compared to melania. In my opinion it's just right.

[@J-Zer03]

Yes for me I was able to beta the base game without a single npc or spirit summon, but this dlc I don’t know if I would have without the npcs help, at least for a few of the bosses anyways

[@brandonrodriguez1277]

People saying it’s too hard never played other souls game

[@Maleniabom]

This is by far the hardest thing they’ve done but in the best ways possible

[@stevemichael652]

People saying it isn’t hard used summons

[@Koeras16]

I was a bit disappointed about the way they handled loot in this dlc. While the exploraiton is great, there is almost no reason to explore. Another cookbook after 15 minute of struggling to survive ? why ? The bosses on the other side aren't that hard. The game just sucks at explaining mechanics. The visual clutter is a bit of a pain though.

[@J-Zer03]

Yea especially with Radahn you can barely see his telegraphs at some points

[@stevemichael652]

This is more of you just explaining the game than a review , people have given 1 hour long reviews and not once felt it necessary to explain the progression or spoil anything.

[@naseemwaja8735]

'masterpiece'🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 good one

[@J-Zer03]

Thank you

[@naseemwaja8735]

@@J-Zer03 np

[@stevemichael652]

People saying it’s not hard used summons lmfao opinion not valid

[@thelemetric]

gotta be honest, the from art direction makes western studio look like grade school. diablo 4 for example, looks great but its just the same iterating on pseudo horror crap. same ol same ol. from made me fear fingers, wtf.

[@J-Zer03]

Valid phobia from now on me too

[@John-w6p8u]

You had someone help you wtaf

[@zarodgaming1844]

sucked so much it made me stop gaming. Miazaki shouls resign from director and stop making games. Scadutree fragments don't " make the game accessible " ... it just FORCES YOU to do other stuff you might not even care, and the game just straight up FORCES you to start every fight with a minimum of 80 damage negation. " is it too hard? " YES ... YES ,,, and YES again ... becasue if they weren't NO ONE WOULD bE COMPLAINING. Liars ..... liying developers ... making games for liying selfish gating people .-.. I AM using both spirits and magic and armor and spells and items ... istill die, every time ... you succesfully made making FROMSOFTWARE go bankrupt MORE FUN than actually playing the game. " you gotta get gud " ... yeah, until that guy gets SO GOOD it burns the entire system to the ground ... fine by me ... I also struggled growing up ... and now I am close to revolutionizing an entire industry from a room with mold in it ... WHAT I DO NOT SAY AFTERWARDS is that that is actually THE INTENDED EXPERIENCE and EVERYONE needs to go through what I WENT TRHOUGH ... because it is suffering and difficulties that ARE NOT NEEDED ... " isn't that euphoric? Isn't this games what they are all about?" ... no ... TO YOU ... TO YOU that's what the game is ... and if THAT is what souls games are to you, then it is limited and selfish. FOr the joy of 50 people, thousend suffered. No more ...

[@John-w6p8u]

It's not hard I'm on my 3rd playthrough git gud ffs

[@J-Zer03]

That is the whole point

[@natukono8605]

overrated masterpiece except its trash.

[@J-Zer03]

Hard to argue with that