Recent reviews by Golden Chief

Audio-visual experience: ★★★★★ (10)

The most direct and shocking thing about Elden Ring is probably his audio-visual experience. Wherever you explore, you can experience the uniqueness of each region through the art style of the Sayamachi, and listen to the message that the big belt gives us.

We understand the vibrancy and green grass of Nimgefo, and we also understand the grandeur and beauty of climbing high and looking into the distance. In Lake Lienia, we experience the magnificence and wonder of magic.The scarlet-scarlet Gallid makes explorers forever look forward to what kind of treasure awaits them?The majestic and solemn royal city dwarfs Stonewell. What kind of secrets will be hidden here?

As you can see from the above, the picture of Elden Ring is very expressive. Each region has its own unique style, and although the texture materials are still FS's ancestral textures, they are more impactful when properly arranged.

And the most shocking thing is actually the whole old man's ring, you can go there as long as you can see the buildings. This is a very scary and outrageous concept. In 99% of games, even a part of the open world will actually make a part of the inaccessible vista to make the whole map look a little bigger. However, the Old Man Ring has no prospects, and they are all maps that can be explored, allowing players to truly experience free exploration.
The only thing I think is a pity is that there is no CG at the beginning of Elden Ring, but the background story is described through the picture switch that is jokingly called PPT by players. This form is not bad, but look at the previous three parts of the soul series, bloodline, only wolves have very good quality CG has been watched repeatedly, and the classic "yes, indeed" at the beginning of Black Soul Three has become a line engraved into the DNA of many people. In comparison, the broadcast of the old man's ring is a bit weak. And Elden Ring's boss battle repertoire is not as impressive as before, Soul 1's A major, Gwen, Soul 3's principal, Black Dragon. Whenever they listened, they recalled the joy they had when they cleared the level and the hardships they had endured before. In the case of the old man's ring, the experience is much weaker.

Plot: ★★★★ ☆ (9)

The plot of Elden Ring this time is relatively easy to understand, and most people can roughly understand what kind of story is happening in this world as long as they clear the level, and it will not be as obscure as the plot of the Dark Souls series. I've given more than half of the old man's ring here, but it's still a little story about the old man's ring plot or a good brother in the clouds, and vividly tell the story of the old man's ring.

The narrow land is like a colonized land, and the supreme consciousness is the boss who bought this colony. And the ring is the right to use this land, and the big rune is the title deed. The boss consciously sent two teams of his own people to guide the development of the colony, which is two fingers and three fingers. The holders of the Great Rune were small indigenous chieftains who had won the title deeds in their own right. And the king of Elden is the indigenous leader who has more land deeds, and they are the unified leaders elected by all the natives, responsible for directly communicating with the boss to lead them.

As for why they say the golden rule, in fact, the golden rule is that the two fingers were first enveloped by more small leaders, and he defined the golden rule as the center, and the golden rule is the truth. Back then, if the three fingers had won, it might have been that everything was centered on madness, and the golden rule was abnormal.
The endings are divided into three categories, and the Golden Rule is still observed, but the big bosses are different, such as the hidden, ordinary, dead sleep, and legal endings.Felt that the supreme consciousness of this boss was too dark now, so he went to contact another boss and asked him to take over the colony. This is the ending of the stars.Even if I self-destruct and destroy the land, I won't let you enslave us anymore. This is the end of madness.

So all in all, the overall story line of Elden Ring is actually very clear. In the fragmented plot of the previous Souls series, item descriptions accounted for 40% of the entire game's plot, and the plot of the game itself only accounted for 40%. However, in Elden Ring, item descriptions are no longer an important part of the plot, but have become supplements and explanations of the plot. Even if you only play the whole game, you rarely study the item description, and your understanding of the whole story will not be too much off.

Gameplay Creativity: ★★★ ☆ (8.5)

First of all, I'd like to raise the first big question: the clash between the open world and the Souls battle mode itself. I think the Souls-based game was actually born out of Metroidvania, and many people also call Black Souls the 3D version of Silver Evil. In fact, this also illustrates a problem, the soul class itself should be a mechanism that is strongly bound to the linear, because he requires the producer to have an accurate judgment of the player's growth curve, what kind of props the player can get here, how strong is the most, how weak is the weakest, and where to arrange what kind of strength monsters should be appropriate. This is why there are a lot of low-level 0 enhancement quick kill videos in the previous Soul series, because the value itself is relatively balanced.
But this is an open world, and you can't control where the player wants to go, and it's hard to predict. So Hidetaka Miyazaki did two things. The first point is that he divides the reinforcement materials into a very detailed one, with ordinary reinforcement materials being one category for every three levels, and each level of reinforcement materials for special weapons being a different category. Instead of having only a few categories before, where you were limited by quantity, now you can limit your level of enhancement by where you go.
The second point is to strengthen the RPG nature of the game, and the mobs in the later stage can beat the boss in the early stage at will, and players can only be crushed by the value when they encounter this kind of monster.

The second big issue I'd like to raise is the conflict between the huge map itself and the monster design. The huge map of the old man's ring has become a shortcoming at this time, and you have to put some monsters on such a large map, but compared to the huge map, the types of monsters are actually far from enough. Note,I'm talking about comparing the size of the map.,There are not enough types of monsters.,Actually, there are quite a few types of monsters in the old man's ring.。 Faced with this problem, Hidetaka Miyazaki came up with two more solutions. The first is reuse, large-scale reuse of ordinary monster models. The second is that the mob should be once, the elite monster should be once, and the boss will come again.

Summary: ★★★★ ☆ (9.5)
Although I have complained about so many old man's rings, I still think that he is indeed a good game, he may not be a good game in the usual sense of the word, and it cannot be compared with those real god-level games with the same score, but it is definitely a good game.