Recent reviews by Yo Boi Syn

GG Jagoff.

Been a Premier sub since 2021, that they even asking if they should make tired subs made me cancel my sub and I wont be coming back. Even hinting at an ad free more expensive sub or requiring a membership teir for security features that in my opinion should be a legal requirement to be offered for free to any service in todays day is a disgrace. If I see any service do that, I immediately leave. Walk it back as far as you want, I will never even look at you if i even hear you even thought about it.

"Majority of time was either on Mobile or Runelite which I couldn't get to track on steam on my deck properly."

GG Jagoff.

Been a Premier sub since 2021, that they even asking if they should make tired subs made me cancel my sub and I wont be coming back. Even hinting at an ad free more expensive sub or requiring a membership teir for security features that in my opinion should be a legal requirement to be offered for free to any service in todays day is a disgrace. If I see any service do that, I immediately leave. Walk it back as far as you want, I will never even look at you if i even hear you even thought about it.

"Majority of time was either on Mobile or Runelite which I couldn't get to track on steam on my deck properly."

So much more fun not being a live service game.

Removing Linux support after taking money from the players that play on the platform.

If your framerate drops too low it kicks you from the game. Have been disconnected multiple times in the same dungeon because of random frame drops that don't even make the game unplayable. That the game even monitors your FPS to decide if you're allowed to play is a joke. Oh well, saves me money.

The ultimate edition doesn't come with all the content, if I could refund I would. Definitely wont be purchasing future games, even if I love the series. Bad business practices cost customers.

Thanks for showing your true colors and irreversiblely destroying your reputation. Can't wait to see your company go under and laugh because you would rather leave steam and go to epic so you can shill out to the crypto bros that will lose their investment if they're dumb enough to invest in your game.

With base game Elden Ring the game was fun, felt relatively balanced (if you didn't use a guide to make the most min maxed build possible to cheese the game), and was a blast to play. Shadow of the Erdtree, well that's another story.

While I loved the set pieces, continued world building, and all the new weapons and spells they added, the actual content was poorly made and designed. The bosses and elites are a slog to get through, with constantly extending combos you have to endure that feel like they keep getting longer, and longer just to be able to get one or 2 attacks in, just to have to sit through another 8-10 second combo to do another 1 or 2 hit while only doing a sliver of damage each time. I'm at the second to last boss and I haven't had fun with almost any of the bosses aside from maybe the boi with the firey spear (tho even some of his combos were a bit much).

This DLC feels like it relies way too heavily on using some massive damaging meta builds to be fun and that in turn takes the fun away from people that just wanna be able to use casual builds without having to lookup builds on the internet.

In it's currently state I can't recommend the DLC for people that just want more of what the base game was. I'm just hoping this isn't the direction that future FromSoft souls-like titles take, because if this is how they are going to artificially inflate the difficulty by just making bosses attack faster and longer with less and less opportunities to attack I really don't want to support lazy design like that. At a point raising difficulty will only have diminishing returns and will start to make cool flashy fights boring.

I can't use save states on Critical mode if I want these achievements.

Is actually fun after the story unlike D4.
Doesn't take a PHD to play without a guide like POE.
Second to none crafting system.
Tons of build choice without being overwhelming.
Has an in-game glossary that explains everything about the game.
Fully offline mode that has mechanics to supplement trading that is also available online to help SSF players.
They know what the fans wanted because they were the fans.