GamerBraves Newsletter vol. 33 – How From Software Turned The Obtuseness of Elden Ring Into A Feature, Not A Bug

Elden Ring is out-and its record sales among the From Software pantheon of Souls games show that it’s broken out as the studio’s most mainstream success.

Some could argue the Open World genre-shift helped – people love the genre, as seen by studios like Ubisoft practically being known for the genre and The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild being held as the gold standard of the genre.

Heck, between games like Horizon Forbidden West, Genshin Impact, and Breath of the Wild, there’ve been enough popular Open World games that most people have the rough idea of what comes with an open-world game.

That expectation is what we’re talking about today: Elden Ring and From Software creepily laughs in the face of all of these, creating an open world that’s both rich in exploration while also bucking almost every trend first popularized in Assassin’s Creed 2 back in the days when school counselors were telling me writing a newsletter on video games would never take off and that I should be a doctor instead. Speaking of which, if you’d like to read more about Elden Ring, sign up for our newsletter with your email below (it’s Free!):

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