But the fatigue I've experienced is not one I've felt for a single-player game since my ill-fated attempt to find Red Dead Redemption 2 interesting. It's everything I could have wanted from a follow-up to Soulsborne. Breath of the Wild: OutlookĮlden Ring is probably the best video game I've ever played. Breath of the Wild? I'm already well on my way to that benchmark. While I'm perfectly capable of devoting that much time to a single-player game, such as I did for Cyberpunk 2077, I struggle to foresee myself doing the same for Elden Ring. But when I hear about people putting 100+ hours into Elden Ring, my heart drops. Sister Friede in Dark Souls 3 alone has counted for several. Like I said, I've put hundreds of hours into FromSoftware games. However, Breath of the Wild is a much more relaxed experience for me and I find myself preferring it over the constant weight of Elden Ring. I won't deny that I'm generally burnt out and perhaps that might have something to do with my Elden Ring fatigue. When I think about Elden Ring, once the irrational guilt for not playing subsides, I only want to play Breath of the Wild - if I want to play a video game at all. Since I never finished Breath of the Wild way back when, I'm excited to find more towers and explore things that look so far distant.
Elden Ring feels like a huge time investment, especially since my exploration thus far has amounted to more duds than treasures. I can pick it up, mess around, save, and put my Switch to sleep.
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Part of why is that I can play on my Switch in my living room while my wife watches TV versus me playing on my PC in the basement.īut the game feels much more approachable than Elden Ring. Meanwhile, Breath of the Wild has captured my attention again. I love Elden Ring, but even after a two-week break, I cannot imagine myself going back to it. Elden Ring feels like a huge time investment, especially since my exploration thus far has amounted to more duds than treasures.įurthermore, I grew distressed by what was obviously burnout. Every time I thought about loading back into the Lands Between, my heart sank.īreath of the Wild feels much more approachable than Elden Ring. I was so fatigued that I couldn't make myself turn on my PC to play the game. So imagine my shock and even unease when I started to figure out that Elden Ring left me positively exhausted. Getting to a bonfire or a lantern is an absolute godsend, a chance to let out that breath I'd been holding while my health and healing items slowly dwindled. I love Dark Souls 3 and Bloodborne, so I'm used to how the Soulsborne games don't let up. I've loved every FromSoftware game since Demon's Souls (go to hell, Flamelurker) and I've cleared each one since multiple times. Breath of the Wild looks more lighthearted with a very Nintendo-style design. While we can chalk up some artistic differences to Breath of the Wild needing to run on the criminally underpowered Switch (and not very well at that), Elden Ring adopts a grimmer, grittier tone, even with the golden Erdtree shining in the distance. Elden Ring asks no such thing of you.īut these two games differ wildly in presentation.
Breath of the Wild even throws temperature extremes at you, with Link needing special equipment to survive the cold peaks, the hot Gerudo Desert or the fiery air of Death Mountain. You will find that you quickly die in either instance. Both games give you a massive world to explore and drop you into the deep end with naught but a halfhearted wish for good luck.
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