Elden Ring’s Giant Land Octopus Shows Players They Need Brains Over Brawn

Elden Ring is continually celebrated for everything it offers as an open-world action-RPG with FromSoftware’s beloved brand of Souls elements. Elden Ring didn’t necessarily reinvent the wheel when it came to producing an open world, but how it recontextualized Souls formula features into one is phenomenal, bringing a lot of what fans love about Dark Souls or Bloodborne to a much wider environment for exploration. Because Elden Ring doesn’t leash players to any one path and there are only minimal restrictions on progression in any region of its Lands Between, the open world can be incredibly overwhelming to trek.