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Elden Ring DLC steals The Witcher's crown as best-reviewed RPG expansion, and CDPR gives its blessing


The Witcher developer CD Projekt Red – which long held the record for the best-reviewed RPG expansion for Blood and Win…

The Witcher developer CD Projekt Red – which long held the record for the best-reviewed RPG expansion for Blood and Wine – has congratulated FromSoftware for its "stellar work". "Despite its strange dispersion of 'active' areas, and uncharacteristically infantilising hand-holding for encounters that should be learned through repeated failure, Shadow still has its share of Elden Ring's brilliance – weird little dudes and obscure secrets and goofy cheesing and all. But perhaps trying to combine the inherent focus of a largely self-contained DLC, with the narrative flexibility and open-world freedom of Elden Ring – the concept that set it apart from its Souls brethren – was always going to make for an incongruous match."

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