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Shadow of the Erdtree reintroduced me to Elden Ring by kicking my ass


The Tarnished never falls far from the Erdtree.

By the time I remembered what those bloodstains meant and the imminent danger I was in, I was ripped to shreds by a man I did not see or hear coming, leaving behind a new little blood puddle to mark the occasion. Most of my time with the DLC has been wrapped up in exploring Belurat, Tower Settlement, one of the legacy dungeons that dot the map that game director Hidetaka Miyazaki described as being as big as Elden Ring ’s Limgrave. I used one of the game’s summons, called up my Mimic Tear ally, and stayed back, pelting the boss with the hardest working damage spell in the Lands Between: the Glintstone Pebble.

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