Elden Ring Nightreign

Elden Ring Nightreign is another glorious gem from FromSoftware. It is a different flavor of Elden Ring and requires more effort due to limited time for each in-game expedition. It is worth mentioning that this is not a Rouge-like or even Rouge-lite. It is a cooperative action roleplaying game with randomization elements.

This game is incredibly underrated and a whole lot of fun. I had my doubts before its release, but after playing it, I realized how unjustified they were. The 8 Nightfares (characters) are sick, especially Wylder, Ironeye and Raider for me. All of them suit a different playstyle and have unique skills that are fun to use. The regular Limveld map looks somewhat like a copy, but it also contains enough new elements. The Shifting Earth maps are the highlight for me. They offer much new content (especially Noklateo), they are useful in terms of loot and really fun to explore. Occasionally, events happen during an expedition such as boss invasions - in total they are well made. Unlike in normal Elden Ring, legendary weapons are actually stronger than non-legendary weapons, as they all possess cool and unique extras (e.g. enhanced charged heavy attack) and they have the best stats. - gameplay is fast, action-loaded and feels great - both playing solo and in a team is perfectly viable - character stories are decent - the Relics system is ok - some talismans, (ranged!) weapons or passive buffs that you find completely ****, but it's a roguelike - respawn points make no sense sometimes and it can make you very mad - some important numbers are not displayed (e.g. Relic stats numbers, current Damage Negation, passive weapon buffs numbers) and it doesn't say if certain buffs stack with each other - kinda crazy in a competitive game like this where basically every decision matters - there should be a proper results screen where you see the damage dealt, deaths, rescues and so on for each player (at least for the Nightlord fight) - the game doesn't tell you which buffs stack with each other or if they even work on that character Bosses: > field bosses: Most of them are these no-name bosses from Elden Ring that can easily be copied without interfering with Elden Rings lore so it can get repetitive after tens of hours.Some of them are fun to fight even after 200h for me (- e.g. Darth Vader aka. Bell Bearing Hunter, Godskins, Hippo, Tree Avatar, Tree Sentinel, Magma Wyrm) and some are just these annoying / hard to hit / constantly running away trash bosses (- e.g. Revenant, Nights Cavalry, Red Wolf, Black Knife Assassin, Ancestor Spirit, ..). > end of day bosses: Similiar for them but with additions from older FromSoftware games bosses. - Good examples - Nameless King, Dancer, Fell Omen (with new moves), Grafted Monarch (with new moves), Gaping Dragon - Bad examples - Freja, Nights Cavalry Duo, Wormface, Tibia Mariner, Revenant. > Nightlords: The good stuff. 8 entirely new bosses with sick visuals, sick soundtracks, sick soundeffects and sick arenas. - Peak: Heolstor, Libra, Fulghor - Good: Caligo, Gladius, Adel - Mid: Gnoster, Maris > Everdark versions: Starting with phase 2 and adding a new phase 3. - Peak: Fulghor, Adel, Gladius, Caligo - Mid: Maris, Libra, Gnoster My first Night Aspect expedition (Heolstor) at midnight was probably one my best moments I've had playing a video game. First time exploring and clearing Noklateo, first time encountering Nameless King in this game and first time fighting Heolstor - seeing him literally opening the sky in his phase transition & cooking me with his phase 2 attacks. HOLY PEAK! Very memorable. Also, Darth Vader in the castles basement literally getting hit by a fully charged Wylder ult and continues casually walking towards you with red eyes. Bro might have aura. Deep of Night:First off, this was a free update just like the Everdark Sovereign updates. Still, this has major flaws and caused many people to hate on this game and leaving bad reviews. I think it's cool to have a fully randomized ranked mode to express skill levels and being able to exclusively get matched with players on your skill level. BUT at Depth 5 (highest difficulty) you literally get one shot by everything - sometimes even with Damage Negation stacked up. In trio this isn't the biggest problem (this gamemode is pretty well balanced for trio) but in solo this gamemode is morally wrong bruh. Besides that, when I played to 9999 Points (maximum) I lost 2 games out of around 20 - I lost 600 points for each loss whereas I only got 200 Points for each win. This is extremely demotivating. I genuinly was about to quit despite having an insane win streak before the loss. Also, this gamemode killed my old main Raider. Now with everything done in this game (beating every possible boss; completing every Nightfarers Remembrance quest; buying everything that can be bought; encountering every event or invasion / claiming every power at least once; reaching Depth 5 and 9999 Points; clearing the entire DLC with all it's content), I'll probably stop playing for now. Hopefully the DLC wasn't the last thing they will ever add to this game. All in all it's a peak game that I had a lot of fun spending many hours in.