Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree

It’s a magnificent piece of art, and does exactly what a DLC should do: accents the main game without feeling out of balance with the original’s level of flash, flair and creativity...The characters, landscapes and goals are all impactful in the right way, and truly there’s no other DLC in recent memory that has captured that essence. Devotees of Elden Ring will adore it, and who knows: maybe it will be just the right incentive for folks who haven’t finished the main game to get their characters into gear.

Shadow of the Erdtree is a fitting tribute to Elden Ring and a stunning finale that manages to surprise and shock us all over again. Those who enjoyed the base game will find much more to get their teeth into. This signs off the Elden Ring chapter of FromSoftware’s journey so conclusively and impressively, that it invokes questions about how they will ever top it again.

Shadow of the Tree is a real game in its own right, generous, powerful, with almost perfect execution. It manages to completely separate itself from Elden Ring, with an identity of its own and an extremely careful atmosphere. Despite a somewhat "light" ending and a slight imbalance in terms of bosses, we emerge from this adventure with a feeling of exhilaration specific to great journeys. Yet another monument to be added to the long list of From Software masterpieces, a delight of incredible violence, a definitely enchanting journey. Masterful!

An expansion as complex as Shadow of the Erdtree has no real right to be labeled as a traditional DLC. Two-year long development cycle has spawned another story rich soulslike adventure across the Lands Between, or rather its shadowy counterpart. It is a world truly deprived of grace that unfortunately suffers from a few technical issues too, but it never fails to just simply awe. Prepare to face the hardest From Software bosses to date, explore the most vertically varied biodiverse world and prepare yourself to feel through the sounds of the Shadow Realm.

Shadow of the Edrtree expansion transported me back to Elden Ring in a surprising and nostalgic way. Two years later the game is still fresh as it's ever been - with unique pacing, artistic style and sense of progression. And if you ever stumble upon some annoying sections, you can always count on your fellow Mimic Tear friend.

Shadow Of The Erdtree Is FromSoftware's Victory Lap.

By doubling down on what made the base game so sublime, FromSoftware has crafted an Elden Ring expansion that's just as great as it is familiar. Shadow of the Erdtree delivers more of the same style of content you loved two years ago rather than introducing new ways to engage. That's enough to consider it a fantastic expansion, though it's hard not to feel like you're just going through the motions again. With a new land to explore, a fresh set of bosses to fight, and extra lore to consume, it's so much more Elden Ring.

Aussi bien que le jeu de base, un prolongement digne du GOTY 2022, Monstres et mondes incroyables

İlk girişte her şey çok güzel gelmişti, bitirince o kadar güzel olmadığını fark ettim. Tasarımı her zamanki gibi güzel, ortamlar, düşmanlar falan. Ama düşmanlar sadece ama sadece zor olsun diye yapılmış, başka bir amaçları yok! 3-4 tane Boss sevebildim anca, diğerleri sadece zorlama veya keyifsiz bir deneyimdi. Haritadan hiç memnun değilim. Oyun bütünlüğünü bozmuş, bir yerden giriş yapıyorsun ama taaa haritanın diğer kısmına varıyorsun, saçma olmuş. Haritada bir yere gitmek istedim ve oraya doğru yola çıktım ama bir türlü yolu bulamıyorum, araştırayım dedim bi baktım saçma sapan bir yerden girmem gerekiyormuş. Yani bu keşfimi ve merakımı baya düşürdü.

Somehow the open world is even worse than the base game, with entire areas that are completely useless or empty. The new bosses are cool in terms of design but only a few of them offer actually enjoyable and memorable fights. Also I finished the whole dlc in like 15 hours while completing the major NPCs quest lines and gathering all shadow tree fragments so it really shouldn't have been advertised as a 40+ hours expantion, but to be fair the base game was also set to be somewhat around 100+ hours long for all content and I finished it in half that time so I guess I shouldn't be surprised

Elden Ring is a fantastic game and this is more of it. Like a little more. Like a sliver. Like the hint of a sliver more. If Elden Ring has 140 hours of content about 80 of which are worthy this is 20 hours of content 3 of which are worthy. It's an aggressive difficulty pitch up which maybe is what you're after but it is surprisingly thin in terms of actual content. Wide open spaces but not really enough extra content to be worth more than about a fiver.

The DLC does not match the quality of the base game at all, given the wonky level scaling and the most tedious and unfair boss design ever seen in a Souls game.