[STEAM] Elden Ring Nightreign review: A clumsy multiplayer sideshow to the generation’s best RPG

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? Is it the difficulty? Is it the obtuse storytelling? Is it the spectacular worlds that you inch through, getting better and better each time you play?

For every Souls player, it’s one of, or a mix of all of these. Which is why, despite featuring plenty of the tenants of the Souls series, and fleeting moments of a high-stakes multiplayer romp, it’s disappointing that Elden Ring Nightreign recontextualises them in a way that quickly loses the magic, and pushes the limits of Elden Ring’s combat system to breaking point.

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is sublime.

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is even better. My disappointment with Elden Ring Nightreign does not come from a dislike of the genre; on the contrary, the parts I like about the game are the times it feels most like Elden Ring. The issues are numerous, chief among which is that it misunderstands what people flocked to Elden Ring for, and makes puzzling design decisions that result in a rare misstep for FromSoftware.

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