ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN

Three hours with this helped me accept it's not co-op Elden Ring

- Morgan Park

Elden Ring Nightreign clicked the moment I hit level 2. My squad had just dropped into the game's remixed version of Limgrave. I was a bird man named Guardian, and all I had to know about Guardian is he's really good at blocking. We dropped 100 feet onto a camp of soldiers, sliced them up in seconds, and bee-lined toward a site of grace to level up.

The From Software leveling experience is one reason why I like Souls games, but don't love them. Agonizing over where to dump points into stats to make meters slightly longer isn't my idea of satisfying progression, so when I touched a site of grace in Nightreign and watched my stats automatically increase according to my character's specialties, I thought, "This rules, and it's gonna piss some people off."