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IcaroRibeiro on 29 June 2023
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zeldaring said:
IcaroRibeiro said:

I find the story fantastic too. It's very Martin-like, it's basically family soap opera drama with demigods, really screams A Song of Ice and Fire to me. I don't find it hard to understand at all, you just need to patiently talk to NPCs and out the pieces together 

But I agree many NPC quests are impossible to do without a guide. First because you don't how how to trigger them, and don't have any update whatsoever about its status. There are way too many of them (I guess more than 20), the odds is that you won't finish more than 5 if you play blindly. I remember I somehow managed to go too far in Rannis quest (the longest of the game imo) playing blindly, but at some point she basically vanished and I never found her again

Then I given up and decided to look for a tutorial, and seems like I needed to go to Hanni's mom, Rennala, chamber, open a chest and get a ring in order to proceed the quest, that's close to impossible to do without looking for a guide, I get they wanted to make things hard, but they should at least give better clues. I did it anyway and got the Hanni's ending, which is my favorite ending so it was worth it

Yea the NPC problem is not that bad in small open world game like blooborne/sikero but in a massive open world game it's a problem, and really some guided quests could have added more to the story/characters and gameplay  variety.

As for the story even when watching videos i still struggle to explain it to someone. The fingers, the Erdtree and why am i'm  killing these demigods lol. I guess i just think of it like this, the queen used the Elden ring  powers to remove death and that  ended up making the world a living hell and its your job to get the elden ring and restore the world to normal order i guess.

I think one of the worst offenders is you cannot get some texts more than one time. Sometime the NPC gives you clues about the quests and History and if miss them puff, it's gone. It's so unforgiving, I love it lol 

Basically, you're a tarnished. One of the ones who lost the Grace of the Eldtree and banished from the lands in between. The NPCs you find on the round table hold, the hub of the game, lead by Gideon are almost all tarnished like Rogier, Fia, Roderika, etc

The demigods are the bearers of the fragments of the Elden Ring. After Queen Marika, the Eternal, got crazy because her first son and heir, prince Godwyn, The Golden, was murdered she broken the Elden Ring. Because of that nobody can die anymore. Your mission as a tarnished is to beat the bearers of the rings, some of them being Marika children, and to become the Elden Lord, which is kind of the consort of Queen Marika, and restore the world. 

The fingers are manifestation of the will of the outer gods, there many of them and each of them wants a different thing for the lands in between. The 2 fingers specifically are manifestation of the Great Will, one of the demigods which wants to restore queen Marika as the ruler of the lands. Many of the side quests of the game is to swore allegiance to other factions/gods, which can lead to alternative endings

Last edited by IcaroRibeiro - on 29 June 2023