First Impressions of Elden Ring Nightreign
While we’re not quite popular enough to receive early access to games, based on what we’ve seen so far, our first impression is that Elden Ring: Nightreign feels like a fusion of Elden Ring and Tribes of Midgard—and yes, we love that. Much like Tribes of Midgard, the game begins with a fight against major bosses as the time limit runs out, and instead of a shrinking barrier, the playable area contracts due to weather effects. Also similar to TOM, progression allows you to unlock skills that carry over into later gameplay. Early on, you might focus on building up your core abilities before diving into boss battles. The way you enhance your build through skill acquisition ultimately determines how much of a threat you become in the game.
Elden Ring Nightreign Basics
Elden Ring Nightreign has everything you loved about the first title plus so much more. If you’re like most gamers, then Limgrave was your favorite part of the original Elden Ring. The open world area gives you so much space to explore that it’s hard not to fall in love with it.
All of Elden Ring Nightreign takes place in that area, which is now christened Limveld. The entire region is procedurally generated, which means the game uses a sophisticated form of artificial intelligence to constantly give you new content. That makes the single-player mode worth playing, though there’s a good chance you’re going to spend most of your time playing cooperatively.
Three players can join a team to take on a final boss. They’re given three in-game days to prepare before they have to face a truly wicked entity. Anyone who’s heard of Ishizaki Junya knows that he brings some reall devilshy boss designs to every title he’s ever worked on. As well as the original Elden Ring, Ishizaki worked on the first and third Dark Souls games as well as Bloodborne. Everything from the look of the bosses to the sneaky way they attack shows influences from those other titles.
Rather than feeling derivative, though, Elden Ring Nightreign takes all this inspiration and creates something totally new out of it. Some of these twists are actually quite unexpected. As you fight alongside other players, for instance, you’ll notice that the gameplay area shrinks they way it does in a battle royale title. Each time your team defeats one of the minor bosses that show up at the end of an in-game day, the playing field resets and returns to its original size.
Elden Ring Nightreign Game Semantics
Perhaps the best part of Elden Ring Nightreign is its sheer speed. The first two in-game days only ever take around 15-20 minutes. Whenever the sun is out, you’ll get time to run around enemy camps and loot them. The only puzzles you’re presented with can be solved in 10 seconds or so. Once you get used to the game’s rhythm, you’ll be able to blow through the daylight sessions in almost no time. Leveling up is as easy as hitting a single button.
Even dying isn’t a huge issue in Elden Ring Nightreign. Slashing at the lifeless body of a player is enough to bring them back to life as long as someone in your party is still alive and kicking. You’ll even be able to hop on the back of a spectral bird if you find that the map’s closing circle is about to shut your character in.
That makes it easy to pick up and play Elden Ring Nightreign, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a challenging game. The combination of a strong online multiplayer mode with automatically generated surroundings means that no two playthroughs will ever look alike. As a result, even the most jaded online gamer will keep coming back no matter how many monsters they send to an early digital grave.
Elden Ring Nightreign Conclusion
As a conclusion, we are all in with Elden Ring Nightreign. I’m sure at first, it will be about figuring our your character choice (you should have 3), spend the first 10 play through’s, figuring out your fighting style, and acquiring base buildups to enhance your standard game play. Finally, strategize based on your team, if they seem like they are going off on their own, then prioritize building your build versus trying keep pace with them. Stay tuned for gameplay videos, boss battle tips and walkthroughs.