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Re:Elden Ring Succeeds by Ignoring 20 Years of Open-World De... by KptMarchewa on Friday April 01, 2022 @04:55PM (#30883222)
>In soulslike games, it's expected that your hand isn't going to be held and you might blindly walk into areas for which you're severely under equipped.

Game even goes out of it's way to place Sellia Crystal Tunnel teleporter extremely close to start point if you immediately start going east.

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Re:Elden Ring Succeeds by Ignoring 20 Years of Open-World De... by lagmos on Friday April 01, 2022 @08:33PM (#30884779)
Yeah. Getting teleported was almost the first thing that happened to me in the game. Way befor getting a horse
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Re:Elden Ring Succeeds by Ignoring 20 Years of Open-World De... by andrewingram on Friday April 01, 2022 @09:41PM (#30885146)
What I like about the game is that once you’ve been down a path once, you can usually repeat it without stopping to fight or getting hurt. That cave is a prime example, it only takes about 10 seconds to get from the place you get trapped to the site of Grace once you know where it is.
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