![]() ![]() Since the character is given no other real ambition other than “mercenary,” the through line of Elderand felt almost like a secondary consideration to “let’s kill a bunch of things.” Every time I met a character who had something to say, it was an information dump of exposition that felt both too much and too little at the same time. My entire play experience might have been better if it hadn’t been for how unimportant the entirety of the plotline felt. ![]() The point is there’s a whole lot to find and do, but not so much that you feel like you can’t do anything. That is to say, you can buy more items and weapons when you find the merchant, but you might not have to if you can ration out health potions and utilize the insta-heal of a campfire in the right amount of time. There’s an exceptionally generous amount of drops in each area to keep you both alive and excited, though the dropped coins are only as important as YOU think they are. It’s got enough in each area to give you an idea of what it all feels like and could be, without mucking you down and having you explore one spot too long. However, there is something to the secret sauce of Elderand, which I think its size and pacing. Yet this task is never as easy as it seems, for a growing group of cultists seek to keep the dark power they’ve harnessed.ĭefinitely a big “screw you” to the ugly spider boss. You now journey to Elderand to fight tooth and nail to restore order and peace. You’ve been hired to take out Sserthris, a malevolent ruler who apparently operates out of a mystical realm that’s beyond the reach of normal people. Your character, a nameless mercenary aboard a doomed ship, must do what they can to rid the land of the evil that now permeates throughout. This title seeks to bring a lot to players, including metrovania style exploration, customization of characters through leveling and stat distribution, tons of weapons to discover, and lots of intense action in the form of a rich variety of grunts, mini bosses, and big baddies. Which brings us to Elderand, a Lovecraftian action RPG that comes to us from new developers, Mantra and Sinergia Games. Abstract storytelling only works to a point. The point is, a lot of people seemed to think this film was utter genius and, while I agree some of the shots are excellent, I feel that my overall confusion over whatever the hell the point was detracted from the experience. When all was said and done, a power drill seems to have fixed everything by fixing nothing, and I’m reminded why I generally distrust black and white films made after 1960. A bunch of weird things happen, like Jewish underground groups, people from government agencies threatening harmless protagonists, and a brain on the steps of a subway. Anyone ever seen Pi ? The debut film from Darren Aronofsky, this movie supposedly tracks the mental decline of a gifted mathematician who seems to see and experience pi everywhere. ![]()
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