Elden Ring - Stormveil Castle #1

This is a clip from my gameplay footage of 2022's popular video game "Elden Ring" on Playstation 4.

If you're unfamiliar with "Elden Ring", here's some quick info:

[GAMEPLAY] In Elden Ring, players control a customizable player character on a journey to repair the Elden Ring and become the new Elden Lord. The game is presented through a third-person perspective, with players freely roaming its interactive open world. Gameplay elements include combat using several types of weapons and magic spells, horseback riding, and crafting. (Wikipedia)

[STORY] Elden Ring takes place in the Lands Between, a fictional landmass ruled over by several demigods. It was previously ruled over by the immortal Queen Marika, who acted as keeper of the Elden Ring, a powerful force that manifested as the physical concept of order. When Marika eventually shattered the Elden Ring and disappeared, her demigod children began warring over pieces of the Ring in an event called the Shattering. Each demigod possesses a shard of the Ring called a Great Rune, which corrupts them with power. In the game, the player character is a Tarnished, one of a group of exiles from the Lands Between who are summoned back after the Shattering. As one of the Tarnished, the player must traverse the realm to repair the Elden Ring and become the Elden Lord. (Wikipedia)

• After defeating Margit Fell Omen who was guarding the entrance to Stormveil Castle, I was finally able to get inside.

• Within you meet a strange servant or slave who offers you a choice between storming the front-gates or taking a side route which he recommends.

• Having completed the side route and finally opened the front gate from within, I'm not sure what would've been easier.

• The sideroute can be confusing and there's a bunch of traps and difficult to maneuver passages.

• There was even a dark tiny room where I had to fight a knight that could do whirlwind attacks. Unfortunately that may have been before I lantern I could wear on my waist.

• After completing the sideroute and opening the front gate, I ran into a rather large enemy -- not even a boss, but still rather deadly. In short, they killed me and I had to kill a few more enemies all over again.

• I respawn at the Site of Grace in a room near the wheel that opens the front gate. Before I pressed record I'd gotten hit by some kind of ballista that fires multiple bolts which took maybe a fourth of my life.

• Luckily I sprinted outside and their next three shots narrowly missed me as I made my way up to them.

• Running up the stairs I found my 4 culprits and returned the favor by throwing some bolts of my own at them. The last guy was a little tricky because of the angle of me firing my magic upward.

• While grabbing some loot from the other enemies bodies, a dude with a sword ambushes me from behind and starts hacking away at my health!

• Thankfully I tumble away, reorient myself and finish him off with my Estoc thrusting sword.

• I heal myself twice and refill my FP (magic bar) while watching another dude downstairs make his way up toward me. Once he's withing range, I charge up a Lightning Spear and let him have it.

• Going down, I sneak up on some other soldiers and switch to a Black Flames fireball so that the explosion kills multiple enemies.

• When I go down to loot their bodies I get attacked by this airbending swordsman but manage to kill him.

• Seeing more opponents up the hill from me, I switch to Flame Frenzy and let my madness rain down on them.

• It hits most of them but there's still quite a few left. I try to launch another Flame Frenzy incantation spell but get interrupted by a bunch of arrows and a deadly axe to the face that almost kills me.

• Thankfully one of my Talisman items -- Blue Feathered Branchsword -- activates, upping my defense since my health is low.

• I reply with a quick and deadly Lightning Spear.

• Being riddled with arrows and low on health, I retreat to a side of the hill and hide behind a tree to heal. Elden Ring is full of obstacles and objects to hide behind but sometimes these can be a lot more fragile than they look and destroyed by enemies.

• After healing I run back up the hill and take down the rest of the archers while being riddled with more arrows.

• Once they bowman are dead I go after some nearby gatemen but launch my Flame frenzy from too far away and get tripled stabbed but survive and finish them off.

• I heal again, loot the dead, and make my way toward the enemy that killed me last time -- even gesturing a hello to them as I creep toward my fallen runes.

• Funnily enough, my fallen runes lay right near the giant bladed lion so I have to wait for him to move out of the way.

• I shower him with Lightning Spears since they'refast and have good range but this lion realy keeps the pressure up and does not rent at all except for a short pause after jump attacks.

• I'm nearly killed a few times but my Blue Feathered Branchsword talisman leaves a little bit of health to run away. (It's signified by that transparent orb around my torso when my health is low).

• When the bladed lion's health is low enough I heal my health and magic and try to launch a dragon spell that does magic damage but he interrupts it.

• Were both super low on health so I launch the same dragon magic-breath attack again and we manage to kill each other at the same time -- but their death counts as a victory and I get items before I die.

• Hope you enjoyed this video and post!

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• See you on the next post of my Elden Ring adventure!