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Apologies that this has been a quiet week for the blog. Despite having a long weekend due to the holiday, I did not manage to provide the backlog of content I had desired. As such, the Elden Ring series will begin on Monday, and I will start to try and change the podcast posts to Fridays rather than Saturdays. I am also going to try and change our podcast to being closer to once a week, though the schedule will inevitably be loose due to the busy lives of adults with day jobs.

Trying to keep myself focused on a select handful of games has, admittedly, been rather difficult. It’s not necessarily due to a shortage of good games, however. In any other year, I’d have likely completed many of the titles that currently sit unfinished on my physical and digital game shelves. Instead, all of the games are good, but Elden Ring has sort of taken over as that perfect title for me to just fall into and relax with. That may seem odd given the game’s reputation and the occasional deaths here and there, but the open-world truly is a masterfully assembled series of environments, keeping me engaged in ways that most open-world games do not. I will, of course, be going into greater detail on Monday, but it really isn’t as simple as “engaging with the world”, though that’s a good chunk of it. Despite hardly being new or revolutionary, there really is no open-world like Elden Ring.

I hope to also have something focused on Masters of Doom next week, as it was a truly delightful book to go through. I also aim to make more time for the latest Monster Hunter Rise expansion and Fire Emblem Warriors: Three Hopes. It will just require some willpower to step away from Elden Ring.

What have you been playing lately? What do you enjoy in an open-world game? Feel free to leave a comment below or send us an e-mail with your opinions.

Opening theme music by Fallen Prophecy.