I defeated the final boss in Elden Ring's latest DLC XD

Oddly, not this guy

What a masterpiece this whole game has been. Nobody needs me to say it. We all know it. So I won't go into it. But everyone should play it.

But the new DLC was quite controversial because it has a requirement to defeat a certain boss, Mohg, who had only up until that point been defeated by a paltry 37% of total players because he was just too difficult. Only then can you can get yourself transported to the new content. If you can't do that, well, you're screwed.

If you can do that, you get rewarded with what is likely the greatest DLC a game has ever conjured up. Practically an entirely new game itself, the DLC is gargantuan, and I've spent an absolute ton of time eating away at it.

The DLC started off so difficult that it caused massive complaints and, unfortunately, the developers gave in and updated to make it easier. This sucked for me. It was really noticeable, and impossible bosses that needed time and dedication to overcome just became... trivial. Mosquitoes to be wafted aside.

The latter bosses retained their difficulty, however, and the final boss... oh dear god. Has anyone on Hive actually done this guy?

Suffice it to say...

Mother f***er this was a feckin nightmare

Over what I guess was a couple of weeks or so, I took this boss on over and over again, hours at a time, day after day, to no avail. Was my character just built wrong this whole time?? Surely not - I was breezing through everything else!

But, not to be too stubborn, I re-jiggled my characters stats and gear, I learnt new skills, I googled strategies.

I got absolutely nowhere.

After f*** knows how long, I managed to beat the first of two phases, and after remembering an old element of my character - a pokey sword with two types of poison imbued into it I combined it with my main frostbitey sword and it was eventually enough to defeat the f***er.

Not really anything to be proud of, I mostly just mastered its moveset after so many repetitions.

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU**

My heart was racing, hands shaking. I felt like Eminem in the opening to Lose Yourself. This is what Elden Ring is all about

But, it was finally over.

In hindsight, I was actually pretty dumb. There's these fragments you can find around the world map that vastly strengthen your character. In total you can upgrade 20 levels of it, while I only had 16... I really could have just gotten those 4 more and it would have been so much easier. Ah well lol.

What Next?

Well, the game doesn't end here, this is DLC so really it was just side content. But I have basically finished the game. The only thing that's left is to catch up on the Lore.

This game is gargantuan with hundreds of hours of videos on YouTube uncovering and explaining the vast lore that built the world in which you preside. There is a 5,000 year history of the world created by George R R Martin (the Game of Thrones guy). This is merely to set up the land before you even step foot in it.

You spend much of the game traversing through ancient ruins, finding revealing items, interacting with opaque characters and so forth, all of which only offer clues to what the place is all about.

Why are there ghostly gravestones everywhere? What's with the golden tree? Why is it seemingly covered in sheets? Whose castle is that? Are they fresh green trees on top of those cliffs? What's with the creepy dead trees?

Over time with enough dedication, people online have managed to stitch all the clues across the land together to create an immense narrative of Gods, Tragedy, War, Love, Deception, Blasphemy, Madness, and so much more.

In fact, I think watching the videos studiously is a significant part of the experience of the game.

So to those who say 'I don't like games', thus arbitrarily forcing themselves out of one of the greatest mediums of art that exist, I pity you. You'll never get to appreciate the masterpiece that is Elden Ring.

And to all the other game developers, yeah... do better lol.