Elden Ring Has No VIT Stat, Very Bad 👎

After an hour of playing this stupidly hard game, I have determined that this is the worst game of From Software's Souls Series.

I was able to participate in a closed test of the game where I started off as the enchanted knight. As a member of the LGBTQIAMNOP+ community I found my enchanted knight fabulous. But something was off. After carefully peering through the stats as I prepped my excel sheet to track my progression, I noticed that there was no Vitality stat. I thought it was just a pre-release mistake.

The VIT stat was the most important improvement to the Souls Series. It helped to balance the game by making it more difficult to make agile tank builds. Who wants to see a ninja flipping knight tumbling towards you to stab you in the back. I'd prefer the knight stab me somewhere else but that's beside the point. The point was that it wasn't fair. How could I "Slay Queen" with these Misogynist Try-Hards harrassing me. Fortunately with Dark souls 2 (my favorite game of the series) they added the VIT stat which made these builds appear more in the late game than early to mid when you're trying to collect souls and level up. They continued this legacy in Dark Souls 3.

But seeing the VIT stat absent is triggering. I'm having flashbacks of the harassment I experienced by toxic male players. Every time I pick up my controller to play Elden Ring I start shaking, I can't handle it. With the final I release I burst into sobbing as I confirmed the VIT stat was gone. Additionally my twink, Enchanted Knight was not an available starting class! Why would they do this to me!

But what can you expect from the Toxic Masculinity found in Video Game development. Overall these games don't promote equity and are a symbol of capitalism and inequality. If the developers were more focused on diversity, social justice, and racial equity, I would probably enjoy the game better.

Elden Ring 3/10

#EldenRingSucks #WorstGame #BadDesign