{"id":6354,"date":"2026-10-08T10:27:16","date_gmt":"2026-10-08T09:27:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/?p=6354"},"modified":"2026-10-08T10:28:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-08T09:28:53","slug":"elden-39-hours-and-39-minutes-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/?p=6354","title":{"rendered":"Elden Ring: 39 hours and 39 minutes in"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Level 35 Wretch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With a staff, spells, a magical sword and undead militia men and wolves that can be summoned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Margit The Fell Omen, the enemy that can kill you with just one hit when you meet him too early, is toast after only three attempts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ER_Margit_Boss.webp\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ER_Margit_Boss-1024x576.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6353\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ER_Margit_Boss-1024x576.webp 1024w, https:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ER_Margit_Boss-300x169.webp 300w, https:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ER_Margit_Boss-768x432.webp 768w, https:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ER_Margit_Boss-1536x864.webp 1536w, https:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/ER_Margit_Boss.webp 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grind long enough and the bosses that are a problem in the early hours of the game become easy enough to slay.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Exploring Stormveil Castle still is challenging enough at level 35, but absolutely doable &#8211; and, dare I say it, atmospheric, interesting and even fun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Switch 2 turned out to be the perfect platform to play this game, both in docked and handheld mode.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The game looks great on the Switch 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And the performance is also great on this tiny device that consumes less than 10% of the power the PS5 or the Xbox Series X consume; and an Nvidia RTX 5090 requires more than 57 (!) times the power of the Switch 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Keep that math in mind when you judge Nintendo&#8217;s little console.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In those 39 hours and 39 minutes, there simply were not stutters or noticeable frame drops on the Switch 2. None.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Still, I will NEVER recommend this game to anybody, especially not to casual gamers who just want to experience some relaxing entertainment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Elden Ring is demanding, punishing and more often than not also very frustrating.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">And yet, it is also addictive and it has a pull that totally immerses you into its brutal and quite literally insane world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You have been warned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Level 35 Wretch. With a staff, spells, a magical sword and undead militia men and wolves that can be summoned. Margit The Fell Omen, the enemy that can kill you with just one hit when you meet him too early, is toast after only three attempts. Grind long enough and the bosses that are a &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/?p=6354\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Elden Ring: 39 hours and 39 minutes in&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games","category-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6354"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6356,"href":"https:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6354\/revisions\/6356"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wmaus.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}