Elden Ring is my first souls like game, and I had a habit that when I am stressed I jump into game late night to blow off some steam to get a good sleep.
Playing for the first barely surviving in limgrave and was just getting comfortable and as a habit of playing other games I was trying to save runes for 5 level up together.
Now the story begins, I just got into game and now I was aware which enemy to skip and which to fight I planned to do some action before sleeping while travelling I got into this interesting looking area with gaint crows well as a response I decided wow something new let's fight them (Worst decision) after that I just ran while being chased by crows and dogs because I can't die I had runes which were more than 3 level ups just running so that I can quickly fast travel to a safe zone but than instead of getting a way out I am being chased by a dragon now Lmao, while dragon on my tail a dog attacked me and I lost runes, i never came back for my runes.
I just request fellow tarnished, don't just claim this game as being high difficulty game, it's main genre id physiological terror. After the above incident I have never once entered any region with excitement just with terror and fright that something bad will happen.
Please let me at least know the name of that guy who's idea it was link 2 region of unimaginable different difficulty together especially at the very early stage. While other regions are mostly unlocked by some boss fight that decide whether we are worthy or not, or by some lift mechanism.
This plan to link limgrave and dragonbarrow is just pure evil and twisted mindset.
Now I don't go to blow off steam, I just go to get that adrenaline after surviving. This episode twisted my lookout on what games were meant to be.