

The pitch for Ghost of Tsushima makes it sound like an Assassin's Creed game. Elden Ring could conceivably keep you busy for dozens of hours, so if it sounds interesting, now is the best time to get started. You can level up your character any way you see fit, and outfit him or her with a variety of inspired gear.

But the flip side is that the combat is beautifully precise, and encourages you to build up your skills and strategies over time. Bosses can kill you in one or two hits, and regular foes need only three or four. Like other FromSoftware games, Elden Ring is incredibly difficult. You play as an adventurer called a Tarnished, on a deadly quest to defeat four demigods and reconstruct a powerful artifact called the Elden Ring.

Instead of a series of open-ended levels, Elden Ring takes place in a huge open world, with tons of optional areas to explore and secrets to discover. Between the Yokohama Liumang and a mysterious "handyman" of Yokohama, Jin Kuwana, Yagami is thrust into the fight of his life to see justice prevail.Elden Ring is a spiritual successor to the Dark Souls series, with roughly the same moment-to-moment gameplay, but a very different structure. As the cases begin to converge, a shocking pattern of abuse and deception comes into focus, and Yagami finds himself in a winding conspiracy leading to the most nefarious parts of the Japanese underworld. To stay on campus and investigate further, Yagami takes on the role of a club advisor for the school’s Mystery Research Club in hopes of finding connnections to Mikoshiba’s past and to the recent bullying incidents. During the sentencing, he reveals the identity of a body found in an abandoned building in Yokohama: Hiro Mikoshiba, who bullied Ehara’s son to suicide four years ago. Meanwhile, his former coworkers from Genda Law Office, defense lawyers Saori Shirosaki and Issei Hoshino have just wrapped up the case of one Akihiro Ehara, found guilty of groping a woman on a crowded train. Still partnered with former yakuza turned detective Masaharu Kaito, a new case takes him to investigate the bullying occuring at a Yokohama high school, Seiryo High.

The former lawyer and private detective Takayuki Yagami returns two years after the resolution of The Mole Serial Killings. Takayuki Yagami Played By: Takuya Kimura | English Voice Actor: Greg Chun
