A quick pose at Gatefront Ruins showing the equipment you could get from defeating enemies there: the Brass Shield and the Godric Knight Armor.
After I was satisfied with my ability to clear the Gatefront Ruins, I then moved on to fighting these enemies on horseback to the east of Gatefront Ruins. I died multiple times as well, until I realized that the weakness of these enemies, is that they are slow to attack. They are also vulnerable to attack while they're trying to turn their horse around. If you charge ahead and hit their horse, you can take down the horse or knock them off their horse, which will cause the enemy to fall down, giving you a chance to perform a critical hit. If you somehow miss this chance, the fight is still easier then on because it is now a 1v1 on the ground.
Bought Elden Ring last November. I struggled with it during the first few hours of the game.
I tried taking on the Tree Sentinel, who roams around at the starting area of the game. The Devs must have put that boss there as a preview of what's to come and maybe just for laughs. Because unless you are a very skilled player, you are not going to be able to defeat that guy, no matter how hard you try. I was both a newbie to the game and an unskilled player. I could not defeat the Tree Sentinel. Just at this very early part of the game, I already died more than 10 times I think.
Anyway, so I moved on and tried to follow the golden markers. I ended up at Gatefront Ruins. Instead of resting at the next site of grace, I only touched it and moved on to fighting the enemies at Gatefront Ruins.
^ This was a very noob mistake, because if I had rested at that site of grace, I would have unlocked the ability to level up. As it is, I kept racking up runes (they are like XP, used to level up), but had no way to make use of them. I could have made my life easier by leveling up, but didn't know I could do that.
I then spent multiple hours trying to clear the enemies at Gatefront Ruins to no avail. I could not defeat the Knight with the Spear and Shield.
^ What's hilarious is that, this guy was not even a field boss. He was just a regular enemy, granted, he was the strongest enemy at the ruins. Couple that with my mistake of not unlocking the level up feature, it's hilarious to look back and think that I could have made the fights against him so much easier.
Starting off the New Year with this wonderful tribute video for Elden Ring. If there was ever any doubt that Elden Ring deserved to be 2022 Game of the Year, this video will extinguish those doubts. This game, no matter how difficult, should be experienced by anyone who loves playing video games.
Also just an update. As of this writing, I am now level 40-41 in Elder Ring. I'll talk about my experience with the game in a future game log. For now, just enjoy this video.
A quick pose at Gatefront Ruins showing the equipment you could get from defeating enemies there: the Brass Shield and the Godric Knight Armor.