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Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim Review

March 28, 2023
By brodybanitt BRONZE, Cannon Falls, Minnesota
brodybanitt BRONZE, Cannon Falls, Minnesota
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When I first played the “Elder Scrolls 5:Skyrim” I was wowed at how awesome it was. So now I'm going to review it for you guys. I'm going to be talking about graphics, gameplay, and the storyline. 

Starting off with graphics, From the tiniest little detail on the weapons to the different color shades on each scale of the Argonians. Each weapon has its own little illustration on them, and depending on the kind of metal used to make the weapon it will come with a different style of illustration on it. Like most elven weapons and armor come with a bird on them. For example, the hammer part of the elven Warhammer is literally the head of a bird. And ebony weapons and armor come with majestic and swirly lines all over, and plain old steel has a wolf-like figure on it. Even the skins have diverse skin colors and hairstyles, and I can even change how buff I am. And what I love about it is that when killing someone, it's not just the same old I hit them, they fall over and die. Every once in a while it freshens it up and My character does a special attack that switches between a couple of animations like the one where I can see my sword plunge threw their body, or the rare one where they're walking away and I run up behind them swing up and my ax smashes into the back of the opponent. Definitely a thumbs up from me.

Now moving on to gameplay. “Skyrim's” gameplay is very adventurous and role-playing. In “Skyrim”, I can basically roam around wherever I want and do whatever I want. Of course, some things may come with consequences, for example, if I kill someone in a city I will get a bounty, and all the town guards will be after me, but if I have high enough stats I can just fight off the guard and steal as much as I want. I personally like how I can virtually choose whatever kind of person I want to be. If I want to be nice, then I can go around helping people by finding stuff they lost or delivering stuff for them. Or maybe one day I decide that I want to be bad, Then I can go around stealing stuff from people and attack the town guard. Or maybe I just want to fight somebody but I still want to be good, then I can just go and fight off that nasty group of bandits that keep terrorizing the village. This game is basically filled with big decisions that ultimately sum up to a choice of good or bad. Personally I think that's really cool that I can make my character however i want him to be, that's a thumbs up.

Now that I'm done talking about the super fun gameplay, I'm going to talk about the storyline. I'm going to give Bethesda a huge thumbs up on the storyline because it is amazing. All of the “Elder Scrolls” games follow a really big and thought out storyline. The “Elder Scrolls'' have a ton of lore. Every race has an origin story in their home land. For example the Argonians come from a swampy jungle land that has a magical jungle were trees literally move to confuse explorers and get them lost, and then there's the Nords who came from a different continent to the continent of Tamriel and took the country of Skyrim from the Snow Elves. There are also so many other stories, like some talk about the gods, some talk about different realms, some even talk about wars on different continents and how people ended up in Skyrim. The cool part about it is that all over in the game and I mean literally anywhere you look you can find a book or two that have lore about the storyline. There's so much lore on this game that there are literally websites filled to the brim talking about one topic. The thing that surprises me the most is that despite the absolute giant amount of lore, there's still hundreds of unsolved mysteries about the elder scroll storyline. It's almost like with every answer comes another question. And that's what makes this game so amazing, is that nomader how much I think I know, there's still hundreds of mysteries that I still don't know the answers to, and that just makes the game that much more fun to know there's still more to learn. 

That's going to wrap up my review on the graphics, gameplay, and storyline of the “Elder Scrolls 5:Skyrim”. If it wasn't for how amazed I was when I first played this game I probably wouldn't be giving this awesome review. I give this game a thumbs up and I hope you get around to playing this game. 



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