I love every souls games, Sekiro and Bloodborne, and I think Elden Ring is the worst of them all, worse than DS2 even.
The genre just doesn't gel well with the open world, the sense of progression is shit, there's a lot of copy pasted shit bosses and a lot of empty unrewarding places that give absolutely no sense of progression nor satisfaction.
Whereas I've binged every single Souls like a mf on release day, here I've been struggling to even want to launch Elden Ring.
I'm barely 50h in, a month later, and my employment of it has been minimal all around.
I want my tightly-designed interconnected world back.