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Elden Ring to me, felt like what they ultimately wanted to achieve with Dark Souls 2 in terms of world and sense of scope.

Where DS2 feels disjointed with awkward level transitions that don't do a good job of conveying the sense of scope the game really has, Elden Ring succeeds.

I consistently felt like I was rewarded in my exploration and felt like the major dungeons / gauntlets in Elden Ring were incredibly well done.

I have my critiques, it isn't perfect by any means, but it was still an amazing experience. I remember my friends thinking I was bonkers for calling out how awful the STR / Colossal weapon experience was at launch compared to other builds and weapon classes, and then FromSoftware went on to patch all of things I'd basically whinged about. Was a real nice "told ya so" to a bunch of people I knew that felt I was being overly critical at launch lol.

Game to my knowledge is in a good place now in terms of PvE balancing and STR / Colossal weapons are very good too? Haven't replayed it since.

Anyway, long needless monologue, hope you end up enjoying it as much as I did.