That's Elden Ring with no learning curve. It's a process that lets FromSoftware essentially throw players in the water and urge them to swim for safety. Would the interface for users be more explicit? I would think so Elden Ring Runes. Could the devs make an unison effort to evolve the combat mechanics past the confusion of the previous versions? Absolutely, anything is possible. But personally, I don't want a game that plays similar to every other game. It's also helpful that I gain a disproportionate amount of satisfaction from Elden Ring's constant die-retry-die loop, of course--and it's pleasing to witness FromSoftware persistently adhere to its decades-old rules. Similar to a game that eschews modern sensibilities like high-definition images and higher frame rates for a smoother experience to attain the desired aesthetic, Elden Ring wouldn't be an appropriate successor to the Souls lineage should it not kindly request players to modulate themselves to its eccentricities , not and the reverse.
Mind you, Elden Ring isn't what that it or its predecessors were claimed to be by ardent fans as well as detractors. The new, open-world structure appears to be an intentional choice of FromSoftware to give an opportunity to those who bounced off different Souls games, many of which were less linear as Elden Ring. Being stuck by a challenge within Dark Souls or Bloodborne, for example, typically meant slamming into that same wall repeatedly again until finally breaking through bloody and bruised, but the Lands Between provide much more to explore and experience. A lot of time can be spent exploring these regions prior to the first major dungeon , and the skill test of a boss. This includes collecting loot and increasing levels until you're strong enough to reduce Godrick the Grafted into a pile of amputated limbs and limbs with no effort. You can even skip the fortress completely if you've concluded that you're done with the nonsense he's been delivering, a feasible option for those who want to explore the remainder of the game has to offer.
In the core, the charm of Elden Ring is found not in its difficulty, but in the little things you do between the massive boss battles. It's about exploring every shadowy nook and fog-obscured cranny of the world in search of items you'll never use. It's about rotating the camera in the right direction to see at corners and across slick walls for hidden dangers. It's about clambering into coffins which take you over and up waterfalls, to caves that were largely in the past and now filled with elven creatures from far beyond the stars. It's about scaling the crags of a dead to elden ring items buy, impossible massive dragon or the giant branchings of a golden Tree each of which has been so incorporated into the structures of a decaying capital city that, long before your arrival it was more architecture than biology.