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I will say this about Elden Ring.
It's the only FROM game to remind me of Dark Souls 1's design philosophy of
>If you want to play this game with a pure build of any kind, go fuck yourself and die mad
I played the Soulsbornekiro series in reverse order before Elden Ring started, and doing Dark Souls 1 last really showed me how fucking good that game was as an RPG, first and foremost, that just so happened to be challenging as a byproduct. The whole "skill-based challenge" stuff that it got a rep for only really came into play with, like, Artorias.