After a solid six weeks of traversing and scouring the Lands Between I can finally say that I've seen most of what Elden Ring has to offer and I absolutely loved it. The only open world game that has succeeded in keeping me engaged and excited for the entire duration; no lulls or hackneyed side tasks in sight. I also hadn't felt such pure joy and awe in exploring a video game map since entering the members-only regions of RuneScape for the first time a long, long time ago!

Much of the core gameplay feels very familiar by now if you've played FromSoftware's other games but they do shake things up quite a bit with the relentlessly aggressive boss fights and the spirit summoning system. To me, this definitely feels like FromSoftware's magnum opus and I immensely enjoyed every second of my first playthrough. One of the all-time greats, an astounding video game through and through.