As a person who hates the whole "Souls" formula this game is fun and fresh enough to keep me playing. Open world is pretty darn good and you can play the game however you want. Want to spend time getting a new katana you'll probably never going to use? Go for it because the game allows you to do whatever the fuck you want. Random mini bosses are fun to fight, dungeons are somehow not copypaste's; every aspect of the open world feels different and It's a delight to explore these. And the best part is you can entirely miss or encounter accidentally every single one of them.

For instance when exploring the first castle I happened to jump on a sandbag on somewhere completely unrelated to my destination. Followed a kinda weird path and found a (forgotthenametalismankindofthing) asked my friend if they got this too and they said "I didn't even know a place like this existed and I was pretty sure that I explored the entire castle." then I returned back and jumped into a death-trap looking place and somehow arrived at the boss location. I probably skipped lots of important places but the game let me to explore the castle the way I wanted to and I really appreciate this.

As I said I don't like Souls games, their combat felt pretty boring and unresponsive to me (Maybe because I only played them on ps4) and Elden Ring is mostly the same case. So you liked them you'll like this, you hated them you'll hate this Elden Ring is still a Souls game but it's the same thing with lot lots of flavour sprinkled over it. I expected to hate this but I thoroughly enjoyed my 6-7 hours with it and probably will play more when I have more free time in my hands. It's nothing like a "best game ever made" but It's still a pretty well made game even after all that hype built over it.

Also this game runs like a total piece of crap on ps4 don't even consider buying this for a classic/slim ps4.

Also I should really stop writing reviews to games I didn't even got quarter into on 1 am