Late game gets kind of horseshit and I can't really see myself wanting to NG+ this game more than once. The boss reuse and the idea that the game seemingly really wants you to end up relying on spirit summons is very obnoxious.

Has that soulsgrift issue where the game just isn't as good the further along you go. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't having fun for the first 50 hours. Some of the side content is almost DS2-tier and the main bosses start to get to a level of DS3-tier in terms of being fucking obnoxious.

I enjoyed the exploration quite a bit although I wish the exploration was as good as it was in the bottom half of the map. As I started clearing up the northern areas it became apparent to me that there just wasn't that much to actually do in the top half of the map. I mean sure you got some towers and caves to find around there still but there just wasn't as much, although I am kind of grateful that there weren't as many minidungeons to find in the top half of the map considering how lazy they started getting with the bosses. I thought fighting Astel was cool when advancing the Ranni questline but I wasn't really too ecstatic to see that I'd fight Astel again at the end of a tunnel.

Oh yea I forgot to mention that the Elden Lord endings and it's variations are borderline Mass Effect 3 tier, only difference is you gotta work for those variations