Coming back to Bloodborne after sinking a ton of time into Elden Ring completely cemented this as one of my favorite games of all time. Elden Ring is this maximalist take on a Souls game that jams just about everything you could ever want in one of those into it without a care for balance or progression, which is great in it's own right. However, Bloodborne's focus on tight, multi-layered level design mixed with the more action oriented mechanics (gun parries, rallying, trick weapons) makes my brain gush serotonin at a rate that very few other games can come close to. A primal urge to beat my chest like an ape rises up from the depths every time I parry a boss with my blunderbuss and rip their guts out - you can't get that feeling anywhere else.