This might become my favorite game by From Software. The atmosphere and aesthetics in this game are top tier. It manaages to create a truly alien feeling world that you don't belong in. A dream like qulaity that feels like a location your mind creates in a vivid dream that sticks with you for years. A game that looks and feels like it wouldn't be real. Someone said to me "it looks like something posted on the "games that don't exist" twitter account." and I 100% agree.

The ending is the weakest part of this game. It has me torn between rating this game a 5 like i want to and a 4.5 because the final "area" is a wet fart compared to everything else.

Highly recommend playing it

Not a mad world, THE mad world. A nonsensical cumulus of places, still clinging after so many iterations of preserving a feeling, an element, an ember.

Replaying it after almost 8 years has been amazing. I remembered even the enemy placement, but almost forgot the sensations of the places themselves. There's been a lot of complaints about Blight Town, but i love how horrific it looks, how sick the enemies look, the platforms and the wood don't make any physical sense, you are able to pass through out of pure luck! It was one of the instances where I stopped and felt a sinking feeling in my stomach, thinking how many ages you would need to backtrack in time for any of this to make sense, any logical sense based on our world.

Also, I don't understand people saying this is TOO SLOW of a game. "I've played Dark Souls 3 and now I can't get back to 1". Like bitch, just go for endurance and dexterity, you can dodge anything and move gracefully, you can even get strong armour and tank many bosses while still moving a lot; that's how I killed the DLC bosses and Gwyn on first try.

More thoughts in my Elden Ring review.