Rented from gamefly, got to the final boss and unfortunately had to call it quits as I had too much going on this month and I'd already kept it out too long. I'm confident I could beat it eventually but I just won't be in the headspace for a while. I'll get there someday if I ever actually own the game and have time for at least one ng+ run. regardless, very good game but axes the more open exploratory feel (both in level design and gameplay) of other from soft titles for a pretty fun focused combat system and mostly good boss encounters. Bosses have never been my favorite part of these games, though certainly I wouldn't take (most of) them out. I definitely prefer the souls games and I don't really ever see myself putting in as much time as I have ds1/2/3 but it was worth going through most of this before finally getting into elden ring (maybe next month?)