To start off, this might be one of the greatest games I've ever played coming from someone that thought a game like this wouldn't interest me. I constantly think about replaying this game, it's one of those games that you'll always remember the great times you had on it and the (annoying times of constantly dying) but that's the whole point with learning and fixing your mistakes within this game.

This game was very well balanced honestly, it was very difficult first picking it up and got a bit easier (from personal experience). But the more you progress and learn the bosses and enemies attack patterns, the more it will get easier on you. I've never played any of the Dark soul franchise and would love to play all of them through honestly.

This game really deserved the game of the year back in 2022, (whenever it was) but I'll always love this game and this is highly recommended to everyone if you're not easily frustrated and up for a very challenging game. I would not recommend this game if you're very easily annoyed and tend to break your stuff, this game WILL annoy you, it is very hard but honestly Elden Ring gets a lot easier than the other Dark souls games from what I've heard, but then again when I played this before the bleed builds were (very overpowered).