I might be the only person in the world that disliked Elden Ring. Most areas felt like rehashes of older Soulsborne games, the bosses were forgettable and underwhelming. The difficulty is all over the place with frame-reading enemies. The semi-open world makes it so that you can be incredibly overleveled for some areas, which makes them incredibly boring and ruins the tension. Story does not do anything new. Though combat-wise, this is superior than the Dark Souls games (not BB or Sekiro), especially when it comes to magic. Generally the moment-to-moment gameplay is fun, but it started feeling to me like a slog and I stopped looking forward to the next area and boss.
Overall a decent game, but a bit disappointing in the larger picture. Dropped it after ~50 hours when my save got corrupted.