Elden Ring is an extremely polished game whose biggest sin is feeling like a "Greatest Hits" playlist of FromSoftware games. It has original ideas for its setting and characters but also constantly takes concepts from previous souls games to expand upon them or revisit them (to be clear, I don't think this is necessary a bad thing, but I think the plot would've been more memorable if they had experimented more with the themes and setting like they did with Bloodborne or Sekiro, instead of playing it sort of safe with another medieval fantasy game with slight nods to the deities of Bloodborne). Although I love the souls games (mostly for the extremely detailed worlds they take place in). This was the first one I was actually able to play start to finish, you decide if that's a good or a bad thing.