Loved the fluidity of the combat. It's abundantly clear FromSoft learned a lot from Bloodborne, applying a lot of that game's principles to the final part of the trilogy.

I really like this trilogy overall - it has some excellent ideas, some fantastic, memorable fights, and a damn moody medieval aesthetic that I'm glad took off the way it did. But with the benefit of a good few months of hindsight, they're games that didn't make me feel the way Bloodborne and Elden Ring do. Perhaps it's because I always felt held at arm's length: Bloodborne and Elden Ring has me fully invested in everything that was happening, where these three feel more... distant, vague.

Glorious. Feels like a culmination of all the FromSoft games that came before in one huge open-world that attempts to incorporate mechanics from all of its predecessors. It's not perfect but it's the first time I felt absolutely lost and completely engulfed in a game since Breath of the Wild. Playing this in the first few weeks of release and talking and theorising with my mates about rare bosses, items and dungeons to find was an awesome experience that I've never really had before. It felt like a treasure trove for us all to experience, with everyone finding something new just by playing it their own way.