Agreed. I like that they had been involved about making the sport too simple with extra checkpoints after which Elden Ring had statues of Marika and so they had been like “oh, it is okay to put checkpoints close to bosses and elite enemies…cool”
I additionally agree that everybody was anticipating ER to be nice however not style defining…particularly when pre launch gameplay footage regarded a tad dated with it wanting like darkish souls with a horse…I used to be VERY completely satisfied to be fallacious on that one. That mentioned, I feel they’ve gone so far as they will go along with the slower souls fight vs one thing like Bloodborne or particularly Sekiro. I would prefer to see them lean extra into the mounted fight and make that extra….simply extra since whereas it was a breath of contemporary air for the souls style, it wasn’t actually fleshed out a lot in ER(which isn’t a knock on them…solely so many hours within the day).
All that to say I feel the LotF is wanting actually good and the Umbral system jogs my memory alot of Soul Reaver the place you basically have two worlds on high of one another. If this sport is a hit, I might see them REALLY increasing on Umbral since it is a cool twist on the souls formulation.