>HP sponge bosses
>Delayed unnatural animations
>High damage and endless combos from bosses
>Platforming in a game not designed for platforming
>Core mechanics not obvious and not explained to the player (guard breaking)
>You have to autistically analyze animations and guard breaks because of bluff animations and poise bars not being shown to the player.
>Bosses have no resting windows and bullshit stamina bars; if they end their combo they backstep and move, out of reach
>Input lag
>Dogshit camera and target focus
>Dogshit hitboxes
>Multiple options that are worth nothing because only half are viable for bosses
>Broken skills and weapons that ignore the core mechanics. Instead of being a back and forth, this is a game of who can spam the most bullshit.
This is artificial difficulty. It's a meme of itself, like a corruption of old dark souls games. And you can't say any criticism because you get the "git gud" treatment.

There are a bunch of people that masturbate about difficult games, not caring about design. You know who they are.

Elden ring went wrong in all directions, it's literal slop for retards that think difficulty = good game. It's all about being in a club and I'm better than you attitude. Fighting game brain rot mentality has taken root in souls games.

Even the story and lore is a meme of itself, it's like a fanfic where everyone dies and there is no purpose to it.

If you like Elden ring more than the souls trilogy, you are a retard, plain and simple. Like a stupid baby entertained by cocomelon videos because colors or jingling keys because they are shinny and sounds. You prefer stupid artificial difficulty and wasting time instead of enjoying a good game because "it's more difficult".