>>715994686
It's a symptom of the games never really evolving past what Dark Souls (series) did. Elden Ring is just the greatest hits mechanics of Dark Souls thrown in together with little regard for their interaction. They made the enemies much tougher to compensate for it, but the game feels even more passive than it used to, where movement in Demon's Souls and Dark Souls 1 was much more important, and positioning meant you could completely destroy enemies before they even had a chance to fight back. Now it's just wait your turn for the enemy to stop doing its 20-hit flying, raging demon combo.

>>3785077
It's not terrible but for me it definately leaned more towards meme, not even trying to hate on it but I say meme in that supposedly this game is supposed to be a return to form/classic FF style when it does not attempt actually to be like the older games in the series, it's just more of a linear set piece movie game style JRPG with lots of cutscenes and drama and preset characters (that you can't even change their class or anything). If that sort a thing is what you like then fine, a lot of JRPGs are kinda about that but that's not really what made the early Final Fantasy games interesting and yet it also doesn't feel like it pushes any boundaries for what Final Fantasy is actually about either, I prefer 7 and 8 far more.