>>723825739
Comparing ER to most other games it's great. And I can see why newcomers love it. Where it my first Souls game I think I'd consider it the best game ever.
But after having seen the series' trajectory, I can only view it as the culmination of every missstep taken.
And everything it does to differentiate itself from previous entries (Having a map to fill out, a wide open-world, a summonable mount, etc.) gets it closer to modern homoginized game-design.