Finally beat it. I spent the last minute or so fighting the Elden Beast just trying to chase it around, dodging and taking his AOE's to the face, hoping to stay in range long enough to do some, any damage to it. What a stupid last encounter imo.
Anyway It's a 10 out of 10 game, sans the bosses, a lot of them are difficult for various non-fun reasons but I probably didn't try to git gud enough. Either way the first 2/3 of the game is a 10/10 but tbh the last third wasn't very fun if I'm being honest. Like Malenia could be a really fun fight, like Maria was in BB or even Orphan who I died to like 20x but every bit of damage from those bosses felt like they were deserved. Malenia they gave her that bullshit I-win combo ability that while technically dodgeable just makes the fight really annoying and unpredictable.
I don't see myself re-playing ER anytime soon. I might check out NG+ just to torture small creatures with +10 weapons but I'm thinking by the time the first DLC drops they'll do a lot of tweaking and it should be a lot more fun the second time around.