Sounds worse then my mom trying to describe an actor to me "Hey you remember that actor... you know... the one with the... thing *makes nonsensical hand movements*"
I like from software, I’ve beaten ds3 a dozen times (best time now is under 4 hours for base game), and elden ring a few times as faith + melee, and strength only build (strength only was way harder).
But, I will say that from software would be a lot better with a pause button and without the corpse run. I will say that makes the game a lot less fun.
one of the downsides of a lot of games being “Soulslike” today but not made by from software, is that they seem to not care about quality control. They make their games hard and unfair without good level design and diverse enemy design. I’ve played almost all souls like, but the only ones I will replay specifically are the from software ones because they tough but fair. The other ones just aren’t very fair, but instead of fixing that, they just say “it’s soulslike, get gud.”
Elden Ring removed corpse runs at least, I think no pausing is still there though which honestly should just be a thing if you have invasions/online on and not if you're playing solo, but well.