@MonochromeYoru aight, listen to this:
Being a souls noob such as I am I downloaded the wrong Elden Ring - instead of the vanilla game I downloaded Nightreign first... Suffice it to say I was pretty lost once I ran it for the first and last time.
I quickly realised "hey, idiot, why not start with Dark Souls 1? Doing these games chronologically is surely the way to go if you want to relax and enjoy yourself!" 😃
Wrong!
I absolutely SUCKED and through my sucking I STRESSED OUT constantly! Nothing more needs to be said than I didn't make it past the Taurus demon - General Zodd lite. I did not git gud...
Then I thought "alright, this is the first game in the series. The game mechanics surely weren't polished enough and the proceeding games only get easier for new players!😃"
Wrong. Again.
DS2 bored me honestly. I liked the ambience of DS1 ironically enough, but DS2 never even managed to grab me. Maybe because I just SUCKED at the combat. How the hell am I supposed to time my parry?!
Then I browsed the net a bit and saw Elden Ring tauted as THE souls game for beginners in the franchise. I swallowed my broken pride and downloaded the correct one this time.
Created my character. Went through the tutorial. Entered Limgrave. And I gotta tell you, this game rocks. I still mostly suck at combat but man there's so much to see and do that it's not much of an issue this time. The world is mindnumbingly huge. The bosses ARE tough (dungeon bosses, to be fair, I don't think I've faced any major bosses yet).
I've yet to face soldier of God, Rick but I'm sure I'll neg diff one shot him once I get there.