Elden ring fans are fucking retarded because the whole pitch if the game is "But you can explore at your own pace it rewards exploration tho" but it literally does it.

Look up any fucking build and its just "follow these instructions to the t to be able to beat the game, even then it will be challenging" and requires you to start a new save for it. And on the topic of exploration on your own, all you experience is death after death to absolute tanks of enemies, forcing you to run into another wall of enemies