ER 100% exacerbated many souls bullshit.
ie.
“everything sucks gais” so much that we forgot to make a meaningful open world, instead here’s just the same post apocalypse area reskinned 100 times. Every town, mansion, castle, settlement are all just a delivery vehicle for more zombies.
“NPCs will give you literally no information, aren’t we quirky gais?” so much that they still give you no clear instructions, drop a bullshit name you have no clue about, and telefuckoff to their next quest location across the map and hours of gameplay away and you’ll probably never find them again unless you read a guide.
In terms of tone, storytelling, world design, ER highlights why the way From does these things is god awful.
I won’t even get into the de-evolution of boss design
Yep, which is my point that people cope themselves into thinking Fromsoft can do no wrong when they actually do a lot of wrongs and they’re right out in the open, people just refuse to acknowledge them.