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Nightreign dlc is out, so I might play that but the only character I'm interested in is Executor.
Other than that I'm working on my 5th ng (not ng5) play through of Elden Ring, currently with a light roll, parry/arcane build and it's probably the most fun ive ever had playing it. Stuck on Malenia but I'm really just training myself on her parry timings.
My favorite part of Soulsborne games are boss fights. Second are the Chalice dungeons in bloodborne, not the story dungeons but all the crazy ass glitchy root chalices that have the crazy themed rooms. Theres a common edited chalice (idk what its based on could probably find out) where the first level boss is supposed to be a grind for adept gems, but the second level is like my favorite area in the whole game. Early in the dungeon theres a small room with a watcher spear cleaver hunter, but the room is like completely stacked with boxes. So like every dodge or attack you end up breaking something, and the whole fight is just stuff exploding and at the end the whole room is like completely filled with rubble.
But further in, theres an oil swamp with one hook hand undead giant and two cannon undead giants. A little further on down the hall is a beast possessed soul (bepis), and you can lure him into the oil swamp. Theres even a shortcut hole in the hallway to make it easier to get him in. Once he is in there, you can make bepis fight the undead giants, and its absolutely incredible. Theres just huge fire explosions everywhere, if you get hit with anything its instant death, the bepis can usually take out the hook giant, and you can lure the cannon giants to shoot each other and kill the bepis. Finally its just you and one injured cannon giant to finish off.
The root chalice dungeons are full of these like hard puzzle challenge rooms. For instance I found one of the small circular elevator rooms that had 10 Pthumerian fireball witches. Just an absolutely insane prospect, but some developer had to develop like 2000 of these things and decided "why not?"
The random root chalice dungeons are the greatest part of any souls game