Elden ring specialises in grandness. Massive world, big cinematic bosses with multiple phases and cutscenes and voice acting. Truly expansive areas with lots to explore. Dark Souls 3 specialises in tight metroidvania-esque level design, mechanically fun and engaging bosses, less exploits and just a neater experiances that shoehorns you into where to go. Overall this is why after only 17 hours, I have to say Dark Souls 3 is just more fun to play. The game is far more challenging and enemies and bosses dont feel like cluster♥♥♥♥s. Thats not to say Elden Ring is bad, far from it. But the experiance Elden Ring provides is completely different focusing on blowing you away with the sheer amount of content. If you just want fun mechanically interesting combat system to engage in, Dark Souls 3 is far superior!

Elden ring specialises in grandness. Massive world, big cinematic bosses with multiple phases and cutscenes and voice acting. Truly expansive areas with lots to explore. Dark Souls 3 specialises in tight metroidvania-esque level design, mechanically fun and engaging bosses, less exploits and just a neater experiances that shoehorns you into where to go. Overall this is why after only 17 hours, I have to say Dark Souls 3 is just more fun to play. The game is far more challenging and enemies and bosses dont feel like clusterfucks. Thats not to say Elden Ring is bad, far from it. But the experiance Elden Ring provides is completely different focusing on blowing you away with the sheer amount of content. If you just want fun mechanically interesting combat system to engage in, Dark Souls 3 is far superior!