How to approach a Souls game like Elden Ring for absolute beginners

[Windows Central]

Elden Ring is an absolute masterpiece, but it's also quite difficult.
In years past, I looked upon games like Bloodborne and Dark Souls and thought, "Wow, those games look amazing," but every time I had attempted to get into Dark Souls, my perception of its difficulty curve forced me to drop it multiple times.
Knowing full well Elden Ring was likely going to end up as one of the best Xbox games of all time, a few months ago, I steeled myself and decided I'd give Dark Souls one more chance to see whether I could finally cut through its opaque formula. And finally, after almost a decade of trying to get into it, I've finally completed Dark Souls: Remastered as of a few weeks ago.

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