Sands of Aura [Impressions] [4K] 

I've played some more since recording and can say that while armor upgrades *do* make a difference in survivability, I started having more fun when I switch my play style from "slowly fight and win" to "explore, grab items and survive". You can go to really high level areas very early and it was fun to run and dodge enemies in order to grab all of the higher level items sitting on the ground to make previous areas a bit easier to go through methodically. I'm still really enjoying it about 10 hours in!

@TheJeffAndDavidShow To be fair there are several places- in the open world in particular- within elden ring where it feels like the player is just meant to run past enemies to the next grace rather than fight everything in their way.