Nightreign's distilled shot of Elden Ring juice makes it my ideal level of soulslike investment after 14 years of getting good

I've fallen off of soulslikes.

Not because of a lack of appreciation: I'll always treasure felling a FromSoft boss so I can snatch up their soul, read the item description and wonder what all those proper nouns might mean.

It's a problem of exhaustion.

The cracks first started showing in Sekiro—watching Guardian Ape stand back up after being decapitated is something I'll never spiritually recover from—but Elden Ring finally confirmed that I'd burnt out my soulslike stamina. A...