Not for SL1/RL1, afaik. However, iirc, DS2 does give you a set of rings for doing no bonfires and no estus. (One ring makes your right hand weapon invisible, the other makes the left hand weapon invisible.)

Let’s be honest, the US was no shining beacon of democracy even before Trump. The system was rotten and everyone knew it. However, those with the power to change it have no incentive to do so. It was basically held up because the poeple in charge had some common decency. At that point it’s just a matter of time before someone came along that didn’t have this basic decency.

I think the people of the UK should take a long, hard look at how the situation has evolved in the US and decide if they want to change their system to avoid having only two parties dominate the political climate. Ironically, being a monarchy means they are probably more resistant to going down the same route, but I suspect the parties are going to get more radical as time goes on and the royals aren’t terribly popular these days.

(Opinion to be taken with a pinch of salt. I am no expert in these things and don’t live in either country; We’ve got our own radicalization and issues with our own democracy.)

Demon’s Souls, Dark Souls 2, Elden Ring. Even if you don’t count Demon’s Souls and Elden Ring because you meet a boss before you can level there is still DS2, which has no tutorial boss, and requires you to move through an area before fighting the first boss (which will be either Last Giant, Pursuer, Dragonrider, Old Dragon Slayer, Najka, or the Rotten if I remember correctly).

Honestly, I’d probably say that Ryze is the main character of LoL. Dude is out here traveling across the land, searching far and wide. Trying to catch them all collect all the world runes before they cause another disaster. His cinematic (Power) gave real main character vibes.

(And I think Ryze would have a pretty good shot at surviving Yharnam.)

In my opinion Bloodborne 2 and Demon Souls 2 are disqualified for being PS exclusives, and therefore I have no interest in them.

Sekiro I just didn’t like all that much, so I don’t really care for a Sekiro 2. I think From did well in making it; it just wasn’t my cup of tea.

For all my gripes with Dark Souls 3 it did tie up the series nicely with a nice bow, so I don’t really want any more Dark Souls games (If anything Dark Souls it would be a proper remaster of Dark Souls 2, but that is never happenening/that already happened and is called Elden Ring.)

So by default I guess the answer is Elden Ring. There are a bunch of story threads that I would like to know more about in Elden Ring (mainly The Gloam Eyed Queen and Melina (who is probably the prison/host for her) and what happens after the madness ending) and I like the game. But I think I’m pretty happy with where the game ended, and a sequel would need to choose which ending is canon (or be a prequel, I guess. The Shattering could be a fun time to explore) or it would need to be so distant from the game that we won’t hear anything about the questions raised in Elden Ring anyway (Dark Souls / Nightreign style).

If I could pick freely I think I would prefer that From takes the lessons they learned from Elden Ring and makes something new.

Bonfire Ascetics for sure. Missed them is every other game and I have no idea why they haven’t made a return.

Beyond the obvious I’d also like to add the ability to powerstance different types of weapons (like rapier+dagger). The wakisashi in ER tries to be that, but it falls short since it loses the ability to powerstance with daggers.

Lutheran practice, mainly. (Wikipedia link) Honestly never occurred to me that there are places where this isn’t normal (though the candles aren’t usually in wreaths here, just in regular candle sticks with four candles).

Haven’t played in a while, but I’ve been rocking “Combat Medic” on my Warrior casually since I unlocked it. It was one of the first titles I unlocked, and definitely the first that I actively tried to get. I remember a forest in one of the early human zones with a bunch of downed soldiers and a heart quest that involved reviving them. I dropped a battle standard on a group of them every time I passed by to get progress towards the achievement.

I assumed op meant exclusive access in the sense of “this is mine, and nobody else is allowed to use it”.

Dunno about people in the US, but this chat says the information is from England. I’m guessing delivery is included in one of the other categories.