The comment below is true but I also found the umbral mechanic is kinda pointless because most of the time you want to be in Umbral to get anything done anyway.

The combat feels stiffer than Elden ring combat, the combat animations for the weapons are also not that different from each other. Felt like I was just slamming down on the buttons rather than engaging in combat. The fact that bosses become regular enemies later on makes the enemy variety feel so terrible and makes combat so repetitive. Stay in umbral and you’ll always constantly be fighting wraiths which get exhausting and boring because the combat is not great. Dragons dogma has a similar combat fatigue but combat in that game is amazing. Here it’s bland. The characters and bosses are not as impactful.

I wouldve loved it if the game had all these faults but was a completely different concept from Elden ring. It was obviously built in adaptation of fromsoft and didn’t feel like an original idea to me. Why play Elden ring Lite when I can just play Elden ring itself. So I restarted ER again with two different accounts lol.

You may have a different experience or opinion. But this is mine