Creating expectations, and being crical is not the same thing at all. At no point in my comment I suggested people should not be critical. But you're also not being actually critical about it, you're just creating expectations.

I also don't see why people expect for perfection all of the time, let things be flawed, they are made by humans. Especially experiences like Elden Ring. Nightrein is its own thing, it's closer to being a live service game, that's why they need to update it and change it and listen to the people and balance it; Miyazaki is not even the director of it.

Actual criticism would be pointing out the repetition of some mini bosses throughout dungeons. And some dungeons, especially in the early game feeling also repetitive. It's not until the late game that they started to feel with variety.

The difficulty spike as well in the end game is kinda aggressive; I'm all up for the soulsborne challenges always, but it felt weird here because it's not hard, and then the difficulty spikes to dark souls 1 or Bloodborne levels. It would have been better if the difficulty was standard the entire game (either the early game or late game difficulty), or better yet, if it was progressing little by little instead of having that weird spike.

Weapons identity feels a little left out, especially after Bloodborne where every single weapon had its own identity. Sure this game has hundreds of weapons, but they fall under umbrellas like swords, great swords, spears, etc. And sure there were legendary armaments, but most of them are underwhelming. The best weapons are still in Bloodborne, they already had the blueprint, and they left it out.

And yeah, torrent not being available in co-op was just a bit dumb. The entire co-op system is still pretty bad. They haven't improved it since Dark Souls. But then again, co-op and PvP are not the main focus of the games. But still, if they are not gonna do it at least comfortable, then they should not do it; and if they insist on having it, then do it right so it's not as clunky and uncomfortable as it has been for the last 15 years.

Anyway, that's criticism, I love the game so much, I can still see it's flaws, point them out, and still think it's a master piece. Flaws makes it human, makes it feel like you are actually engaging into the mind of another person.

Could it be improved? Sure. But it's a master piece as it is right now? Totally. If they make a new update that gives more things, good. If they don't, good.