I was a faithful Tarnished......
Stumbled my way through Limgrave unlocking secrets.
Magically finding the secret portal to Caelid and smacking Vulgar Militia for some rune farming.
Learning that if I use magic or call my horse in front of that Black Blade Kindred Dragon near Gurranq's temple, it would randomly wake up and kick my azz until I learned to beat it.
Got past Margit and damn near Moonwalked.
Taking like 30 minutes trying to learn how to get past those damn spears/arrows that Radahn unleashes before actually getting to the real fight
Getting to the Mountaintops area and realizing the wolves got wayyyyyyyyyyy more HP
Letting my Mimic go ham on Malenia
Strategizing how to manage my HP and resources with no save/rest between Radagon and Elden Beast.
It's not the GOAT game because the story is light in the shorts. More "lore".....but that shyt was GOTY.