Honestly I think that Elden Ring is the version of easy mode. The ability to walk away from a boss and come back later is far less brutal in other souls like. I started with Elden Ring and had given up before finding a very detailed platinum walkthrough and did some farming 🎉before attempting bosses in most souls likes you can fight little guys and very very tediously and slowly build up souls or runes etc or you can get good and the ability to summon spirit ashes to distract bosses m𝓀akes things WAY easier. I've been going through Kai's stream and him somehow overcoming bosses even though it took him hundreds of tries at his level and weapon level is absolutely insane and impressive. That's the beauty of Elden Ring is it can be as easy or as hard as you want.