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We died on dying Lunastra after we killed Teostra and that led to him making this

ELDEN RING - Soulslikes generally have tendency to posses optional content of the same if not higher quality as the main one, making missing out on it feel like missing a core part of the game, even if its not handled to the players playing linearly. However whilst you can more or less "experience" most of soulslikes by playing linearly, its not really the case in ELDEN RING where "mandatory" content is more or less 10% of the game.
Its essentially few "pit stops" between what is entirely structured of exploring optional content at your own pace. Forcing yourself to do only mandatory content on par with DLC would be not much different from not playing the game.

Also game expects you to get stronger thru exploring those optional locations so forcing yourself thru "pit stops" without powering up makes dealing with threats there rather miserable.

Metroidvanias - this genre of games is all about you not knowing where to go and slowly building your understanding of the world and your character - part of it is checking every corner in search of things that will let you progress and similar. That comes with mandatory locations being mixed up with optional ones and games like those will rarely indicate to you what is mandatory.

By trying to avoid optional content you might as well miss mandatory one and temporary soft lock yourself out of progression until you will decide to check out what you deemed to be optional. On top of that final challenge in those games usually expects you to engange with huge portion of optional content. In presented here Silksong, you will miss entire Act (out of three) if you will not deal with side quests and similar.

Monster Hunter series - weird case of reverse psychology where entire games despite being primarly lineal singleplayer first coop second are expected to be 200% content mandatory as players simply dont have enough. They usually get a lot of content post launch, simply to give players, much desired, reason to hunt more more more and more.

All you need to give to hunter is new set, new challenge, new anything and they will hunt. Its a game that specifically welcomes people who will play it not having enough of it, and so always wanting more content is common in it. Engaging with any kind of side content is a question here, to which answer is always yes

Funny example: Minecraft - Minecraft is an sandbox game first, and beatable game... tenth? Final boss is merely an addition for those who seek either simply a bonus challenge or some kind of closure to their adventure - as adventure is all this game is about.
Doing whatever you want and engaging with the game sandbox elements. I think its needless to say that if someone told you that their entire experience with Minecraft was ONLY speedruning the final boss, you simply wouldnt believe them.

Trope inversion: Terraria - despite being a game of huge amount of content and sandbox elements, due to its rich line of main content, weaponry progression and bosses, a lot of players have tendency to only do whats mandatory whilst not even building proper base, relying on box of wood and whatever is necessary to place on the ground.

I am a Tokyo Ghoul and Devil May Cry fan so I know cases where anime is just terrible and Jujutsu Kaisen fan so I know cases where anime is generally good but it have smaller or bigger unnecessary changes that make reading manga still worth it.

I didnt heard anything bad about HxH anime and thats why I am asking if its alright to watch it and only read parts of the manga happening after it

Mods dont kick my dog please

Someone who recommended me game also recommended to install few mods, one of them was NoGrind I guess, I dont have contact with them so wanted to ask here what I should installl before beginning my playthrough

Devs are making use of UE thats for sure

Yes, I am so bad that I cant input half the moves in action

See that crouch slash at the 0:05 mark? That was me trying to input sword throw special