FromSoftware turns this Dark And Darker Gold on its head. The horror of Elden Ring perverts these common expectations. In Bloodborne, some of the most horrifying monsters are shrouded more literally for a later reveal. 

Every oppressive, stuffy room in Bloodborne is terrifying in its own way, and coming across the Nightmare Frontier, a more open area, is horrid too. But I prefer the horror Elden Ring explores. Other FromSoftware titles scare you with things stepping out of the mist, or something grabbing you from around a corner. 

And up, like Anor Londo, would be closer to heaven. Elden Ring provides plenty of safe areas for the player, room to ponder and take in its elegant landscape, but it's all the more upsetting that these areas intermingle with the evil, that there are fewer hard barriers separating them.

There are still jumpscare moments in Elden Ring though. Maybe the most horrible monster conceptually is the hand spiders, also known as Fingercreepers. FromSoftware really thought of the one way to make spiders more horrible than putting Patches' head on one in Bloodborne—making them hands instead. 

The beginning of the Caria Manor area is fraught with the hand monsters hanging out above you and buried below you, waiting for you to take a wrong step. The first time you're caught by one, you're cheap Dark And Darker Gold chewed up in a palm or simply run away in revulsion.