That’s an opinion that is laughably incorrect. Every single photo mode allows you to disable the UI. Of course a developer can do the same as they routinely do. You can look up literally thousands of legit screenshots with no UI

They’re going to have similarities because they’re made by the same developers, but they play nothing like ER or Sekiro.
The combat is extremely stiff, clunky, and unsatisfying (DS3 to a lesser degree and BB is fine). UI and camera control are a nightmare.
DS1&2 look flat and ugly, DS3 is a mixed bag, and BB is fine. Once they add proper mouse and keyboard controls, they can get better but not that much.

Alright I’ll give it a go. Thanks

elden ring is just copy pasta dark souls.

Lords of the Fallen 1 still looks incredible a decade later, if it’s anything like that I fully expect the screenshots to hold true.

There’s only that one “gameplay teaser trailer” and I can’t really tell anything from it, just constant jump cuts.

Here’s a ‘gameplay’ trailer:
https://youtu.be/ab7PYklIGIs

Unlike most game engines these days UE5 was written specifically for DX12 so the performance should be good whereas pretty much everyone else are using DX11 game engines (poorly) converted to DX12.

Developing a game on a game engine is one thing, developing a game engine itself is a whole different skill set and if you lose a couple core developers like Ubisoft and CDPR did because of bad management everything falls to pieces because no one left really understands how it worked. With UE5 game developers no longer have to worry about that which is why Sony and CDPR are moving over to it for most of their games.