Prepping to play Elden Ring

Anyone ever play? I played a little bit and got my ass handed to me. I decided to train so to speak. Play Bloodborne first. Bloodborne is what I call "Baby's First Dark Souls". I feel like its the easiest of the "series" even though all the Dark Soul related games are not all made by From Soft. Then Demon Souls, then Dark Souls 1-3. I feel like if I play Elden Ring first I won't appreciate the others. I played Bloodborne the past couple of days, got my ass kicked at first but the muscle memory is kicking in now. First two bosses down, easy peasy. Though I'm not looking forward to those humming, eldritch monsters coming up. The one thing in that game that creeped me out.