I can see why this one is the "black sheep" of the bunch. I don't think it's bad by any means, but I do think it's a step down from Dark Souls, which I enjoyed very much. It's been awhile since I played DS1, but the controls feel somehow more stiff? I also feel like a lot of encounters I was best of just circling around the enemy, not even rolling, but maybe that's an early game thing. Loot felt like it was nonexistent. Barely got any armor or weapons but I did get the same Hollowed gloves 50 times. I also think it kinda sucks there's an enemy respawn limit, I don't think that was a thing in DS1? I guess they didn't like people super over-leveling. Idk, it just didn't click with me, I was basically pushing myself to play it, just incase it gets to a point where I start to like it. I didn't have to do that with DS1, it had me hooked lowkey. DS2 isn't the only game I've done this with, and as a gamer, I need to not feel like I need to give every game a bunch of tries if it doesn't vibe with me. There's too many games out there to play to be doing that lol.

That said, I still may return to this one, and give it another go. I do wanna put DS1 on here, but I want to replay it first, so after that at some point most likely, but for now, I'm good on it.