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game is very different from the other two but it is such an insane step forward from dark souls 1. teleportation between fires alone makes this a better game, not to mention the various other improvements that fromsoft just learned were good in elden ring. biggest issues i have with it are how slow your character's actions can be sometimes (mainly the estus flask), and how damn easy the bosses are. Otherwise, love the story, love the world, gameplay is fun as ever, and this game gets a lot of hate for no damn reason!
I really don't understand the weird ass combat change where you have to go through 3 fucking menus to input a set of moves. It's implying that this game is less strategy focused and more spammy, but the challenge of the game would tell you otherwise. The game itself is not an insane challenge, but there were bosses where I would have to change my moves every other turn, which is annoying when you need to go through these menus to do so. I really enjoyed the characters of IS, and was insanely disappointed with how they played almost no role in this game. The new main team is very good, and I think everyone was very well written besides Maya getting an obvious downgrade because this game really totally needed a silent protagonist. The story, while good, was kind of just IS again but adding the memory loss aspect to it and swapping the characters.