Why does this game spoil itself so much? The loading screens reveal cool locations way too early and the teleporters (which also make no sense lore-wise and feel out of place) bring you to cool places too early.
Pretty poor difficulty scaling and balancing too. So many bosses that I destroyed in literally five hits, and then sponge bosses than I grinded out listening to a podcast.
Repeat bosses were lame.
Exploration was intrinsically satisfying, but the extrinsic rewards sucked.
High fantasy GRRM lore was a bit much for me, the story felt muddy, not as clean as other fromsoft titles.