It doesn't even feel worth writing a review for Dark Souls 1. This is probably the most discussed game in the past 10 years, and in another 10 years when you see interviews with breakout game directors and devs a lot of them will be listing this game as one of their biggest influences, which is a testament to the impact of this game despite its flaws.

I can give you the same opinions that people have been discussing for like 10 years; the combat is a great straight forward to understand but a combination of build variations and punishing encounters elevates it, there's some fantastic level design in the early half of the game but its sketchy development lead to good chunks of the later half of he game being either uninspired or just bad. but all thats been discussed, you probably knew all that. this is my third playthrough of this game man.

Dark souls 1 changed people's views on difficulties, story telling, open-ish world level design, game replayability and even just action game combat, for better and worst. It's been discussed for 10 years, and will continue to be discussed and few games, whenever you like it or not, will ever have an impact on the gaming ecosystem like DS1. You owe yourself to throw yourself into it if you somehow haven't given it a try by now.