Fine game overall but I really wish it committed to being more of its own thing, I've warmed up to it more considerably these last 2 playthroughs, but its hard to ignore some flat out unappealing qualities. It's nice that SOTFS gives you the dull ember way earlier than the original, but adding a million items needed for the dlc is awful. The ADP stat and the way movement and attacking feels in general is still very disappointing, especially after just 100%ing dark souls 1, which still feels perfect. The whole game hypes you up to die a lot and lose souls constantly but the only challenge this game offers for the most part is the amount of gank squads in every area. But its more dark souls so it cant be that bad. Running around with 50 FTH and sunlight blade kicks ass. The game has a lot of cool things to experiment with magic wise and overall has a lot of weird cool things none of the other games have. Bonfire ascetics are kind of an amazing idea, and I love the random shit like the butterfly armor that poisons people. I wish there was more of that personality in the game.