The best Souls game by a hard margin. It totally lacks any of the rough edges or caveats that all the others -- fantastic as they are -- come with, it's just perfect in every way, from gameplay, to controls, to story/lore, to level design, to bosses, to visual presentation, to music. The only bad things I can say about it are that the Arcane stat is a bit underpowered, and the Chalice Dungeons as a concept just plain aren't very good, but neither of those detracts at all from the main experience.