honestly suffers from the open world. dark souls works best when the levels are carefully structured, but here it ends up being kind of barren. it's cool to explore it initially, but that's about it. this game also just has the worst bosses out of the fromsoft games i've played (horoah loux can't save it), which is kind of the big thing fromsoft games need. still a good game, but i just really don't see what people love about this so much compared to other fromsoft games.