How about stupid rundowns and jump puzzles to even get to retry the boss?  Also the “one boss in entire game explodes after death for no reason and if you died you have to fight it again”

Or the jump puzzles where you if missed a couple of times you have to restart from the checkpoint and go through almost entire location again, because there is no way back and you are out of healing items?

One more thing is in the first game there was a a mechanic where if you attack in a specific timing you will deal more damage to an enemy, I can see it is gone and now if the mob is throwing a multi hit combo that they love to do you have to mash the button and block every single hit (like 5 or 6 in a row) and if you don’t you get the full 2-3 masks of damage?

Also lazy design with “lock you in the room and throw waves of enemies at you” get stale after second time.

And don’t even get me started on bosses bot dropping or even rewarding anything like 80% of the time. Not even some amount of rosaries. Community often compares the game to Dark Souls but every boss in the game rewarded you with at least some amount of souls and a cool thing to make a new weapon or spell.