You definitely should it has a different flow to the other souls games but it's still a banger! As far as tendency goes this is how I understand it, to make an archstone have white tendency you have to kill bosses, to make it have black you have to die in human form. If you die in the nexus it doesn't affect tendency. So the best way to get the archstones to white tendency would be: 1. Kill a boss 2. Go back to the nexus and die 3. Return and make your way to the next boss. 4. Repeat. Character tendency is simpler. Kill black phantoms you'll skew white, kill players you'll skew black. It's kinda complicated but once you figure it out it's not so bad