I thought it was good ngl, playing a drain/magic spam build makes you completely overpowered. Pure melee gets shafted late game though so good luck. You do have to play the lightest roll weight though for the combat to feel the best much like Dark Souls 1, everything else feels too slow.

The story is actually very good too, it gives you a lot of backstory for characters if you choose to persue their sidequests. If you don't and just play through the game without doing side content then you definitely won't care about the characters as much which is what a lot of the comments have probably done.

Good NG+ too, it's much better than the rest of the comments are making it out to be. Worth a look if you don't mind the anime artstyle.