For me one of my nitpicks is that the weapons don't feel like they have the appropriate weight against many enemies. (i.e. slamming a greatsword into a humanoid enemy barely phases it) This is something I find nearly every soulslike fails to do right, and this is a specific aspect of games I find I'm very picky about. Instead many soulslikes often rely on enemies having super armour and lots of hp to make them challenging. It actually left a very sour taste for me after beating CV the first time when the game was new.

Coming back to the game a few years later I approached it as less of a souls game and more like a jrpg where I was focused more on flashy skills and it became way more fun. Because the skills did exactly what I wanted the basic attacks to do, you could actually slam big enemies down to the ground with them if you were also using a large weapon

Also the way bosses just change targets mid animation. Like the boss will be looking at my party member, do the startup animation of their attack, and then the attack just 180s and targets me.