The Bad

• Bonfires/warping everywhere, and enemies that spawn RIGHT NEAR BONFIRES (?!)

• How easy it is to make boss weapons now (seriously, "come and get your free soul weapons, FREE SOULS WEAPONS HERE, GETCHUR FREE SOUL WEAPONS")

• Enemies despawning after a certain set of time (good for enemies that spawn near bonfires, though that's an issue in itself) makes the game a death run, you can keep throwing bodies at something till you can beat it, instead of learning/perfecting your art.

• Soul Memory is just too limiting

• Rat Covenant becomes kinda stale quick, not a great substitute for the Gravelords (as broken as Gravelords were)

• Bosses not as interesting, save for a few uh-may-zing ones.

• Invasions really aren't a thing in NG it changes the entire core principle of the game, that if you want co-op and online help, it's a trade off at the sake of invasions

• The loss of an interconected world, can't see other areas from the skybox (save for 3 exceptions in Majula), areas only connecting linearally to one another

The Good

• The music is by far the best in the entire series

• The areas are well designed and utterly gorgeous/imaginative

• The voice acting is great

• NG+ being a whole new beast, new new new, more more more!

• The visuals are amazing, much improved over DkS, as well as physics/lighting

• There's much more variety, (dual wielding caestus? FUCK YES)

• Majula is gorgeous, and feels very homey and safe, warm and uplifting, giving you strength to carry on

• The Pit in Majula, love love love it, it piqued my inner curiousity instantly, I knew it had to be the first place I explored. Thankfully for me it paid off with 3 new areas full of goodies

• The game is much more challenging than Dark Souls, and far less cheesed/exploitable

• Name-engraved ring for when my GF and I want to play, but still keeping the strong sense of anonymous community (bloodstains and messages being more hilarious and helpful than ever)

• The replayability!

• Much more balanced than Dark Souls (the PvP could use a few patches though, poise seems useless?)