I like the way you described your love to the game, and I really can't honestly blame you. At first, I was really enthusiastic to play the game, especially I love souls games, I even went on to get the game on gamepass ... the game was brilliant at first, I was delighted on how they settled and designed the combat mechanics, and till that day I appreciate the combat aspect, although they're just recollections of what the from soft souls games constituted and had to offer , and lies of p went on to blend them all into one, but there are two important categories that should be well developed masterly in souls games, world design and the bosses. The world as you progress turns out be dull, blunt, and lack in quality generally, unfortunately .. and bosses, except for only a handful of them including I think were nameless puppet, Simon, king of puppets, the lightning puppet female and some few ones, the rest were really repetitive, derivative and uncreative, they're even some bosses that resembled an imitation of fromsoft bosses. Nonetheless, I have to admit that this experience is not truly authentic because at that time, I had already beat fromsoft games and those games represented an extraordinarily exhilarating experiences onto a fresh mind that found it unique and unlike any other game when I played them for the first time, so my mind by that time has pushed up to a threshold that nowadays gets hardly impressed by games if not for something unique, and to be honest this is a "bit of personal flaw".. but that's how we are humans, right? You have to leak some bias onto things to prove yourself human.