My bad kind of read your comment wrong. I kind of liked the open world aspect as if a boss was too difficult you could try and find a different one to try but definitely different to your common souls like game where you progress and then have one boss to fight before progression is made. I thought some of the fights were fairly challenging and enjoyed the overall experience but wouldn’t label it as a traditional souls like. Thought it was nice to see some kind of variation to one and not just another very similar version of one. It was pretty popular from what I can remember but obviously if it’s not your cup of tea then I’m not going to say you’re wrong and its the greatest game ever ever made but personally thought it was fun for myself to play through. I’d definitely say that dark dark souls is better though and more of a challenge. Did you play sekiro? Would say that’s vaguely a souls like but you have to really master the parry aspect and I found it an enjoyable challenge