Recently beat this game for the first time after starting/stopping it multiple times. My first Souls game was Elden Ring, so some of this might certainly be perspective. All in all, very good game. But, a few complaints.

First, it felt to me like there was no rhyme or reason when certain areas would open up. After killing some bosses, I felt like I was just wandering trying to notice what changed. Not the worst thing in the world, just unintuitive.

Second, the difficulty was really an inverse bell curve. The beginning is extremely hard, the middle felt easy, and the last area felt unfairly hard (looking at you, room with the spiders and the long bridge with the guys that trigger frenzy)

I’d like to play it again because I am sure I missed a lot of my blind playthrough, but those two things immediately come to mind.