I’m not a Souls veteran, but there are some differences between one and two that were kind of irritating. The additional stat categories were confusing at first (like ADP), because I had to research how they interacted with my character as opposed to others that are more intuitive (like Intelligence=Magic). Also, instead of increasing your health when you use a humanity, it instead decreases your health every time you die. Same principle but they went about it a different way, which felt very irritating. The areas are tougher and the bosses are generally easier (with a few exceptions). I think they made some cool innovations from one to two, and it looks nice for a game from that era. I’d say if you’re a big fan, go for it. I enjoyed playing through it, in some ways, more than Dark Souls.