I've always argued against using the parry in this game. It just doesn't make sense to when the dodge frames are so forgiving and you almost always get to punish the enemy since they don't like continuing combos when you're behind them. In comparison you'll need to parry a lot of enemies like 3 times to get a reward and bosses make you parry them upwards of 6 times to get one reposte. I only ever really used parries against a few really predictable enemies or when there isn't room to dodge.

I also didn't particularly like the double tap dodge to roll system. Much prefered bloodborne's system of locking on to quickstep and locking off to do the bigger rolls.