The content was longer than I felt should have been, and a lot of dungeons and bosses are way too repetitive or yield something that's useless to your build. Something similar happens with the enemies, there is a lot of variety in the beginning but then only a few types of enemies are added.

I personally enjoyed more the hand-crafted linear exploration of the dark souls games (like navigating without a map), the open world format makes reaching places less special in my opinion.

That being said, the music, ambientation, hitbox precision and all the different support for playing and making your own build with different spells, ashes of war and talisman is something completely out of this world. This iteration really adds diversity and accessibility in builds compared to other souls.

The content was longer than I felt should have been, and a lot of dungeons and bosses are way too repetitive or yield something that's useless to your build. Something similar happens with the enemies, there is a lot of variety in the beginning but then only a few types of enemies are added. I personally enjoyed more the hand-crafted linear exploration of the dark souls games (like navigating without a map), the open world format makes reaching places less special in my opinion. That being said, the music, ambientation, hitbox precision and all the different support for playing and making your own build with different spells, ashes of war and talisman is something completely out of this world. This iteration really adds diversity and accessibility in builds compared to other souls.