Recent reviews by Shertgun

+ Visually stunning in level and art design
+ lamp mechanic used just in the right amount (1 free death, extra exploration and lore)
+ maps loop back and are connected
+ huge variety of weapons / spells / throwables
+ fashion souls with recolor ability
+ boss design is awesome
+ good performance with ue5

- quests are obscure and easy to miss and fail
- story as any other souls game the biggest weak point
- not that many different enemies, same enemies reused in later areas but they have more hp
- bosses used as normal enemies too often
- many gank ambushes
- parrying not easy / worth it

overall this is my favorite souls like by far: 7.5/10 - upcoming changes can push this even higher

Edit: Is fixed now, making a second play through way more enjoyable.

Still crashing 70% of the time when trying to load a game. I am at The Graveyard checkpoint and here it crashes 100% for me when loading the game.
Once it loaded it works fine, but the game play loop for me was rather exhausting and making me tired.