The lore is a mashed together mess, it doesn't really add anything significant and relies too heavily on "Hey remember this from Dark Souls 1?" or "This item from Dark Souls 2 is here because uhhhh time is ♥♥♥♥♥♥ up and the world is ending"

The combat is boring and easy. You just use you 10k iframes roll to dodge any attack in the game, which you have to do since they pretty much killed off poise so that the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ weapon arts could have a function in the game. Magic is nowhere near as fun as it was in previous games, and if you want to do a pure mage build, say goodbye to healing items.

The pvp is an awful R1 spam mess with worse net code than Dark Souls 2, and even when you do get an invasion with a decent connection, you will undoubtedly be up again a host with 2-3 phantoms all with a seemingly infinite supply of estus.

Overall this game is an overrated piece of trash, and honestly so is the community surrounding this game.