A soul is precisely what this game lacks...
(and probably what some of it's diehard fans lack too)

For real overrated doesn't even describe it,

Even this being it's 3rd part it still has no moving mouths and endless vague monologues...
Like a good friend of mine once said on this matter: "it's a cheap way to makeup for the lack of story".
You really have to be either a drug addict or stuck with you head in the clouds in order to beable to appreciate that sort of thing because boy let me tell you, this one aint for the down-to-earth amongst us but let's move on to the combat:
First you pick a difficulty/class the two are tied together where's Knight is easy and Deprived is hard and all the others are somewhere in between, then after that all you have to do is roll-dodge, attack, repeat oh and sometimes drink a potion when you made a mistake.
Don't get me wrong the proper execution of this certainly is hard (yet not as hardcore as people claim).
In fact the hardest ever-present bossfight is it's awkward camera angle, that's when this game's difficulty truly shines.
Then there's the 'multiplayer' it's sad that it was so half-arsed for it is the only thing that made this game somewhat fun well at times... I guess it's random encounter pvp is there just to add another level of difficulty being matched against random tryhards out there whenether you where just about to save or turn in a quest or just prepping for the usual bossfight. People tend to call it a 'unique' pvp system but it's nowhere near as unique as it's especially unique co-op system: You require items to summon up to two or three friends where's 2 out of the 3 just get instant disconnected most of the time (doesn't refund the item btw) but in the rare occasions it does succeed (after the necessary retry or 6), you've got yourself a party in all colours of the rainbow out there. Now ofcourse there's a way to appear 'normal coloured' in a friend's game but that requires another item, same with the communication emotes by the way which is the epitome of uniqueness: You have to throw rocks at one another in order to say; "hello, thank you, very good, I'm sorry" I only got them very late after I finished the game already but that might've been just me. Wish I could've just had a chatbar honestly but yeah sure it's funny I'll give it that...
Speaking of humour, the only likeable npc aside the onion knight who has produced the most interesting dialogue so far is probably the blacksmith that says slightly less incoherent stuff with an actual moving mouth! And with him having the only moving mouth in the game I had long suspected of being the secret final boss or somebody important, well more important then that lady that keeps telling you to 'touch the darkness inside her' atleast but ah well...
Now I could go on for abit there (there's quite alot of points to still comment on) but as I've received this game as a gift from a friend I find it rude to stomp it any further. That's right I never would've gotten or played this game if it wasn't gifted to me, heck I'd be ashamed to have this ♥♥♥♥♥♥ game in my library otherwise. Especially after witnessing how abysmal it's first game already was back on one of them consoles at the time.
But for real I'll stop there, you see I'm not usually one for writing long ass reviews on a piece of scat but what can I say... the quarantine has hit me hard enough to waste some words on this ♥♥♥♥-stain within my library.

In short:

Couldn't get enough out of it's previous parts already? Then go ahead by all means buy it, you probably won't be disappointed for this is exactly that very same game (roll-dodge to win + no moving mouths or coherent story included).

New to Dark Souls and thinking of giving this 'RPG' a spin? I would really suggest to pass on this one...
In all the time I was playing this lineair shizzle I kept thinking: "Hey I could give Dragons Dogma another try, heck even Dragon Age... or some other RPG" along the way I was even thinking of Namco's field expertise and conjuring up thoughts of giving their actual good games a try like Tekken. And after snarky comments like: "You're just old!" , "you just don't like hard games" I suddenly realized I started to miss games like (2D) Castlevania and Metroid or other games that are genuinely hard without the help of an awkward 3rd person camera and 'ring outs' in way too small fighting arenas (or oversized bosses, take a pick). You see I think this is one of those games that tried to be a little of each genre but came out pretty mediocre in each of these.
So again don't go expecting a solid RPG, a fighter or a proper metroidvania because it aint.

+it works with a mouse + keyboard (I've played the entire game with it due to the lack of a controller at the time and can safely say it is doable -ish)
-it doesn't show which keys do what (yeah you have to figure out those yourself by trial and error but that's just extra gameplay right?)

I was asked to give my personal opinion on the matter, take it for what it is.