Recent reviews by Dspace

I dumped 70 hours into it in my first 6 days of playing it. God help my soul.

The individual fights don't have as many highlights as some other Soulsborne games, but there is just so much more to do compared to the rest. It can easily make up for that.
Music is quite a bit weaker than earlier titles, but this is hardly damning, as FromSoft has a track record of incredible music, so that just means the music is slightly above average rather than their usual excellence.
Hopefully the DLC can fix both of these issues.

The side questlines are a little unintuitive as is the progression paths.
It's also quite easy to end up accidentally in situations where you are either massively over or massively under-leveled for an area over your playtime. Equally, it is quite possible to end up accidentally breaking NPC questlines, with nothing to tell you what you did wrong bar asking online. Far from ideal.
Both issues come across as growing pains as the developers transition from a linear to a much more non-linear game structure. Hopefully this shall be resolved in the sequel that I expect is bound to happen.

Stat scaling is also a touch unintuitive. For those approaching blind, Vigor scales non-linearly, rising and then falling in value per level, peaking in value as one levels from 30-40. I mention this stat first, as lack of this knowledge can easily gimp one's progression as one finds oneself getting one shot by most hits if one doesn't bother with vigor soon enough as one can do in other Soulsborne games. Other stats scale much the same.

A few mechanics and areas come across as rather clearly underdeveloped, the easiest example to point towards being "Madness" as a status effect, being massively underrepresented, and the areas associated with it seeming rather barren. Hopefully this will end up being resolved in DLC and was just a result of limited development time.

Either way, game is real good and worth buying if you are already a fan of the series, or if you think the open world might help you approach the game if previous games had too much of a barrier to entry. Hoping very much for DLC in the same vein as the Dark Souls 1 DLC, with significantly harder bosses.

I got to kill demons, that is pretty nifty