This game made me want to play dark souls II.

Real Review:
Where to even start
The gameplay feels clunky and rough for some reason
The enemy design gets boring quickly because they just reuse the same enemies throughout the whole game and just up their health and damage
You'll kill a boss and then face it as a normal enemy like 5 minutes later, this doesn't work you need more time in between this for it to feel better
God awful level design, the whole other world just felt like a nuisance the whole time I was actively trying to avoid it
The boss design is actually terrible, all the bosses felt like they were designed with dark souls I as an inspiration because that’s how complicated their movesets are. The only issue with this is that this game came out in 2024 and Dark Souls I is over 10 years old
For real the bosses are pretty bad for the most part, about halfway through the aesthetic improves and they're cool looking but at the end of the day their movesets aren't complicated and thus makes this game trivial. I never spent more than 1-3 attempts on a boss and it leads for a lacking experience due to a lack of satisfaction
For the love of god if you make a soulslike you cant make the final boss a deacons of the deep ripoff i cant even explain how much of a let down this was even for this let down of a game
Honestly the most mid soulslike I have ever played I have no idea how I powered through it, the only redeeming quality was the weapon and armor designes were good for the most part.
-1 for the ceo being a rightwing grifter as well
4/10

Dark Souls II (2015)
There's so much wrong with this game
At the end of the day it's just not fun compared to the other souls games
The losing 5 percent health after death is a terrible idea
All the bosses feel lame and just have simple movesets
The only thing this game has going for it is the backstab animations are really good and Majula is pretty
There's so many terrible run backs
I frames being tied to a stat that isn't explained is bad game design
The reuse of bosses as normal enemies five minutes after you beat them
I can't find many redeeming qualities
If you want to experience a good fromsoft game play 1 or 3
I'd rather play lords of the fallen
2/10