I may rewrite this but to narrow down how I feel, The multiplayer at release for a full year didn't work for more than 5 or 15 minutes at a time for me which now 2 years later has supposedly been remedied but I wouldn't know since if I ever play this game again It'll always be with people with the seamless coop mod, Which I think aspects of should just be part of the game like; getting rid of most of the fog walls that make no sense so you don't spend 5 minutes just to go into a low quality copy paste dungeon and horses in multiplayer to explore open world.
I really feel the game is overrated as well, Not that its a bad product but since it feels like a regression in most ways for most of the game from previous FromSoft titles I can only feel disappointed in it. From the Overtuned boring bosses that feel very generic and boring with perpetual deathspin attacks or they fly into the sky and back onto you and blatantly broken hitboxes to artificially make the gamer harder or the flashy weapons that suck ♥♥♥♥, or copy and pasted dungeons that are just so monotonous to go through. I also made substantial progress little playtime I have and was able to see a lot of what the game has to offer, and while there were a lot of cool things scattered about it made me feel like the open world is just poorly executed overall and a better option would have kept it similar to DS3 with branching paths into larger areas so that the game keeps the feeling of exploration alive while also being able to show off all the neat things that were within the open world. With all of this in mind and constantly in the back of my mind while I play, I just cant bring myself to enjoy this game or care about the lore because it falls flat in the face so hard especially in the light of their previous entries and that I think just really sours it for me. One day I will try to revisit this game and give it another go, but for now this game overhyped and mediocre in my eyes and I feel no more desire to keep going.

I may rewrite this but to narrow down how I feel, The multiplayer at release for a full year didn't work for more than 5 or 15 minutes at a time for me which now 2 years later has supposedly been remedied but I wouldn't know since if I ever play this game again It'll always be with people with the seamless coop mod, Which I think aspects of should just be part of the game like; getting rid of most of the fog walls that make no sense so you don't spend 5 minutes just to go into a low quality copy paste dungeon and horses in multiplayer to explore open world. I really feel the game is overrated as well, Not that its a bad product but since it feels like a regression in most ways for most of the game from previous FromSoft titles I can only feel disappointed in it. From the Overtuned boring bosses that feel very generic and boring with perpetual deathspin attacks or they fly into the sky and back onto you and blatantly broken hitboxes to artificially make the gamer harder or the flashy weapons that suck dick, or copy and pasted dungeons that are just so monotonous to go through. I also made substantial progress little playtime I have and was able to see a lot of what the game has to offer, and while there were a lot of cool things scattered about it made me feel like the open world is just poorly executed overall and a better option would have kept it similar to DS3 with branching paths into larger areas so that the game keeps the feeling of exploration alive while also being able to show off all the neat things that were within the open world. With all of this in mind and constantly in the back of my mind while I play, I just cant bring myself to enjoy this game or care about the lore because it falls flat in the face so hard especially in the light of their previous entries and that I think just really sours it for me. One day I will try to revisit this game and give it another go, but for now this game overhyped and mediocre in my eyes and I feel no more desire to keep going.