>"Hey guys, lets have you run back to your corpse so you don't lose your money, JUST LIKE DARK SOULS!."
>"Hey guys, let's have zero plot and NPCs that speak nonsense, JUST LIKE DARK SOULS!"
>"Hey guys, lets have really long distance between re-spawn and bosses filled with tedious filler enemies, JUST LIKE DARK SOULS!"
This shit is getting fucking old and I love the Souls series having beaten each game on at least NG+.
I really want to love this game, but certain aspects of it just make me put the controller down and walk away because I can't be fucked dealing with it.
All actually useful NPCs are a huge distance apart that you can't be fucked back tracking to just to do one thing. This is worsened by the fact that the town stays empty the entire game except for 1 shop that sells outs and never restocks anything new.
The combat system does not support enemies having "contact damage" which just feels cheap, unintuitive and lazy.
Despite having tight jumping and air control, every other action has end lag that makes any special ability other than the projectile not worth using on any enemy that isn't one shot by them.
Continuing on from this point, because literally no enemy has hit stun (other than small knock back), trying to get the jump on enemies just results in taking a hit.
I know that the charm that gives invun frames on dashing exist, but holy shit should this not be the only way to avoid an attack your in the hit frame of. The entire time playing this game I wish I had a side step dodge or some form of block.
There's more I could go into but that feels like nit picking, believe me when I say I hate ranting this because so much of the game is great but it's just ruined by what feels like a limited tool kit.