I personally do feel like everyone should at one point try this game once in their lives. It is a special and fully crafted game, which mind you is extremely rare these days. Theres just so much content in the base game alone it is overwhelming.

2/3 parts of the game is perfectly crafted. I feel like within those timespans, all enemies are perfectly balanced and fun to fight against with even the small enemies is fun to fight with. caves unfortunately are the worst parts of the game theyre great early on since theyre unique but as more caves go on it would just be variations or just tow of the same miniboss, its dissapointing to say the least, and hardly even worth it sometimes. still though, the surface content is fun, the main bosses are glorious, and the progression is great. i rocked myself a collosal greatsword throughout the whole gameplay, and enjoyed my time with it.

questlines are handled horribly, i think if this game included like a journal book or something that does not provide handholding but just records the conversations i think it would help tremendously. it would have been a hundred percent more tolerable. most of them dont tell you anything and they be as cryptic as possible, hey little tarnished take this sword and give it to a man good luck like what? thats just terrible quest design no matter how you put it. puzzles are also cryptic and is soemtimes almost impossible without a guide its just such a weird choice to put it in the game.

the endgame is actually unfortunately the worst parts of the game. the enemies can kill you in 3 hit, and they themselves are also spongy, and they introduce bosses into normal enemies you encounter occasionally, its just bad. its poor game design at best, at an attempt to make the game difficult. and the final boss is so boring its unbelievable. its unlucky how bad it is in the end but ultimately the game is still fantastic from the start. I personally enjoyed my time with it.

9+/10

I personally do feel like everyone should at one point try this game once in their lives. It is a special and fully crafted game, which mind you is extremely rare these days. Theres just so much content in the base game alone it is overwhelming. 2/3 parts of the game is perfectly crafted. I feel like within those timespans, all enemies are perfectly balanced and fun to fight against with even the small enemies is fun to fight with. caves unfortunately are the worst parts of the game theyre great early on since theyre unique but as more caves go on it would just be variations or just tow of the same miniboss, its dissapointing to say the least, and hardly even worth it sometimes. still though, the surface content is fun, the main bosses are glorious, and the progression is great. i rocked myself a collosal greatsword throughout the whole gameplay, and enjoyed my time with it. questlines are handled horribly, i think if this game included like a journal book or something that does not provide handholding but just records the conversations i think it would help tremendously. it would have been a hundred percent more tolerable. most of them dont tell you anything and they be as cryptic as possible, hey little tarnished take this sword and give it to a man good luck like what? thats just terrible quest design no matter how you put it. puzzles are also cryptic and is soemtimes almost impossible without a guide its just such a weird choice to put it in the game. the endgame is actually unfortunately the worst parts of the game. the enemies can kill you in 3 hit, and they themselves are also spongy, and they introduce bosses into normal enemies you encounter occasionally, its just bad. its poor game design at best, at an attempt to make the game difficult. and the final boss is so boring its unbelievable. its unlucky how bad it is in the end but ultimately the game is still fantastic from the start. I personally enjoyed my time with it. 9+/10