Game is great, solid 8/10. its a relatively short linear dark fantasy action rpg

What to expect from this game: it is a slower paced action rpg similar to Dark Souls 1 and 2, The games controls are fine now after all the patches.

Combat no longer feels clunky, and animations for bosses are all fixed for 1.5

Game visually looks fantastic, even on medium settings
Only issue is lighting in some areas is abysmally dark even with contrast and brightness set to max in game. I honestly dont know if those settings even work properly.

Armors and weapons look really good, the only gripe i have are that some armors dont modify the players undergarments when they are clearly visible so it makes the character look goofy instead of cool.

Multiplayer works better than the souls series in concept, coop is for everything and dosnt end after a boss fight or if any of the players die. Items are dropped for both players but the currency given to cooperators is way lower than the host.
The problem with it is that in most good coop sessions there is very noticeable latency, and at the worst times you are rubber banding/frozen/not able to attack enemies etc.

The game is mostly linear, you are able to chose where you wanna go after the first few early areas but are gatekept in the very beginning unless you want to shell out 18,000 vigor for a key to unlock what are scaled as later areas. So there is an intended route to take from the area scalings to get the key later for free

One major flaw in gameplay is information for weapons, the rune system is bloodborne's gem system but worse. We dont get statistical information on runes, and the weapon's information card dosnt change except for runes that give more or less scaling. For example if a weapon has C scaling in agility and at 10 agility does 100 dmg +10 scaling dmg and rune says increased agility scaling the weapon card will show a bump in rank from c to c+ but the numbers wont show the extra damage. Also radiance runes are all pretty garbage and make many sentinel weapons unfavorable to use since you basically lose 1 or 2 slots since they require a radiance rune to be in them.