Underrated, good experience. Sadly unfinished, this game had the most potential of them all, and the vision they had shines through the game in the most unpolished way possible... and yet it came out decent, still.
Much of the game is ugly and clunky, and has many problems relating to balance (structurally wise) and gets confusing at points because it was unfinished and rushed. Many of the bosses are forgettable, others are very cool. This is the only souls where you'll actually get to using your arsenal like spells, hexes, miracles and consumables without being violated with dumb imput reading, letting you enjoy the bosses for once; the bosses themselves are pretty easy to defeat, but they're much more enjoyable than the Eldenspam. I wish i got to this game before getting burned out of souls.
The artstyle and art direction is all over the place, making the enemies seem out of place more times than one. And yet, it has some of the coolest enemies i've seen in this game. Had they kept the style of Nashandra, Veldstadt, Vendrick, the Mirror knight, The Giants, the Chariot, or places like Majula, the Bastille, Heide, Aldia's keep... the game would have been much better art-wise. And much less poop-green coded.
This is the most alive of the souls. It speaks to you, it asks questions, wants answers, and leaves you to wonder if you "chose right"... just to end up realising we were the ones doubting ourselves all along.
This could have been one of the greatest games of all time, unparalleled in its era AND the current one.
If i had to trade DS3 remastered, the whole game of Elden Ring, that piece of trash Sekiro for this game to be remade from the ground up as they envisioned, i would. Ten times over.
A tragic tale of ambition. And yet, its spoils still cast some light.
