Watching people play it on Twitch and reading threads on neo, /VG/, and a few other places most of the players reactions are that the game is easy. So easy in fact that you can hold down the R1 button to win every fight and never have to parry or dodge. You also gain back 99% of your life due to life steal. Even if neither of those things mean much to you it is still concerning. Edit: Honestly, it deserves the lowest ranking in the series, imo. I've just beaten Gerhman, and the game is not better than Dark Souls 2. Not even close. Gone are the memorable npc's like blacksmiths, vendors and others. Gone is the reward for killing enemies. Gone is the reward and interest for killing bosses. Can't make weapons from boss "souls", can't find weapons in the wild, literally no point to fighting any enemy what so ever other than bosses. The worst hub world out of all 4 games, one NPC in it, no black smith, just an empty -blam!-ing table and fireplace. It's the most soulless game of them all. It seems like it didn't even have half the dev time or men on board as the other projects. Even so lazy as to attach sound files to level geometry and call them npc's. It doesn't feel like a Fromsoft game. I'm starting to think more and more this is actually a JapanStudio game and Fromsoft only supplied the base mechanics work and maybe concepting. Game is the absolute streamlined nightmare I hoped Souls would never become. The chalice dungeons have turned the game into -blam!-ing shitty loot table mmo thing instead of actual builds, they replaced variety with algorithm spice on weapons. It's just -blam!-ing crap and lame. None of it makes sense. Why are you allways having a gun equipped, if parry timing is as hard as dark souls, but the distance parries don't work because you need to be close enough to initiate the riposte anyway? And about that. No riposte using the unique weapons animations? Just a stock standard fist punch thing? The game has lack of effort or quick development written all over it. I'm not going to be surprised by the credits when I finish to find out that Miyazaki is the only name on the list who had anything to do with souls games. The game doesn't have have half the content depth of the FIRST QUARTER of Dark Souls for -blam!-s sake.