Biggest issue with this game is the performance, 90% of the time I cannot average over 40 FPS on a 3080 with a Ryzen 7 5800X & 16 GB of RAM.

The other big issue with this game is the camera, it's crap.
With the amount of dashing around and flying most of the bosses do, the camera tracking & limited field of view handle it awfully.
For some fights it becomes like you are fighting with a blindfold on.
Never had an issue like this with DS1 or DS3.

There's also the issue with a lot of bosses having little to no window for hitting back, and will often AOE attack you if you get more than 1 hit in, breaking your combo and satisfaction.

One last smaller gripe is that a lot of bosses that are copy pasted, the minor erdtree avatars, dragons and a lot of crypt bosses are identical save for minor things like colour.

TL;DR: Game will be great when they fix the performance issues and the god awful camera.

Update: Since playing further I can report the game is prone to crashes and freezing, the latter of which can happen during important fights. Considering the way they have framed the awful camera as a 'feature', I wouldn't be surprised if the crashes & freezes are framed this way too.

Biggest issue with this game is the performance, 90% of the time I cannot average over 40 FPS on a 3080 with a Ryzen 7 5800X & 16 GB of RAM. The other big issue with this game is the camera, it's crap. With the amount of dashing around and flying most of the bosses do, the camera tracking & limited field of view handle it awfully. For some fights it becomes like you are fighting with a blindfold on. Never had an issue like this with DS1 or DS3. There's also the issue with a lot of bosses having little to no window for hitting back, and will often AOE attack you if you get more than 1 hit in, breaking your combo and satisfaction. One last smaller gripe is that a lot of bosses that are copy pasted, the minor erdtree avatars, dragons and a lot of crypt bosses are identical save for minor things like colour. TL;DR: Game will be great when they fix the performance issues and the god awful camera. Update: Since playing further I can report the game is prone to crashes and freezing, the latter of which can happen during important fights. Considering the way they have framed the awful camera as a 'feature', I wouldn't be surprised if the crashes & freezes are framed this way too.