My consensus after finishing my first souls game

2 days ago I finished DS1 and that could be considered my first proper souls experience, here are some thoughts I’ve amassed since then

Positives:

World: amazing world filled with amazing locations, loves uncovering new places and slowly piecing together the lore

Playstyle variety: incredible variety that has something for everyone, allowed for a smooth transition between quality and strength for me personally and there’s is so much stuff I haven’t even touched

OST: not my favorite ost of all time but it was pretty damn good, that O&S theme was the only thing keeping me sane during that fight

Negatives:

Boss runbacks: quite a few unnecessary and annoying runbacks that were a big waste of time and made me lose concentrations many times

Hitboxes: various enemies but mostly bosses has clunky hitboxes, which led to a lot of avoidable deaths

Fatigue: this is more my personal thing than the game itself but a lot of parts were pretty mentally exhausting which didn’t really allow me to have long productive sessions a lot of the times

Overall: had a decent amount of fun with it, was happy when it was finally said and done but enjoyed the ride, not a game I see myself replaying but planning to play the other ones eventually