160 hours in, ng4 currently. A lot of great parts about this game, but once you've done it once it gets so boring and tedious. I loved doing my first solo run, beating the hardest bosses with no cheese or summons felt good, but that's it really. The story and side quests are so obscure and ridiculous you'd think there weren't any, the end game is bloated and needlessly drawn out but the worst by far for me is the lack of punishment window's, blatant input reading and input lag from the character. This game doesn't reward you for trying to find new windows. For me as someone who has always focused on light roll dex builds, the actions are so slow I may be heavy. Attacks leave me vulnerable all the time as you still get health chunked with 60 vig, so ultimately I'm limited to 1 or 2 safe attacks which make the fights boring and tedious. Artificial difficulty has ruined this for me