The open mostly empty world ruins the game for me. I'm a dedicated fan of all souls games, Bloodborne, and sekiro and I don't want to ride a horse forever just to find hidden stuff on the unmarked map. Also combat has devolved to something more slow like Demon Souls, while a lot of enemies are extremely aggressive and have a way better moveset than you. The chalice like mini dungeon are so small, and the legacy dungeons are not big enough. The surrounding open areas are huge and and empty. I would say that this is the second worst souls game besides Dark souls 2.