Butchering of series lore, clunky gameplay, broken + laggy PVP, bosses constantly recycled and re-skinned... only redeeming aspects are the locations in the game and the diversity of enemies, but even then it does a sore job of copying Dark Souls 1 with all of those mentioned, and then claims it’s a sequel without even continuing or adding anything to the storyline.
If it’s going to have the audacity to call itself Dark Souls 2, then maybe it should be connected to the first game in more than a few vague out of place references, which are in most cases just misleading and pointless.
Should’ve been called Giants’ Souls.