I played Dark souls 1 and Dark souls 3 before Ds2:SotFS, and even with that ds2 is my favorite. Its challenging but never really gets really frustrating like the others, the game performs beautifully, and I love the freedom offered by things like the soul vessels.
I also like how you get some choices on where to go first at some points, mainly in the beginning and at the memory sequence part.
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It's an amazing game. Better than DS3, but slightly worse than the original. It gets far too much hate. Than it deserves. It's a well thought out game but my only problem is the human effigy/ permanent hp loss thing.