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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I don't like it. You move while locked on defeating the lock on purpose. For example. If you lock on and circle the enemies left your character faces that way instead of strafing. And the more you level up the easier it gets. Yes all dark souls are like that but this one is the worst with it. In ds1 I was 176 on ng+5 and getting my shit pushed in. In 3 I'm 207 ng+6 I think and still get -blam!-ed up. Dark souls 2 I'm 200 something and don't even think I've gone ng+ yet but I kill everything too quickly. Dlc though gave me a rough time and still is but normal game is honestly too easy with how the leveling is. That's just how I see it though