This game does tell a good story, but it spends way too long trying to tell it. The pacing is bad and the way the game's structured makes the whole thing feel disjointed. I liked the dynamic between the two brothers as that aspect is really relatable to me, but that's probably the only thing I like about this game. It introduces cool characters but gives them too little screentime; and fills that time with trying to tackle political issues but doesn't delve deep enough into them to make it interesting which as a result makes them feel like an afterthought.

I didn't think I would appreciate Dark Souls 3 as much before playing it. But I was having a great time even as early as the first proper area, where I had a ton of fun just exploring and finding items and shortcuts connecting an area in the most fun way. Some of the highlights of my playthrough was just finding a random path during a boss runback and accidentally finding a shorter path to that boss from a bonfire. And the bosses in this are some of the best I've ever fought in a game. I'll forever cherish fighting and eventually beating Abyss Watchers and the final boss of the base game.
I also played both the dlcs but didn't like them as much as the main game as they weren't that memorable.