I had a great time with the first 3/4ths of this game. There's a nice sense of exploration, and though there's obviously some padding with a game of this type/size, it didn't feel barren or monotonous like many others (looking at you, Breath of the Wild). There's a good balance between the open world environments and the "dungeons" that feel like regular Souls levels.

Unfortunately, after Morgott, the game tanks hard. Pouring one out for my fellow Strength builders, because they decided to make subsequent bosses straight out of Sekiro, and actively hostile to anyone who isn't a fast weapon iframe master. Bosses healing on hits, or stacking dots on you even when blocked? Now that's some garbage.

Then, finally, you get to the last boss. It's alright! And then you get to the second phase, which is maybe the single worst boss in any Souls game. After about 5 hours I finally won because it glitched out and stopped moving. An appropriately anticlimactic ending to a game I enjoyed once upon a time.