Had an absolute blast with this game. It feels so weird since I've basically played backwards by playing Dark Souls 3, into Bloodborne, and now into DS1. Honestly starting off I was struggling. The beginning of the game kicked my ass. Especially areas like Blighttown and Sens fortress. But after those places I started steamrolling with my quality build. The world design is insane. The fact that everything is so interconnected and the way there's so many shortcuts all over is incredible. It obviously has to be that way since you don't get the lordvessel to bonfire warp for awhile, but still the world felt so much bigger than I expected. Big fan of the OST, stuff like the main menu theme, Gwyns theme, Ornstein and Smoughs theme, and Artorias' put me in such a trance while playing. Artorias was the boss I died to the most, I want to say 6 or 7 deaths? Mainly due to just picking bad places to heal. Fav bosses though all around difficulty, design, and lore wise I'd say Artorias for sure my #1, along with Gwyn even though he's easy af. Sif, Nito, and Manus. And the vibes in areas like Darkroot Garden and Royal Wood are soooo good man. Masterfully crafted game.

95 hours marks my completion of the main game story. I definitely plan on doing some NG+ eventually in order to complete the persona compendium, beat the reaper, fuse Messiah and max all of the social links since I didn't finish 2.

But I loved it, the 2nd half flew by. The last 3 blocks of tartarus had phenomenal visual designs and the music, which was already good, only got better in the 2nd semester and then again in January. Late game persona fusing was a ton of fun and I never minded the dungeon grinding at all. There was some pretty solid social link stories and I may have romanced 5 girls in one run lmaoo. Aigis' character arc got VERY good near the end, and the actual ending of the game was phenomenal. The Nyx fight was cool, but the events and conclusion afterwards have left me emotional.

Episode Aigis, I await you.