i've "only" played 23 hours of this game as of writing this but i think i can safely say this is my favorite game of all time unless the rest of the game drops the ball really hard. It takes everything good from previous souls game, and adds its own things on top of it, the open world is so good and feels so natural for the serie you really end up wondering why it wasn't always like this, and the fights are as fun and challenging as ever