The best bonding experience that you could have with a partner and the strongest example of a studio going all in on emulating it's primary aesthetic influence. I don't care much for what they wanted to emulate, but it's undeniably admirable. Anyways, Dark Souls effect, got hyped up as being skullcrushingly hard, but is mostly manageable if you keep a cool head. Some bosses are that boring type of hard, where you would just prefer to press a big red button that says "I GET IT" to skip them, but the majority of them are solid.