game isn't as good as I thought it would be, but its still pretty epic. for a start its a horrible port, glad I pirated and have a xbox controller, otherwise I would be extremely pissed. edit also dont have to login to GFWL ;)
the open level design, art, environments, setting etc. are all fucking amazing.
the combat is clunky, but ok once you get used to it. its designed around auto lock which is always a bad thing.
there is a subtle but big difference challenging and hard. dark souls is often the latter but rarely the former. there are never any puzzles (so far) and combat is mostly a battle of numbers, with a bit of timing.
anyway i'm keep playing but I might change class. cleric seems pretty useless when you can heal yourself with the flask, I never seem to need both.
inb4 fanbois give me infamy ;)