Game does feel kinda “designed after industry trends” and one thing I did very much like about Fromsofts game so far was that they weren’t as “progression/grind/run-based” as so many other games out there (like it’s just not designed for you to play the same piece of game over and over again hoping for a random drop or something) and this seems to very much go into the opposite direction from that, but on the other hand, I do very much enjoy playing these games in coop (just this past weekend I did a dark souls 1 randomizer run with two friends) and the different characters and abilities and stuff all do seem pretty cool. Probably going to just be good mindless fun even if there’s kind of a bad aftertaste. I just hope all these side projects let them really take their time with their next big RPG