so yeah, the game just have been relised and it's pretty much a dark souls clone, except it's a decent one, compared to dark souls 2.

+ it does support my custom resolution, no need for crutches like dsfix or gedosato
+ textures aren't blurry low-res broken-contrast piece of shit dark souls 2 have
+ parry is decent
+ wombo-combos with weapons
+ yes it have classic backstabs and you can execute them any time if you stand right, not what you can read on reviews as "stealth attacks"
+ reasonably challenging
+ combat is VERY fluid
+ equipment looks unique
+ nice loot mechanics
+ the more souls points you have on you unspent, the more good loot multiplier you have, think of it as gold serpent ring made a baby with ?lord? greatsword
+ i've seen word "materials" so there are possibly upgrades or even craft

- does not support custom controllers except xbox360, even x360ce (emulator) didn't help me, so i had to use xpadder with distance zones to imitate it. i will try again to get x360ce working, but it is fine already as it is with xpadder.
- some enemies are hard to telegraph for parry, may be i'm not used to yet, just half a hour of gameplay so far.
- combat may be TOO fluid at times, but still better than dark souls 2 clunkiness
- can't parry without shield, so i feel like a pussy having to equip it.
- no character creation, but i wasn't really bothered with it, still could be a nice thing to have.

+/- (neutral) actual story telling instead of lore. some people may like it, some ds tryhards might say that it's bad, for me - indifferent.
+/- (neutral) artstyle is pretty general modern fantasy rpg game (witcher, dragon age), but it's consistent, so no opinion on this. again, more about tastes, but clearly better than dark souls 2 broken contrast imo.

problems you might encounter and how to fix it:

1) game may crash on startup if you run multi-monitor setup
solved by changing settings.ini fulscreen true into fullscreenwindowed true

2) game does not recognize any custom controllers except xbox360
try to get it work with x360ce, if it doesn't work (what happened to me), then you can solve it by downloading xpadder and setting it up. walking/running with distance zones, run/roll with tap/hold. no problems here.

currently playing as thief with daggers and hand shield, parrying everything and having a blast, what else can i say?

must-buy game, way better than dark souls 2 imo in terms of fluid controls, graphics and general consistency.

it is obviously pale comparing to dark souls 1, but still a great fun.

my rating 9/10 so far, will update for story and gameplay mechanics differences later as i will see them