The extent they’ve gone to to make this like Dark Souls is pretty ridiculous, save for the animation style and different names for things it is a clone, right down to not being able to fucking pause.
Obviously with the souls series being my favourite thing ever I’m actually having fun with this though. It’s just very derivative and that schoolgirl anime bullshit earlier really pissed me off
Edit: oh yeah the level design is really similar to DS too: locked door at the start of an area that you loop back to, little paths you can take off of a cliff edge to get goodies, slightly raised areas with loot you have to loop back on and are one way (you have to drop down) etc etc