That is the Dark Souls experience as intended 🤣😭🤣

But tell me, stranger: have you tried ... Sekiro? (think Dark Souls: Samurai-Ninja Edition) 😈

While the learning curve is just as brutal, the combat is designed to better mimick the back and forth of skilled warriors rather than the Dark Souls version which is mostly scuttling around a murderous edifice and slowly whittling it down to dust.