I could write 40 paragraphs on everything I dislike about this games design but I'll try to keep this brief. Fromsoft has been coasting off the same reused ideas and assets for a long time, but only in this game did they manage to be lazy about literally everything, including their own laziness. The amount of new things added into this can be counted on your fingers, and for all the old stuff shoehorned into this game, they somehow managed to bring back not even the bare minimum.
No new enemies, no new weapons (not counting the garbage starting weapons everyone ditches as soon as possible) and every POI is just a straight rip from Eldenring or a bunch of assets mashed together.
Speaking of assets, we couldn't get more than one map??? We're stuck with Limgrave base tileset 1? No Caelid, Liurnia, Altus, Snowfield? Slapping a random forest or mountain in the corner does not make absolutely no difference to me or anyone I've played with.
As for weapons, they wanna make a big deal about bringing bosses from old games, but we can't get weapons/enemies from old games?? No Lothric knights? No Lion warriors? And no NEW ENEMIES? Not one??! The closes we got is the spiders from Dukes dear Freja, but I don't even count that.
And where is the DLC content? They could've added in light greatswords, backhand blades, martial arts, ETC, not to mention a ton of DLC enemies thrown into the mix, and yet to my knowledge only the Golden hippo made it in.
Seriously, they could've gone full nostalgia and loaded this game with 20 more hours of content but they were lazy about their own laziness. I'm ashamed I bought this game