The winner is the PlayStation exclusive Bloodborne
Its really not the best in the genre and any true souls fan should know this. I don't feel like digging back into my post history to re-explain why this is...soooo here we go again.
Bloodborne had several issues
- My biggest pet peeve was the bell maiden. Being able to outright prevent invasions took a lot of the danger out of the game for me. I didn't like having the choice.
- Customization of gear was dumbed down to the point where it really seemed inconsequential what gear you went with.
- Weapon modes in stead of more weapons. Weapons largely uninteresting except for a select few.
- Completely neutered magic system.
- Chalice Dungeons...don't get me started on this tacked-on feature. What's worse is that they locked weapon variation in this bore-fest. Unnecessarily complicated dungeon codes and teaming up with a buddy in them was often a futile practice. Absolutely hated them.
Don't get me wrong. I loved the movement, I liked the setting. The story was damn cool and gun-parrying was very satisfying. Bloodborne also had the best bosses of all the souls games, even Sekiro (if you wanna count Sekiro as a Soulsborne game). DLC was great as well, but Dark Souls 3 finally had an easily accessible arena mode and I'd argue Dark souls 1 had the best DLC of all the games.