Been enjoying Dark Souls

I played Dark Souls maybe once or twice sometime between 2013 and 2015 and never finished it. Probably once more when it came to Switch. Since then, I never felt much of a pull to play another Souls or Souls-adjacent game. I've been vaguely curious about DS2 since learning that it is divisive in some way, I guess. I really enjoyed watching a Let's Play of Bloodborne when it came out, that game still looks sick as hell, and the lore is neat. And I felt the slightest hint of interest in Elden Ring when it was released, though not enough to ever actually follow through. I never felt any interest in Sekiro or Armored Core. I never had much interest in games with "Soulslike" combat. And I even went through a period of exhaustion with combat writ large and the concept of death in video games for a while. Recently, while looking for something to watch with dinner, my girlfriend and I threw on a stream of the McElroys playing Dark Souls with the controls split between the three of them. Over…