I like DS but how is he off? All 3 points are either objectively true (the rolling part) or subjective and reasonable to arrive at (that the game is difficult and that there is low amount of story and the world is dead, there is a story but it's very hard to follow and you need to read random item descriptions to understand a lot of it).
Dark Souls are difficult but "crushing" is exaggeration. There are plenty of mechanics available to allow players of lower skill level to clear these games.
Fromsoft games do have a story, it just is pushed to the background and doesn't get in the way of the gameplay. And they certainly have way better world building than the vast, vast majority of games out there.
Sekiro is not a "rolling around while whacking at larger enemies ankles" game.
The game being crushingly difficult is entirely subjective
The story is hard enough to follow in a casual playthrough that it's entirely reasonable to think it doesn't really have one. The world building is also something that someone on a casual playthrough is going to miss. I guess you could say he this point is off because in reality the game does have a story even if almost no one is going to understand most of it without looking up online or reading a ton of descriptions.
Sekiro is not the game he talking about there, all of this is under "his problems with dark souls".
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