I hope you like it. The controls are a refinement of ds1, but they’re basically the same joysticks for movement + camera, shoulder buttons for hands.

Some last advice from me:

• you don’t have to kill everything. You can often just walk away or run past.
• you can almost always leave and come back later after leveling up, improving your equipment, or just clearing your head.
• read item descriptions
• pay attention to the UI. When you look at a weapon, it will tell you what stats you need for it and what stats increase its damage.
• read the help text for the UI. I think you push select and move the cursor around to get the explainers.
• HP is the most important thing. Don’t neglect it when leveling up. Stamina is also important. There are a lot of videos online of people getting one shot by bosses because they have like the minimum possible HP. Don’t do that.
• dying doesn’t really matter. It feels bad, but you get used to it.