The first Dark Souls has a dense and interwined that map that was promotes exploration to find way so that you can circle back to a bonfire. For much of the playthrough you can't warp between bonfires, and upgrading weapsons take a bit more resource management than later titles.

It's arguably the most difficult of the all the Souls games, much of that is due to the limited moveset with each weapon and unforgiving falls..

Dark Souls still is playable thanks to the remasters which ups the framerate and even outs the bumps. The soundtrack was done by Motoi Sakuraba. What's your favorite theme? Start a dialogue in the comments.