I'm astonished that the developer has given up on this seemingly without a single word or announcement. Which is a shame, because the new project they are developing is more or less the same exact thing as this game, with the same kind of problems. Arguably, it's even worse, since it gets rid of the Demon Soul's/Berserk aesthetic and replaces it with a subpar outdoor realm dream nonsense reminiscent of something akin to Dawn of Corruption (But with little of what makes that game so engaging as far as growing a character from six foot to sixty and beyond). Did they just not learn at all? None of (Or perhaps a little bit) of the criticism given here was overly mean spirited or hateful, and yet they're just doing the same thing that caused many people to become frustrated with the gameplay.
It's like they're ripping up a piece of paper to shreds and trying to recreate the same exact thing with those same shreds of paper.