Great presentation, lovely characters, but the combat design needs a lot of work. I played on Challenging difficulty, yet I never felt like I was truly in any danger; not even the final boss was all that hard. The ending was also kind of a letdown.
I also encountered several odd bugs. For one, after the first bonfire scene the game simply didn't fade the screen back in; I had to reload an earlier save and redo that scene for it to go through. Second, both times I tried using an Ariadne's Thread, I got warped out of bounds instead of to a bonfire.