I seem to remember playing it and there were just skeletons (easy to beat skeletons at that) EVERYWHERE. I played for like 5 hours then said screw it, back to Demon's Souls. I never played Dark Souls 2, so I have no opinion on it. But yeah, DS1 seemed to be much easier and there were fewer screw-over traps, and less enemy variety. So I just didn't like it.

Demon's Souls was like a masochistic pleasure for me. Anything that game could do to screw you over, it would.