Dark Souls comparison is for style only. If you were turned off by the difficulty and cheap deaths you may like it. If you were turned off by the lack of story or character building you may also not like it. I've heard it has more than DS but not by much and it sounded kinda amateurish. Darksiders had fun combat with an interesting world as well as interesting characters. Dark Souls mostly just had the interesting world and it didn't even do anything with it. I haven't actually played this game but I followed its development and watched a couple fairly objective reviews. From what I got is that it's Dark Souls without all the stress and cheap deaths. Sounded balanced to start out but they said you become super overpowered in the second half of the game