Moveset variety is good, boss movesets are varied. I only played DS1 so I'm not too familiar with parry based games.
Pressing Advance on controller while talking to Kouta doesn't work so I have to use fast-forward. Being midair before the first tutorial box causes a game freeze. Camera also lets me do this which is on the unintentional side.
I was also able to softlock the game by returning to the cathedral right before the leaping suplex attack.