I'M HERE TO KILL CHAOS! Or in other words, I played the demo for Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origins. I'm not the biggest fan of Souls-like combat and I think this game has some of the same issues I have with Souls-like combat in general.
Sometimes its too janky for its own good and super annoying when fighting multiple enemies because of how janky it is....BUT, I will say, I actually kind of enjoyed this demo more than I thought I would. I wish the combat was more Ninja Gaiden and less Souls-like but what can you do? At least Team Ninja make a fun varient of Souls-like combat, I guess.
Also, either the demo is lenient or the game is just easier in general than most Souls games. Granted, you do at least have a difficulty option out of the gate and I did go with Normal because I'm admittedly shit at Souls-like games. But I didn't find this demo all that hard to beat. It was surprisingly easier than expected. Maye it's because you can switch out jobs on the fly given you instant access to Mage powers that made this seem easier to me. It was much easier to sometimes stand at a distance and throw out mage powers on certain enemies.
I don't know, the demo did leave me interested to maybe check out more of this...but yeah, I just wish it wasn't the janky Souls-like combat. Unpopular opinion, but I really don't like the jank of Souls combat in general.