Honestly, if you've played something like any Souls game (including Demon's) even for just 5mins I don't get how you could think that TW3's combat gameplay is anything else than a hot pond of steamy liquid shit. To put it mildly.
The COMBAT could be considered shitty, GAMEPLAY encompasses a lot more than combat.
The entire Souls franchise is built solely around combat, and honestly? Souls combat isn't nearly good or in depth enough to make up for how fucking shallow everything else is.
The only game in the franchise that has fun mage builds also gets shit on exponentially. The entire Souls franchise feels like Mosuo games.
lmao i've never seen souls game related to musou before (i can't stand musou games), i realise the schtick prob gets a bit tired, and the fan-base is pretentious (i have played a little Bloodborne, before that only DaSo and Demon's Souls, so it's been a while and i can't comment on criticism of the later games); but when Souls first started being thrown around as a great game there was a lot more to why people liked it than it simply having great combat. the story is intentionally light and enigmatic - this is not a shallow decision, but one of the strongest design aspects of the game when coupled with it's clawing atmosphere. less is more in this case, and the level design allows for some of the most genuine adventure and puzzle solving found in any rpg. it was something i hadn't felt when playing a game for a long time; a few games i have had that feeling with were Ultima VII, Doom, BoFIII, getting really far in nethack, MTG, MGS, civ II, SC2k, Syndicate Wars, CoD4, FFXII etc. but it wasn't my ignorance/inexperience, it was genuinely fresh and unique in a way no-one had been willing to risk with a modern 3d rpg (i know, king's field and shadow tower. haven't actually played 'em. i would like to play shadow tower some time).
sorry to reply to such an old comment, it was just such a strange hot take i couldn't help myself. i agree the two games are barely comparable aside from very surface level elements. both are also almost the sole two series that have kept me mildly interested in modern RPGs, and are the pinnacle of what im looking for from their respective niches. whenever i read tru gam3rs saying X is bad because souls combat is so much better i really want to murder them in the digital realm, but i also understand the fervent love of the games.