I really don't like the first area much at all, specifically how the rest of the game is tied behind Father G. I get this could be seen as like a tutorial sort of level, but I feel like that should have ended with Cleric Beast instead. Father G forms this bottleneck because of it. Taurus Demon was really hard in DkS for new players, but you could at least explore other areas of you were bored like the Catacombs and New Londo.
The new summoning system is a straight downgrade. It's way too easy to waste insight for no reason as a summoner. Adding in markers for people ringing their resonant bell and selecting one would fix this I think.
I realize there's apparently more options later in the game, and I bet they kept it until late game to keep the "you vs beasts" feel of the early game, but there is less variety, and that's not great.
I don't like how relatively confusing the story is. In Dark Souls it was obvious what you were supposed to do, but hear it's not so much. You're told to go to the cathedral, but when you go there you don't know if the chapel is the cathedral or what, and once you actually get there and beat a boss and see a vision that doesn't make sense and somehow you're supposed to know that one of the lines from that vision was a password to a door and now I'm in the woods and I have no idea why. I know I'm looking for paleblood, but I feel like things are a little too muddled, and you're seeing that in all the posts here about stuff like "where do I go after ____?"
