Dark Souls III

- MP is back under the name FP. Spells no longer have a number of casts and instead use FP.

- Every weapon now has a skill that you activate by hitting L2. They differ from providing buffs to changing your fighting style.

- For gifts the Fire Gem is a pretty decent starting item. The life ring is the only non consumable gift you can get.

- Certain enemies are weak to fire and even the lightest tap with a fire weapon will cause them to writhe for a few seconds allowing you to get extra hits.

- There's knee deep water that slows you down. Bring a dagger and use it's quickstep weapon skill to get through quicker.

- Having trouble with a NPC fight? Use a rapier/estoc since they don't have poise and you can easily stunlock them.

- Do not worry about saving Titanite shards & Large Shards. At certain milestones in the game enemies start dropping them like candy.

- Bows like the past souls games can result in cheesing a ton of ambushes and encounters.