Dark souls 2 first impressions (PS3)

On Thursday night I purchased dark souls 2 from my local EB games. I've only played a very little bit of it and I've already found the game extremely difficult. At first I found it a little hard to get used to the controls. As I have never played the first game but I quickly got used to it. The last time I played it was yesterday (Friday the 13th of February 2015) and I only got up to the dragon rider boss battle. I may have died after two hits but I found it to be a very fun boss battle. Honestly the graphics are so much better than I expected. When I got the game I thought the graphics would be similar to those of skyrim. But they ended up blowing me away. I also found the character creator to be an amazing component to the game. I ended up spending five or ten minutes trying to figure out what class to pick. I finished my character off pretty quickly after that. Over all I've found dark souls 2 to be a very well made and extremely fun game.