Blog talk:DARK sOULS/@comment-11575002-20140909161327

This game feels severely unpolished. Take Lost Izalith as an example, there's unfinished geometry if you look at the left side of the Bed of Chaos fog door, and the whole area is just dragon butts.

Also, they could've did so much more with Ash Lake, but instead they decided to make the most linear area in the game with it.