I must say when i first heard about this game and its art style i was excited.  Well i got the game today and started it up...and i must say they completely killed it for me with this huge amount of blur in the game.  Honostly i would say about 80-85% of the screen is blured at any given point leaving you with this thin strip of screen to actually see the awesome art style.  Im a i doing something wrong? is there some way i can turn this off?

It's depth of field blur i.e. trying to replicate how a camera can only focus on a given distance particularly when looking at things close up.

Having a look at some other screens of the game it seems the effect is less pronounced when the camera is further away from the character, which also makes sense when relating it to photography.

Do you have control over the camera, can you zoom out?

Play with Camera B,don't use Camera D when you play.

ya pull the camera out a little, the problem is the angle your playing at is using a depth of field blur, i gotta say the game is awesome though im on the third dungeon and im stuck LOL and getting to that third dungeon was an even bigger pain in the ass.

the demons souls references are everywhere its classic

yea that fixed it for me, thanks everyone