giving the dlc credit where its due, the art direction and music is all beautifully done, plus all of the new weapons are mostly super fun to use. but i absolutely CANNOT stand the fromsoft design philosophy as of late where bosses have to be over the top with their attack chains and not give the player a single second to take any actions. i am so sick of spamming my roll button constantly in every single boss fight just to follow up with one single little poke from my weapon after what feels like running through traffic. it does not feel good nor is it satisfying. its such a shame to say that in a dlc that includes 83 bosses i can only count on maybe both hands the amount of bosses that were actually memorable AND fun to fight against. not to mention the last boss is so messed up that he literally attacks your framerate it's actually kinda hilarious. on the topic of framerate i wish the game was optimized better but oh well. hopefully in the future fromsoft will remember how to make boss encounters fun while also being challenging again instead of just going with artificial difficulty because "hard game need to be hard !!1!"

giving the dlc credit where its due, the art direction and music is all beautifully done, plus all of the new weapons are mostly super fun to use. but i absolutely CANNOT stand the fromsoft design philosophy as of late where bosses have to be over the top with their attack chains and not give the player a single second to take any actions. i am so sick of spamming my roll button constantly in every single boss fight just to follow up with one single little poke from my weapon after what feels like running through traffic. it does not feel good nor is it satisfying. its such a shame to say that in a dlc that includes 83 bosses i can only count on maybe both hands the amount of bosses that were actually memorable AND fun to fight against. not to mention the last boss is so messed up that he literally attacks your framerate it's actually kinda hilarious. on the topic of framerate i wish the game was optimized better but oh well. hopefully in the future fromsoft will remember how to make boss encounters fun while also being challenging again instead of just going with artificial difficulty because "hard game need to be hard !!1!"