For reference, I have platinum trophy on BloodBorne and level 430 in NG+10. I know what a difficult game is. This one is bitter sweet for me. I liked it a lot but there were things that pisses me off from time to time. The game was kind of well balanced for almost his entirety maybe except for the first tiger boss, but after going back to get some spells I was missing and some extra power, I've actually been able to pass through. Some bosses I made it through at first try while others after 5 to 20 tries which is still ok. My problems started with Erlang Sheen. I spent days on this boss and almost quit the game. The jump in difficulty was insane and nonsensical. There was no point in having a game difficulty "5" for 60 hours and all of a sudden jumping the difficulty from 5 to 20 in the last boss(talking about Erlang, not the wise sage ).Also the platinum trophy is beyond stupidity. You have to spend hours and hours hoping for a random drop that no matter how many "dropping bust items" you wear ,it will almost never happens. Also the input command is not accurate at all, one of the worst I've ever played with.A lot of time I find myself pressing button and there is a huge delay or nothing happened(only with this game). Beside these problems the story is good, graphics great and mechanics are cool. Just fix the nonsense.
UPDATE: After the update I only have complaints to talk about. They ""fixed"" all the bosses making them way harder. Erlang like if wasn't difficult enough got a big buff and now he countered literally everything you do and the previous mechanichs no longer work. The boss fight is just you dodging nonstop for the whole fight with no way of breaking his shield or combos except for the fan which you can basically only use once. On top of that, they gave him a ton of new endless combo so basically in order to beat him you must became a god in dodging. I do not understand how people find this fight entertaing, you must literally play in 1way and ONLY 1 way in order to win otherwise you'll lose. There is no variety in the way you can play the fight because nothing else is going to work. If you find some fun in a fight where you can only dodge, well that's up to you. I do not. Unlike other people I do not have the time or the will to become world champion in video games so for me this game is a big NO. If I wanted a FROMSOFTWARE game I would have bought that. This feel even worst because they changed the rules after the game was release and made it insanely difficult and if you skip this boss you won't be able to complete the game properly. My philosophy is pretty easy, if is more frustrating than entertaing is not worth my time. To be clear I was on NG+4 before got the platinum before the update so my complain is not for lack of skills. I went back to check if they fixed some stuff with the update and for me they made it worse.