The bosses are awesome but overtuned. The game makes you collect fragments in order to beat them but the fragments are nothing but a %buff so its not very engaging. Its supposed to make you explore, but of course if you are a person who values your time, you will just look them up on youtube and collect them all right away anyways. It is still worth while to explore, because thats how you obtain the *real* content in the dlc (weapons spells armor) Sometimes it just feels you are overly encouraged to leave the starting area, and ride your horse through a bunch of areas that you arent ready to properly engage with, just so you can go through all those areas again when you are ready.
Pros: everything good about fromsoftware games is here in full force. The new weapons, spells and armor are all insane. They didnt even bother balancing them which is actually a good thing: they always listen to the pvp community feedback. As a pvp enjoyer there is SO much to enjoy right now.
Cons: the system for fragments is simply obtuse. “They want you to explore and come back when youre ready” but we learned that 2 years ago when we fought margit… torrent is once again the true mvp of the game because you will be riding him to collect skibidi fragments just like you did for your golden seeds, but this time it feels marketably worse.
Dont want to end on a bad note if you love fromsoft games you should absolutely play theough this dlc. Just dont bother doing anything until collecting the fragments first or you just wont have as much fun. The bosses are still hard as hell even if you are maxed out.