As from dlcs go I actually had a much harder time enjoying this one over the others. Areas felt incomplete and empty, lots of main game copy paste content or even dlc copy paste content like the stupid hippos. The tedious easter egg hunt for skibbidy fragments and weird power scaling. And the atrocious final boss.
Overall I still enjoyed it and the map was beautiful to look at and fun to explore but it feels like a concentration of all the main games flaws. There's very few fun things to find in the world lots of crafting trash and upgrade materials, surprisingly few useful spells weapons or armor some just flat out worse than whats available in the main game. The skibbidy level scaling felt strange, i struggled with the dlcs bosses until i hit skibbidy level 17 and suddenly they melt within a few hits, i don't really know how many i need for each fight.
The boss fights that are there are solidly enjoyable, messmer is probably the most fun one to fight. The furnace golems are the STUPIDEST thing from has ever made, painfully tedious and very frustrating copy paste trash thats just a waste of time.
Final boss i had to respec cos no matter what i tried i got minced in the second phase. What worked? Fucking fingerprint shield and pokey stick. The most unenjoyable gameplay method of sitting behind a shield and its really effective. If i don't use that i need frame perfect dodges and perfect focus for 10 minutes or longer with bo opportunity to make mistakes. First phase was fine but wtf am i supposed to do in the second phase? Be perfect?
I loved it. Some areas are a bit empty, bosses are balanced wierd sometimes, yes, but it didn't seem any harder than the hardest parts of the main game, but I also explored as much as possible before tackling bosses so I was pretty powerful at that point, and I use summons at every opportunity just to draw the fire of the hard bosses because I don't like having to dodge perfectly for five minutes just to get a couple hits in, and then be one shotted by an AoE attack in the second phase.
I had a great time just slowly and carefully exploring most of the DLC. Making it to the cerulean coast was just
. I really enjoyed the haunted woods, too, even though it turns out to be a pretty small area with not much in it as a reward.