It's hard, but offers more options to facilitate gameplay than the others in the series. Devs seem to encourage communication with the player community as a mea

It's hard, but offers more options to facilitate gameplay than the others in the series. Devs seem to encourage communication with the player community as a means to get ahead, but really, players just read the fextralife wiki guide which can trivialize (most of) the game. Use the exploits if you find it too hard. I think the quest system was a glaring failure that did not translate well from the previous games, where you were all but guaranteed to stumble into NPCs just by going this way or that. Without checking the wiki I probably wouldn't have completed many. That aside, it's a huge success with a ridiculous amount of content. An average FS game would take me 40-50 hours, this one took 120+ to complete, and that's skipping some catacombs.