Ashes of Ariandel has these nasty ass house fly enemies that trigger my pteronarcophobia like nothing else. Absolutely disgusting. Why Miyazaki?!?

So the level design was passable. There were these high damage bird warriors that were a real pain in the ass as well as some interesting bird creatures that were suffering a painful corruption. They really went all out with evoking my fear of house flies though. There's this disgusting sewer-esque area that is filled to the brim with the aforementioned fly creatures and they swarm you and spit parasites into you causing you to bleed continuously.

There's also this optional area where you have to carefully descend to the bottom of the map, while annoying warriors shoot high impact arrows at you and after trying and suffering a lot of times, I just decided to shoot the warriors. This caused one of them to glitch out and pull out his huge melee weapon, thus disabling his contribution to my suffering. And at the bottom was nothing but a mediocre optional boss.

Finally, there's Sister Friede and I can't really say I'm in love with my boss fight. Stylistically, it lacks the subtle coolness of the greats of From Software's best. The cutscenes with Father Ariandel are corny because he sounds so whiny and he just flails around which stuck in his chair in a way that doesn't intrigue me. Less is more, it's quite a surprise to see that the Old Hunters did so well in the cool factor, when From Software's next DLC would be one of the lamest.

Along with that, I honestly didn't like the fact that it was a three phase boss fight that had you cutting down three HP bars. I prefer the old way of doing things where you would just have a giant HP bar and the phase would transition throughout the fight like in Bloodborne, but that's just me.

I feel that Friede's boss design is reminiscent of what came later with Elden Ring in a bad way. So much AOE and the need to dodge extra stuff that makes things feel way too hectic for its own good. Maybe I'll come around to this style someday, but for now, I'd much rather stick with the older FromSoft titles.

Worst DLC Fromsoft has created and it is not even close.

Friede is a broken boss having 20+ flaws with unfun phases except the 3rd phase has something going on.

Gravetender is interesting and i like the fight but for most people it is worse than Friede something i don't agree with but that is pretty much it for the DLC. 2 bosses, one boss being rushed, broken, unfun and the other one being not enjoyable for 95% of the playerbase.

A proposta da história dessa DLC se passar num mundo pintado é legal, explora um conceito que até então não havia sido retornado ou muito bem explorado no primeiro jogo mas a expansão poderia ter sido sim muito mais do que ela é. O mapa é muito curto e pode ser fechado em papo de umas 3-4 horinhas, só tem 2 chefes (que apesar de muito bons ainda são só 2), tem alguns inimigos meio chatos de lidar e no geral não agrega muita coisa na história do jogo, poderia ao menos ter sido vendida por um preço melhor.