The game is great. I also did the Wounds of Eventide DLC (I started it by accident and just exploring). I would say there is definitely a difficulty spike towards the end game bosses and the game can be very obtuse when acquiring the relics. The NPC quest are really just fetch quests that you come back to later once you find the item somewhere else, and I mostly just forgot about some of them and probably missed a cool item or two. But those is are small in contrast to the rest of the game. The game is drowning in atmosphere and combat is amazingly fluid. The dash slash feels great to use. The rosary system is fun to play around with and I found myself changing them around all the time to fit my needs. The system with upgrading the flasks was a really clever idea too. The earlier areas feel a bit too easy compared to how it spikes after the first half. And the progression layout with the fight 3 bosses, and then fight 3 more felt a bit lazy and couldn’t been more complex. The game does really shine in its exploration, lots of branching paths with cool items and shortcuts. The teleporting didn’t kinda make the interconnectedness fall apart and each area just felt like it’s own separate world, but the structure made it that way too, but I already mentioned that. If you like Dark Souls, I couldn’t recommend it enough. It not as metriodvania than it is adventure, but it works well with the world and story its trying to tell.