I've been having a mostly easy time so far. Killed most everything as a dual wielding katana (ugi +19 and moon +8) in one or two attempts. Then reached the two crucible knights part and well that took more than a couple attempts. Didn't have a summon that wouldn't die in 5 seconds. First time I got a little flustered and may have cursed FromSoftware a bit. Beat that then found this heavenly place full of scarlet rot and cursed a bit more. Dudes got a fetish for sure.
Need to finish up Lyndell but then I found an underground hellhole with some really overpowered ugly fat dudes. Think you're gonna get through an area then you find out there's like 5 more areas that are each that size or larger hidden within the main area. If I was asked to pick one game and one game only, this would definitely be the game.