I liked it but I think the base game provided a more balanced experience. I loved the Maria boss fight and the Orphan of Kos boss fight. Fun, balanced, tough but fair. Living Failures were laughably easy, which every Souls-like has a boss like that so it's fine. But Ludwig? HATED him. Did not enjoy the challenge at all. Took me about a week, thought the fight was very clunky, his movement was very weirdly programmed. But everything else was really good, the exploration is still great, the enemy types are fun, the areas are unique. It's good!