I mean yeah, it's difficult, very difficult. But I think the Souls fans overhyped the difficulty. I thought the difficulty was perfect when it comes to hard difficulties. Difficult, but not insane.
Example: I was easily able to kill Father Grisgone (probably misspelled that but I'm too lazy to check) on my first try, with plenty of blood vials to spare.
Edit 1: I just got to the Unseen Village and Cainhurst Castle. I was wrong. I was so very wrong.
Edit 2: I beat the game! Now to play again to get the other endings and [b]holy crap this'll never end will it[/b]
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It's better than Dark Souls 2 difficulty. I probably only died under 10 times in my first playthrough apart from that BS optional dragon boss.