The game is difficult although, unlike with the souls titles, this one lets you play pretty much at your own peace, skipping anything that you are finding too hard until you feel up to the challenge. The world is a 100% free roam open world, so you can basically go whenever you want from start. You can also be whatever you want, even the craziest (broken) character builds can be viable if you know how to exploit them properly.
Big fuss was made regarding the performance and I hope they fix it in the future because the game has no performance and graphics, the art style but not a graphics.
Also a few things wanna say about difficulty. I've beaten this game 5 times already and I totally agree with dunkey review:

"Very poor balancing, many of your deaths in this game do not feel earned, so many enemies in this game can kill you in one hit or kill you with a combo that comes out so fast feels like one hit or they can just kill you in one grab straight up. Having super aggressive enemies with crazy combos and unpredictable attacks is the fun kind of difficult but making those moves hit for your entire health bar is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ lame and cheap."

The game is difficult although, unlike with the souls titles, this one lets you play pretty much at your own peace, skipping anything that you are finding too hard until you feel up to the challenge. The world is a 100% free roam open world, so you can basically go whenever you want from start. You can also be whatever you want, even the craziest (broken) character builds can be viable if you know how to exploit them properly. Big fuss was made regarding the performance and I hope they fix it in the future because the game has no performance and graphics, the art style but not a graphics. Also a few things wanna say about difficulty. I've beaten this game 5 times already and I totally agree with [i]dunkey[/i] review: [i]"Very poor balancing, many of your deaths in this game do not feel earned, so many enemies in this game can kill you in one hit or kill you with a combo that comes out so fast feels like one hit or they can just kill you in one grab straight up. Having super aggressive enemies with crazy combos and unpredictable attacks is the fun kind of difficult but making those moves hit for your entire health bar is fucking lame and cheap."[/i]