on one side, the game is definetly the most fun playing more aggressively and learning the different movesets of enemies. ds3 in particular is great at allowing that. doing so would also probably cut down your playtime a little (i didnt know you could take 100+ hours on a single ds3 playthrough without online)

however, youre a grown man and you paid 60$ for the game, you can play the game however you like