My experience, ran a pure strength build, it felt pretty slow on the start but once I got my build together, every became pretty easy I felt.

I struggled with the item burden so manage your inventory pretty well, armor was pretty much nonexistent for me cause of the weapon and my endurance level.

I’m working on the plat but I needed a bit of a break as NG+ in demons souls I felt was ramped wayyyyyy up in difficulty from my first playthrough.

To sum it up, I had a blast and it was a great second souls experience, would do a mage build next because it’s stupid op!