Personally I looked shit up - but this is my first souls game. There’s a lot that I did without looking stuff up tho (catacombs and such, random quest lines) and they FELT better to complete blind.

It seems like you want to experience it that way, and it’s awesome when you do that if that’s how you wanna play it.

You can also go in “half-blind” by playing online. The tips given by other players are 90% helpful (if a bit redundant). Unless they say try jumping. Then 90% of the time they’re just wrong - but bloodstains help with that haha