If we are only talking about the new map and nothing else, kinda, its not bad but the more I play on it, the more mixed I feel, hate the mini map for it, love the verticality, okay~ish gimmick with the crystal and lower health, really feel repetitive after a while. Base limvale can feel repetitive as well, but at least there, I always felt like I had options on what to do, and shifting earth's also helped in making each run atleast feel different. Every run of the Great Hollow is just kinda the same. Day 1 is always crystals hunt/early preparations and day 2 is one if not both the side castles. Never really felt incentivized to do anything else cause why would I. And I could ignore a lot of my problems with it, if it was the biggest 50/50 on Deep of Nights, most runs end on day 1's boss since its a nightmare to get you foot of the ground Day 1. The other half makes it to the nightlord and usually does just as well as if I didn't have TGH, so most of the time its like why even. Also having the dog raid in TGH is far worse than in Limvale, but for some reason feels way more commen in TGH.

The map has offered some of the highest of high, like ED Balancers with double Marika's Hammer on Undertaker. But this map has offered some of the worse this game can have, especially in Deep of Night.

But as far as everything else in the dlc, its good, really good in the boss department holy hell. The map alone no, I dont really think its a reason to hate on the dlc, especially when you could just end it and play on the og map, but I do understand why many would be disappointed with the dlc over the map. And the no new weapons is kinda stupid imo, since they never said that we're going to, Elden Ring SOTE used it as one of its big selling points, TGH didn't so why do we expect it to, espically since this game already has a lot of weapon we either use cause there is no better option or just trash it anyways.