Artistically speaking, the DLC is breathtaking. Environments are beautiful, diverse and engaging, and the story is very interesting. The new weapons are also quite fun, but unfortunately there isn't any weapon with the "freezing" attribute. That could have been interesting.

But unfortunately, when it comes to balance, the DLC clearly shows that the devs takes too much inspiration from Elden Ring (in the wrong way). Majority of bosses are way too strong, with huge health pools and most of them can finish you off in 2-3 hits. And this can extend to many normal enemies. They simply deal way too much damage. Every boss fight is basically a war of attrion, where a single mistake can kill you. Your character simply feels too weak, like he was a very frail puppet, made ouf of thin aluminium instead of steel. No matter how many points you invest in motivity or technique; you will never deal "enough" damage to feel you are strong. Only fable arts deal significant damage, and also they are the only attack that can't be interrupted. The other attacks (even the charged R2) will be interrupted even by the slightest breath from enemies. And of course, don't expect enemies to stagger like you do: many enemies will just continue spamming their attacks even when they are getting a charged R2 from your biggest weapon.

Don't get me wrong, I love this game. But the enemies feel so overtuned and so strong that the poor Carlo feels like a Temu puppet instead a legendary puppet made by Gepetto.