Nah bruh. The map is horrendous.
It's full of very specific paths you have to go through.
In the base game, you could study the map a bit and make sense of what you had to do to get from point a to b and most important areas had multiple ways of reaching them.
If you were to look at the DLC map, you would think to get to the right side of the shadow keep all you have to do is explore the shadow keep itself but no...these morons thought it would be genius to make you go through an incredibly easy to miss hole in the ground all the way at Moorth Ruins, travel through a winding cave that spits you out at Bonny Village, over bridges and mountains, all the way around the cathedral, over a flooded area with weird jumps you have to make and back into the Shadow Keep where you have to walk on beams all over the ceiling to get where you need to go.
I'm a big fan of the game now after a long time of it not clicking with me, but the base game never felt like a chore to me.
This DLC, I dread every time I can't immediately find where I need to go because it almost always results in me losing an hour or two blindly searching for steps down the sides of cliffs, hidden holes in the ground, ladders in obscure places, etc.
