Scadutree fragment/Sekiro leveling design in Soulsborne. Thoughts?

[Machina]

Darashiva said:

LegitHyperbole said:

I done a new game plus run at the point I had 10 fragments, by the time I looped back around I just had to pick up the easy ones again to max out so I'll never know how the exploration went properly in this DLC. Surely it had to be a headache, no? I searched online for most of the ridiculously hard places to come across but you'd be stuck in one section so close to another section while the route to it is either ten feet away or across the other side of the map and you'd never know. It was extremely frustrating, Idk how people can enjoy or defend that over designed complexity of the map or how anyone got through it organically without having an aneurism. 

I think I was at blessing level 18 before I looked up where the last few remaining fragments were, so I never found looking for them all that annoying. The last couple were certainly in places I never would have thought to look.

I kinda did the same. I had to use a map to go back and find the last few when I was really struggling with the final boss. It was a little bit tedious because I wasn't always sure which ones I'd already gotten, so I was revisiting some areas to eliminate any doubt.