Lore-wise differences between vanilla and SotFS

[Azkiel992]

Hello, fellow undeads.
I want to ask you how much different Lore-Wise is SotFS when compared to regular DS2 with DLCs? I have almost completed vanilla game on PS3 a year ago (I was in Drangleic Castle) and played DS1 for around 100 hours. Still, I tried SotFS recently for around 1 hour and found out that difficulty was raised by putting hordes of ganking enemies instead of changing mechanics etc.
In that hour I couldn't find that funny even with around 160 hours played for both DS1 and DS2 (PS3). Should I try and try or can I play DS2 with DLCes again and lose nothing about the lore? Wanna play DS3, which I heard is a sequel to DS1 with some small refferences to DS2, but still would like to play DS2 to find those refferences :)
I will really appreciate any opinion from those who played through both DS2 and DS2 SotFS.

[B.Ombama]

there's none. lore-wise it's the same DS2.

[TrueArchery]

Yeah, no difference at all

[Azkiel992]

I heard that some item descriptions, new enemy placement etc. affects the lore. If that's not true then I will rethink buying SotFS and playing regular DS2, as SotFS is not hard - it's just annoying as hell...

[TrueArchery]

Originally posted by Dan14NR:

I heard that some item descriptions, new enemy placement etc. affects the lore. If that's not true then I will rethink buying SotFS and playing regular DS2, as SotFS is not hard - it's just annoying as hell...

The item descriptions were actually changed in the vanilla game aswell. There was a patch just before SotFS came out, it also introduced the new boss for the vanilla game.

The only real different thing are the Forlorns and a couple of new NPC summon signs, but you can just google for those, I guess.

I mean, feel free to buy it, but it's just thrown out money if you don't enjoy the gameplay.

[Инрико Пуччэ]

They have changed descriptions for Sunset staff and Chaos Rapier and Shield. They are more associated to Felkin now rather than to Aldia. They have also expanded some lore about Vendrick, Last Giant, Shandra and Aldia but there are not major retcons or revisions of the lore.

[Azkiel992]

Okay, thanks. Gonna try SotFS that my friend own for a little more and if I'll find my way to enjoy it I will buy it. If not, I will stick to the regular DS2 and then move to DS3.
Thank you for your answers! :)