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The bosses are good. One is fantastic, the other is split by the community between being a good boss and being a tedium.
The area design, enemy variety and enemy placement are all great in this DLC. As Tiniturtle states, there's a nice atmosphere and it all flows well. The DLC is also one giant area, with only fog gates for bosses, so the whole DLC feels fluid and connected.
NPCs... there are few, but there's an interesting questline and some very telling dialogue that adds to the lore; and even includes some unique (but possibly hard to get) dialogue in the main game.
It has two bosses, one of which is optional. The main boss has three phases: player-NPC that can be stunlocked, stunlockable player-NPC with a big guy that slowly walks at you (shared healthbar), and back to just the stunlockable player-NPC.
The optional boss is a player-NPC and can be stunlocked, but when he gets to like 5% health a second enemy spawns! The most dangerous enemy of all: the wolves you've been fighting but this time it's bigger!
Honestly the crow enemies that there's like 6 of just walking around are stronger than the bosses. One of those crows could probably take on like 4 Gravetenders and 3 Friedes.
This video accurately portrays how boring these NPC invaders they call 'bosses' are.
The DLC is not less than an hour's worth. It's approximately 2 hours worth of content. I'm saying that as someone who went in, didn't die once (i.e wasn't slowed down), cleared all the enemies and bosses, picked up all the items and listened to the dialogue / finished questlines. It was about 2 hours and 30 minutes to do all of that, and I work quickly without rushing.
I've actually edited the above quote so that you can apply those changes... this guy hasn't played the DLC and you're spoiling it.
I quite liked the DLC, much more than Ringed City honestly. The bosses were nice, the area design as a whole was good, some nice armor and weapon additions.
DS3 is my least favorite out of the trilogy but I don't get the hate towards Ashes of Ariandel. Just get it, if you like DS3 then more content is good isn't it?
If my descriptions of the bosses are spoilers then your shortened description of "the main boss has 3 phases" is just as big a spoiler. In fact, when I first saw your comment yelling at me for spoiling I thought you were upset that I spoiled the surprise that this is the only boss with 3 phases. But, no, you don't care about that, and you yourself spoil it.
If I wanted to spoil it I would say that the main boss is Sister Friede, who at first is neutral towards you telling you to leave, but then when you proceed against her will she attacks you to try and kill you with the help of the friendly large-man Father Ariandel, whom you viciously murder.
I don't know who Champion's Gravetender is.
???
You could at least add a spoiler bar.
Lol, I'm easily annoyed? You yelled at me and called me an idiot because I "spoiled the bosses", then you quoted me "removing the bad parts" without actually really removing anything.
I don't like your Dark Souls spoiler name, please change it so I don't know the word Manus.
What I removed was your description of what was in the boss itself, you described the boss, you even gave its name (not that that matters considering your second post. You told the OP who the boss was in both cases.