My only complaint is that sometimes there are too many paths?

Playing the game on gamepass and around 20 hours in and just finished chapter 4. As a souls fan having played every souls game and other souls like games, I usually don’t progress until I’ve opened all the short cuts and explored every little corner. However sometimes I feel there are way too many paths that I literally tell myself to come back to the same spot after exploring one path, but that path ends up branching into 3 different paths with shortcuts and NPCs.

I feel the game messes up with my head in terms of direction and path finding. The path finding actually reminds me about of code vein than souls games. In the souls game you at least get a sense which path is going to lead to a boss and which one is going to open a shortcut, but in this game I’ve ended up in the boss room by mistake at for two bosses.

Other than that the game is great so far and it’s got me hooked.