>>86787191i saw a guide and somehow i was missing like two separate entire areas
ds3 is the first dark souls game i beat without a guide because i got stuck not knowing where to go in ds1 and ds2
but even after that, there are weird hidden things like apparently you have to gesture in front of a statue somewhere to unlock an area, and have to camouflage in a swamp to unlock a door, never figured out where greirat went or who to give the sorcery scrolls to after yoel dies or who to give the grave warden pyromancy tome to