So made some good progress with a combination of “git gud”, tactics and a bloody minded persistence. First off was the waves of mobs in the final parts of the Labyrinth and then the boss battle. Despite dying quite a lot on the boss battle I quite enjoyed it, the variety and invention in the boss like encounters has been really good so far. This fitted nicely in with that. The waves of increasingly tough enemies in a reasonably enclosed space just before that had me close to throwing a controller however 😃
So I now have two new worlds to explore - poked my head in each to set the difficulty. One was forest pan world and other looked a bit Bloodborney.