This was my answer too, except my solution was just running at the problem head first over and over until stuff despawned. I would not recommend my strategy.
IncognitoMosquito
The biggest problem with blighttown, in my opinion, is that too much of it looks the same. The layout is pretty easy to just run through if you already know where you're going, but it's so easy to get turned around or confused because of the lack of unique landmarks that it makes for a frustrating experience. I've played through the game more times than I can count so I have the route essentially memorized, but it was definitely a pain for the first... many attempts. I had the same complaint with a lot of Bloodborne where you go from one street of Victorian houses to the next street of Victorian houses. I think they cleaned up that particular problem with their game design by DS2, thankfully.
The Wikipedia entry for it is pretty scathing https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myers%E2%80%93Briggs_Type_Indicator
If you look into it further, neither of the people who designed it has any background in psychology except having read a book by Jung once.
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