Soldato
It'sa mechanic that makes the game harder by giving enemies more vit/posture resistance and increasing the damage to your vit/posture, you have to ring a certain bell to get a Sinister Burden. It increases the drops of items, I'm using it in NG+
You can also enable a different hardship but I didn't have the balls for that in NG+
Ahhh yeah I seen that you could do that actually, I might do it if I ever finish the game for the second play through haha where abouts do you go to ring it? what’s the other hardship then not heard of that one?