The game took me a little over 25, maybe 26 hours on console doing all the extra areas and exploring a lot.
This is my second run, and I just took the shortest path to SoC. Like, I just didn't feel it was necessary to bash my head against NK for an hour or so when I could just beat the game first and then go do him in. My build was stock STR path (vit, edr, str) and I basically stopped leveling vigor entirely (25/26?) once I hit a thousand HP because the softcap seems to be around there and man, those diminishing returns are real >____>
Weapon path was the warrior starting weapon > broadsword > Dark Sword > Cathedral Greatsword. I also got lucky and got two lothric greatswords just randomly, thinking about leveling one of them for NK because it seems faster than CKGS is.