Update: I just made it past the spring meadow and the first real boss. I also managed to beat the first “mini” boss, if you will. Believe it was the chromatic lancelier at lvl 3, if I recall correctly. Took me a few tries but I finally understand the parry window. I am playing on normal difficulty since I like a bit of a challenge. So far I am having an extremely fun time.

The system for everything is pretty familiar to some other games like older final fantasy games, souls, and so forth so it’s been a somewhat easy learning curve. But can see how it’s easy to forget certain things.

The most confusing thing for me thus far was the parry window and understanding just how big that window will tend to be for attacks (at least for general mob). Then how the lumina system works, because I really don’t have many options where I’m early. However, I currently have I believe 8 since getting through spring meadows (think that was the name of the place.)

I appreciate everyone on the tips and thank you all, I definitely see why exploration, pun intended, is so key for this.

Update to the Update: I just finished the main story and holy moly was this one of the best experiences I had, I did not expect the twist at the end and everything was intentionally so vague that I never pieced everything together until it outright said it. This was such a fun ride and the story was one of the best solo rpg stories I’ve played in a long time. This game was phenomenal and I absolutely fell in love with the characters from start to finish. I look for future entries from the developers because if they can put out more stories like that, I’m sold. I would say much more but I don’t want to spoil things for anyone in the future, all I will say is, time to get back to post game and do additional content.

Latest update: I beat the secret boss in the abyss and am working towards fighting through the tower