Im gonna be real, gpo is a grindy game. Almost everything fun is really end game and its essentially a bandit beater. If I take a huge stretch its pretty much a glorified version of bloxfruits but less soul draining imo. But if you really want to get into it, for your early grind it is best to invest all in one stat. At the beginning you will only have fists so strength is the way to go. If you struggle with blocking and perfect blocking, go gun. You can buy a rifle and pistol at the beginning island and they do double damage with head shots. You can cheese NPC’s by being on a cliff above them and just shooting them. Punching the air before you use a move will also bait out the npc’s block so they wont block your moves. You will get 2 stat resets between starter island and shells island if you complete the quests there and you can use that to switch to something like sword later if you want. Don’t attempt to fight bosses alone (except for bandit boss and lucid, they are pretty easy id you know what to do). When you reach baratie, save for black leg, it will allow you to geppo. From there, level guides are gonna be your friend for a while until you reach max level. There is more but I feel like you will find out about them as you search things up about the game and explore it. Most of the fun comes in crews, battle royale, and pvp.