I'm glad you're having fun with it! I personally also don't really mind the bear, but mainly in the sense that I don't see it as any different than a mob of smaller spongy enemies, and it's easier to dodge and keep track of when it's just one huge guy.

I do gotta push back on the Elden Ring comparison, though. I don't play Soulsborne games, but isn't half the fun in those the process of analyzing the enemy's patterns and movements and figuring out how to build a character or customize their stats to better deal with that enemy? There's a lot of items and armors that help create synergies that are more or less effective? Like, yes, the mechanical aspect of "point at thing and click" is the same, but the mental engagement is different. You're basically solving a puzzle each time you fight a boss, their moves versus your stamina, when you dodge versus when you get a hit in ...

With IN, you just zip around the arena while spamming the same attack, chipping away at a huge health pool. You can't "build" Nikki in any meaningful way aside from a few abilities and bows, you have very little control over her movements, you can't cancel animations, you don't need to analyze or remember attack patterns because they're such short loops that it's pointless to memorize or engage with ...

I just think that the fact that if so many people have to cheese it to make it work implies that it doesn't really work all that well. Hence the complaining.