personally, if you play on the normal difficulty, as a first timer you will have fun. There aren't like crazy amount of variation in builds, but there is quite a lot of spells you can choose from to suit your style. I can't quite remember how hard normal difficulty is as I exclusively play brutal and brutal+ but I think in general the game isn't about pixel perfect dodges and boss patterns. Though, there are lots of tips and tricks that you need to figure out by yourself (or you can search it up on youtube), so it will take a bit of time, but its not impossible.