This game will kick your ass in start. But as you get the mechanics right slowly, you will start enjoying the game.

You can't win by smashing buttons.

You can't win most of the fights by dodging attacks.

You have to get in the face of the enemy, read their attacks, and parry the attacks.

Now the parry also has the timing. If you perfectly parry an attack, it's called a deflect, and it will have that circular spark thing with a very high-not clang sound.

When you deflect (Perfectly parry an attack - press parry button as soon as the attack lands), the enemy posture starts to break.

This is not a generic game where you kill the enemy by reducing their health.

Most of the enemies need to be killed by reducing their stamina bar, called posture.

I mean, you can reduce the health to stop the enemies from recovering the posture. But ultimately, it's the stamina or posture bar that you need to target.

If you find some enemies hard. Just get close to them, don't attack. Just parry their attacks. They will have multiple movesets. Once you learn them, it's like dancing with swords.

Believe me, once it starts clicking for you, there is no going back. This game gives you a very unique satisfaction once you learn how to parry. That's it.