I watched a youtube video once that they figured out the guy was cheating via Mario’s eye blinking pattern. Good for them I say. I’m not a speedrunner but I love watching speedruns and it’s really really lame if you’re cheating. Just get good.
That’s when I played. When it first released and for a few years afterwards. I usually played with friends at a high level though so maybe I just wasn’t exposed to trolls like that enough to form a memory.
So your argument against playing for longer than an hour and getting good is playing less than two hours and refunding? You need to play the game for a few hours to understand the combat systems and the way that enemies react.
This is not a berating statement. This is a question followed by a statement of fact. Neither of which is scolding the OP.
You could have suggested them to ignore the tree sentinel or Margit, hoever was their first enemy, you could have suggested the to explore the game and ignore hard enemies just like in skyrim we ignored trolls, bears or dragons until we levelled up… Idk, anything but “you didn’t even try how dare you say you don’t like it” wtf.
The first enemy is meant to destroy you. You skip him and find other things to do and come back later when you’ve leveled up. It’s an open world game.