What's the correct way to play this game?
The first boss on hard mode is beatable (I got to his second form first try after learning easier perfect parries) but your abilities feel nonexistent. Your dodge sucks, your jump sucks, your block sucks, your attacks suck, and all the enemies have hyper armor. It seems like the only thing the game wants me to do is repeatedly perfect parry and perfect dodge.


Am I supposed to be whittling down damage sponges for 10 minutes with the only noteworthy damage coming from fatal attacks after I perfect parry them 8 times, then repeating that another 4 times?
Does the game want me to grind skill points to increase my damage?