I play on Normal difficulty, keep in mind. The combat in this game has several problems which frustrate to the point of it just not being fun. You can't cancel or back out of attack animations. Inputs sometimes feel unresponsive. Enemy attack animations are forced to connect so even if you dodge away from them, they literally slide across the floor to stick to you to continue whatever barrage of attacks they're delivering. The unblockable attacks on some enemies are so frequent and random that it's almost impossible to find a way in and when you do, it only takes off a fraction of their block meter which refills if you're not aggressive enough. Such strange stuff. It's just not fun. Was this first game like this? I can't remember.