Same, I literally can't get past the first soldier fight because the timing and coordination is so insanely hard.
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Every update has lowered the difficulty so far. And it will be lowered again in v.0.2.0 - but I'm making more content before I release that.
The guard shouldn't be that much harder than the boars if you understand his "feint" attack. I might still lower his damage a bit since some people are struggling with him.
I definitely didnt really understand any of the special combat mechanics from the explanation. Took me into the later fights to really understand them. As I said previously I am not good at these types of games in particular but it is very neat that this actually is functioning. Very rarely do we see this kind of effort put into this kind of game. Probably just that a lot of people arent used to actual mechanics and want to get on with it.