Master parry bro. It's not souls like in combat, you have to parry. There are bosses later in the game which are almost impossible to beat without parry.
In terms of mechanics, it's not as punishing as other souls games.
After playing this (coming from FF16 directly). FF16 combat felt lackluster to me. To each his own I guess.
The punchy feeling is indeed missing but that is because of trashy sound effect. Gets much better from mid game, when you get more weapons.
Gamingbolt was releasing like 5 videos every single day before its release, all were hyping up the game alone. So much so that there was a wave of unsubsription from the channel's subscribers.
They probably have taken so much money that they become completely blind. Just read comments from last week. They said stop but they keep on spamming videos after videos.
What a shitshow!