yep, im also one of the player who likes to play as pure route as i can in 1st playthrough in this types of game but first playthrough basically kinda forced you to go normal route ending, basically unlocking passives to be used in new playthrough, i play this game for a total 3 playthrough just to get all normal, true and corruption or bad ending, the latter is the easist since you have high level char, companions and end game gears brought or crafts and also passives that lets you not encounter monster at all and just breeze through the game, true ending is where most of this game content is, some of passives also unlocks only when you go that route too, so yea if it too much then i can understand that and probably skip this game too