I didn't get this one at all. On normal difficult it feels like I can just ignore all the mechanics and mash, and cleared the game in just over a year when you have a time limit of three. I never once got to see the card game mini-game that apparently exists from the tutorial. Timing hits to stop attacks? Doesn't seem to matter, your autoblocks recover absurdly fast so who cares; in fact with good armour selected you apparently WANT to get hit so you trigger a high damage counterattack and end the fights sooner. Special moves? Again, timing didn't seem to matter so just leave them on autocast and keep mashing.
I mean none of these devs games were exactly hard, but it felt like some of the older ones you at least had try once in a while.