Weapon attack with normal damage.
Improved by Strength.
Causes Light Knockdown.
Causes Light Armor Sundering.
Can be blocked, parried, evaded.
Total Defense: 50%
Costs 4 stamina, reduced by Endurance.
Costs 3 instability, reduced by Agility.
Medium-height attack.
Only usable in melee.
A lot of attacks look like this, but you quickly realize that it's mostly parameters that all attacks share - base damage, amount of knockback, armor sundering, whether you can block/parry/evade them, and their costs. That's not a "wall of text", it's a pretty straightforward statsheet. And the game does explain what damage, armor sundering, and knockdown do (they're kind of self-explanatory in the name). The first 8 skills you see are Spring Attack (moves you to Offensive), Low Attack (attacks low), Block, Withdraw (Moves you away), Beg (Surrenders), Fade-Away (Blocks while attacking), Seduce, and Hit the Deck (Puts you on the ground). Moving over to Defensive stance, you see another 8 skills. Offensive has 13, which is the most - all the other stances are advanced stances (which have a handful of skills), Kneeling, or Seduction. It takes maybe 5 minutes if you really want to look at all of them before you allocate your 3 skill points, and you don't even have to allocate your skill points to start, as they're more for unlocking new skills than anything.
I can think of dozens of RPGs that hit you with way more information and have way more skills and complicated skill trees, and people manage those just fine. Make a new character in Baldur's Gate 3 and you could be stuck there for hours reading what everything does. And in most of those there's some strategy that you can use to avoid learning anything but a few basic mechanics.
The only reason this is a discussion is some people don't want to deal with any of this because it's a porn game. And for them, we've made workarounds.
