I felt like it was less a game like DS or Bayonetta where you have to learn move sets and patterns but react in the moment to deal with it and think on your feet, and rather an exercise in remembering which pixel you need to be positioned on at certain points and memorising phases of attacks.
Could be wrong, but I felt there was room to screw up in those other games and still do well. Here it’s more ‘memorise it all through repetition or quit’.
But I keep meaning to go back and try it again.