My first day playing sekiro

This is my last soulsborne game to play and platinum.

I first see a cool ass cutscene then after that I stealth my way to my master. I kill my first enemy then I deflect my first attack and feel like samurai jack (I got humbled soon), I enter a mighty battle with few salamanders (random lizards in a water) then we escape the castle after one or two deaths. Bad guys shows up, and after I beat his ass ( Yeah I know I am soo good, I definatly beat him without dying easly, this game is easy ) he throws me pocket sand and cuts my arm of. I wake up to a random hairy dude who made me a better arm. I see women, I practice me skills with a nice undead, I travell trough the area till I reach a women who gave me bell, I give money to a homeless dude who kindly tells me about exsistiance of an fire arm tool. I listen dudes and hear that the monkey man is weak to fire. I look around and cant find fire tool. I get killed my monkey, I wake up and see hairy dude got sick, I go back in past and get an axe and fire arm tool. I go beat monkey with fire arm and oils. Easy fight (I only died 2 -3 times) then I die to some general because I was distiracted by mesage and I call it a day (I also got a shity shuruken thrower arm tool to but its ass)

So far I like the game, hard but I am pretty sure will get hang of deflecting. Idk where to progress tho, the peresent time or the burning castle that is three years ago in past