Enjoyable difficulty settings

After my first playthrough on story mode only ~28hours

I started a new one to focus on vampirism and found that RPG mode on story and combat on Duelist is very enjoyable. It makes the combat balanced a bit more challenging/faster but not punishing and the encounters are not so long so that you lose focus or get bored. It feels the most natural.

I think there is only 1 enemy that will attack you at 1 time and 2 ennemies ready to strike. So you should not be overwhelmed by having too many ennemies around you. Dont worry about them being behind your camera. The trick early on it blocking and directional blocks. Hit them once or twice and repeat then use special abilities of the weapons and of vampirism etc. You move a bit if you want to reset dodge for the red attacks or get enemy corpses a bit spread out on the field.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwajdyag78A