I've been stuck replaying this encounter so much I swear the I'M the one being farmed. Never in all my life have I felt a fight be so savagely unfair.

First of all the combat, it's just bad. My attacks are soooo slow and have massive windup and recovery it's insane. I'm basically whiffing every single attack I do as well. Meanwhile the enemy is just one angry hitbox of death and destruction constantly attached to my face. Still I get it, it's a hard game for sweaty tryhards but I do sometimes at least manage to land a hit of too. EXCEPT THE HITS THE CLIP THROUGH THEM. Worse still when that happens they then pull some stupid new move out I've never seen before where they get a bunch of free hits on ME because I hit THEM! What kind of game punishes you for attacking the enemy!? Even if you actually manage to land a hit and have it do damage they just zip away to recover without even hitting the floor. I swear last time it happened like twenty times where any damage I did do just got completely invalidated. I even tried poison and fire.

Also can we just talk about how there's always other monsters in the map? It's like the game is a permanent three on one guest starring everyone else whenever they feel like it.

Most egregious of all though, even if you did somehow manage to wade through all the unfair difficulty and knock them out they just... the game's like “okay now do it two more times” how's that even reasonable!? Why do I have to fight the exact same enemy multiple times in a row?

Look I really want to love this game but I just can't. Nothing I ever do seems to work at all. I just don't know what I'm doing here. If anyone does have any advice on how to fight the hunter I'd appreciate it because I'm at my wit's end here.