i’m about to have a nervous breakdown because how much I suck at this game

I hate games that are ridiculously hard to just exist in. I really want to like this game but why is it so hard!?!? I came across 2 bandits trying to find the dog and i can not beat them. I stab and slash and stab some more, I even broke the sword of one of the dudes and he literally beat me to death because his boyfriend shanked me. Fighting one enemy is hard but it seems like fighting 2 or more is impossible. HOW DO YOU BLOCK AN ATTACK THAT IS COMING IN EVERY DIRECTION!? Oh and the lock picking is aids. I hate to be a person who says this because I made fun of people for saying it for Elden Ring but fuck this game needs a difficultly slider, at least just a little. I played the first game long enough to get out of the tutorial and I saw how much better this game looks and say people say it plays better but right now the fighting feels the exact same, clunky as fuck. I love the concept of this game so fucking much but I just wanna have fun. I don’t need to be John Kingdom, but just enough where I’m not wanting to cut my balls off. The game is rough. If you actually read this far and didn’t immediately call me dogshit, thank you. I bet the game gets a lot better and easier but early game it’s rough, bad rough. Any tips would be appreciated, thank you.