been coaching a new player through this (I’ve never played it past the first few minutes, too grey). discovering via guides that down-attacks are critical, wondering how to explain “you must practise and master this move that has no signposting or use currently so later you’re not hard-blocked”
there could have been an NPC talking about how punching the bouncy mushrooms gets them delightfully sick air
console media capture is so helpful for this, we can review a boss fight, pause, “what’s going to happen next”, play, “count the attacks, 1 1-2, 1 1-2”, “how far across the screen did that charge attack go, ah so where’s a safe place to stand”, etc
biggest struggle so far is to convince them to use the d-pad instead of the stick