I think (?) I appreciated this more the 2nd time but that was because I had more of Literally any idea wtf was happening, due to having played it already, but also cause I was looking things up the whole time which hot take you shouldn't have to do.

Did the sorceries which was pretty fun but also ended up fairly repetitive because all of the spells cooler than "shoot chunk of blue stuff" are impossible to use because your casting animation gets interrupted

I will probably play this again and do incantations only and/or dexterity type weapons etc.