Thanks for trying the game! To answer some questions you had, to avoid getting hurt back when attacking, you need to back up or make distance between them and you some other way when attacking. So if you attack, then back away before attacking away, you can dodge the melee attacks. For the knights which have long range, you'll be better off lunging away, or using some law to stun them for example. On the topic of laws, I believe the halted sense of progression may have been related to you happening to pick laws that don't actually have an effect. For example, one of the laws you picked was "On death, get damaged." but since you are dead when you are hurt, this has no effect. If I update this in the future I'll have to make this more clear! Thanks a ton for the feedback!