I beat it on the first try, still hated it though. I didn't like the story, I hated the mechanics. I was cursing at it the entire way through, debating if I should just die right away and swap to very easy, but didn't see how that was going to help any so just plowed through.

Then that QTE was just stupid level hard. I dropped my controller to swap to spamming E and clicking at the same time and only barely made it through (with much more cursing).

It didn't help that I was already feeling garlemald was dragging, wasn't enjoying any of the story/mechanics in the entire zone and just wanted to be done with it(and thought I was during dinner, only for *this* to pop up).

This was by far the worst part of the entire game for me, even beating out the endless Raja battles in ShB.