I played through this game a hundred times and was very happy to find it on GOG only to find out that the game is utter garbage in this version.
Enemies can stunlock you alone, dodging avails nothing as in this version enemies turn with you while dodging (but ofc your character does not under the same circumstances...), blocking is simply useless because your dumb character does not do it, however even with the fastest styles fully upgraded your enemies can block at any given time. WTH? Then of course, after you figured out how to trick the system, you go through almost any confrontation with one hand down your pants, until you meet deamons. For some reason some total crackpot thought: Yeah, you know what? In this version we'll make them live solely on cocain and delete their weaknesses.
So deamons still turn with you and are henceforth lightning fast and their strikes almost unavoidable. Their greatest weakness was being slow. Now you have a towering elephant deamon, with longer reach than yours, striking just as fast as the second fastest martial style, turning with your dodges, unable to being interrupted and all that on top of a bunch of other enemies. Good bloody job of ruining a game entirely. I am not sure if this is an issue with the GOG version, or with the latest version in general, but it's not like I could check if my version does not have the issue as it is broken. But the problems are with the version you can buy here at this point you are paying scraps for a bloody broken game.
