If you've played games like this before its not bad. Usually the first time you face each type monster is enough to figure out how they attack so you'll know how to defend the 2nd time. The monsters telegraph their attacks very obviously so after that first time you just have to figure out what types of damage the monster resists and what type its weak to.

There is a quite a bit of grinding for resources. Most resources have to be prepared and then finished resource condense raw resources by quite a bit. Exploring, hunting, and mining will take up quite a bit of your time while you are outside and gardening and smelting will take up quite a bit of your in base time.