The tutorial is ongoing, you will find some rocks with text on them that help a little, and the bird will visit you about 10-15 times with key points. Or you can take the captain obvious approach: if you can pick something up, pick it up. If you can make one, do so. After about 5 min of that you should have found rocks and sticks and food, made a hammer, and that should spawn the bird telling you to go make a home... and from there the world opens up fast.

The graphics ... character creation is a little weird, as you can't see the character in the world at that point and don't really get how it will blend in. Its minimal, but once in game, you will match everything else. Armor covers up most of your choices anyway, and you mostly are looking at the back of your character's armor the rest of the game.

I would play through the dark forest (kill second boss) at least before giving up. If you still hate it at that point, you probably always will.