I have no guide and I must scream.

Beginner here.

On the advice of this sub, I decided to jump into the first game that took my eye (and was on sale,) so I picked up Minstrel Song.

Going in completely blind I decided to just pick the character who I thought looked coolest so i went with....Sif.

Now I'm running around the mountains and having fun fighting to learn moves and train, but apparently Sif is the WORST starting character for beginners and 'training' too much is actually going to be a hinderance later on so I should be desperately avoiding every battle possible.

What the hell do I do? I have no idea if it's worth continuing or should I just start fresh with a more 'introduction friendly' character?

Please help.