The opening scenes strongly resemble what it would look like In-Universe after a player has mastered a Nintendo Hard video game, complete with Roy's internal commentary. Considering the overt references to video games, this is practically Roy Pulver's Let's Play of his very crazy day.
At first, Roy learning sword fighting in less than 50 loops feels like just too fast, given the immense skill requirements to be really good at it. However, what he really needs are bare basics to simply know how to parry, allowing him to just block Guan Yin enough to learn her entire routine and then use that knowledge for his advantage. Also, in the duel we are shown, Roy's moves are pretty lackluster, as expected from a near complete rookie, and it's all but said he's Save Scumming to win it.
