>In soulslike games, it's expected that your hand isn't going to be held and you might blindly walk into areas for which you're severely under equipped.
Game even goes out of it's way to place Sellia Crystal Tunnel teleporter extremely close to start point if you immediately start going east.
What I like about the game is that once you’ve been down a path once, you can usually repeat it without stopping to fight or getting hurt. That cave is a prime example, it only takes about 10 seconds to get from the place you get trapped to the site of Grace once you know where it is.
Game even goes out of it's way to place Sellia Crystal Tunnel teleporter extremely close to start point if you immediately start going east.