Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

Once you master the parrying, you become unstoppable. Once again, Fromsoftware manages to create a fantastic, magical world. The game mechanics are perfect and exploring the world is so much fun. Shout out to FightinCowboy for helping me throughout the adventure. The difficulty might intimidate people but you just need to persevere.

Une expérience globalement satisfaisante. J’ai passé un bon moment du début à la fin.

Знаете... Я понимаю за что эту игру любят, за новые механики, за отличительный геймплей от соулсов, но... всё же это очень тяжело назвать действительно близким к соулс-лайку. Эта игра построена на парированиях, и я не особо такое люблю. Игру я прошел дважды на Плейстейшен 4 и 5. Но лично для меня это не самый лучший проект Хидетако Миядзаки, но крайне качественный, с механикой стелса даже. Секиро местами намного хардкорнее всех Соулс-Лайк игр, но эта сложность идет не в уворотах и действительно тяжелых моментах боссов, а в парированиях всего подряд.

I have tried, so so hard, to love this one. I love every other FromSoft game. I love being challenged -- I think it's extremely rewarding. I love the utter, unabashed Japanese-ness of this game -- I truly do. It just, so unfortunately, ****. It ****. And that makes me sad. It is a game that robs you of options on how to play. There is also zero payoff to killing bosses -- there's more of a "good riddance" feeling, rather than a "good battle" feeling after killing a boss that you've been bashing your head against the wall trying to eliminate for days. I hate the control scheme as well. I hate how repetitive it is, and I hate that it actively tries to punish you for dying. The Souls formula (and yes, I am going to relate it to the other ones, because they introduce the same dying mechanic, so I am going to criticize how they erred on it in this one) is perverted greatly by actively punishing you by dying more and more. It was a bad mechanic in DS2, and it was a bad mechanic in Demon's Souls. I can say, for certain, that I am totally sad that I do not like this game, but I can also say, for certain, that I do not like this game.

This game was a huge disappointment for me at launch and it has only gotten worse after I played Elden Ring. Sekiro is japanese Dark Souls but most of the good stuff is gone. - Worst customization of the series, because there isnt any. - Worst gameplay of the series. Fromsoftware can make games with a hundred weapons that all feel great, so if they make a game with just one weapon it would result in absolutely god tier gameplay, right? No. Its just one dimensional Katana bashing all the time and nothing else. Not really better than using a Katana in all their other games. Gets boring after the first few areas. Also it straight up doesnt work when fighting multiple enemies at once and all the other minor problems these games have (bad camera, weird hit boxes etc) are still there. - Worst online of the series because there isnt any as well. No coop, no pvp, nothing. - Worst overall content of the series, most bosses and all mini bosses and even some areas get reused multiple times. 3x Ashina castle, really? This is lazy. All the other Souls games have way more content and Elden Ring is probably ten times bigger than Sekiro. - Besides that its not better than the other games at anything. Bloodborne and DS3 still have the same or even better overall quality than Sekiro and ER and the Demon´s Souls Remake absolutely dunk on it. If Elden Ring is a $60 game Sekiro would be $5. Good that Fromsoftware got away from this misguided garbage.