I picked up this game really recently expecting an enjoyable but “nothing special” level experience, I loved other games in the series so I am not really sure why, but honestly this game blew me away on so many levels.
The combat system completely outshines the other games from fromsoftware, it makes me wish the posture metre was in every other game, and even watching gameplay of the game after completion, I feel my finger itching for the L1 button to pull off that glorious, rewarding parry which skyrockets the quality of the game’s combat in my opinion, along with, of course, the infinitely satisfying “deathblows” that the protagonist employs after defeating an enemy.
The infamous difficulty of Sekiro is a key component to it’s success, and the many hurdles that you will face do not require skill as much as they require patience, determination and the will to learn from mistakes. THAT is what makes Sekiro’s challenges and boss battles so gratifying to overcome.
As if this style of gameplay wouldn’t work perfectly without such high quality art direction and world design, Fromsoft had to go ahead and add just that to top it all off, as they do with all of their other games. Beautiful environments, some disgusting monsters and badass samurai armour, the designs in Sekiro are really top notch.
My only real gripe with Sekiro is that it is too short - not in the corny “this game is so perfect I only wish there was more of it” kind of way - I genuinely believe that it could have seriously benefitted from an extra few hours between the penultimate and final boss, especially considering the abrupt difficulty spike between those two points. It almost feels like you could beat the game easily in one sitting due to how skippable a lot of the areas are and the fact that one of the endings literally cuts the games playtime in half.
Overall, one of the closest times any game has ever gotten to perfect, a very comfortable 9.8/10 for me, and I could not recommend Sekiro enough to anyone curious whether they should play it.
The combat system completely outshines the other games from fromsoftware, it makes me wish the posture metre was in every other game, and even watching gameplay of the game after completion, I feel my finger itching for the L1 button to pull off that glorious, rewarding parry which skyrockets the quality of the game’s combat in my opinion, along with, of course, the infinitely satisfying “deathblows” that the protagonist employs after defeating an enemy.
The infamous difficulty of Sekiro is a key component to it’s success, and the many hurdles that you will face do not require skill as much as they require patience, determination and the will to learn from mistakes. THAT is what makes Sekiro’s challenges and boss battles so gratifying to overcome.
As if this style of gameplay wouldn’t work perfectly without such high quality art direction and world design, Fromsoft had to go ahead and add just that to top it all off, as they do with all of their other games. Beautiful environments, some disgusting monsters and badass samurai armour, the designs in Sekiro are really top notch.
My only real gripe with Sekiro is that it is too short - not in the corny “this game is so perfect I only wish there was more of it” kind of way - I genuinely believe that it could have seriously benefitted from an extra few hours between the penultimate and final boss, especially considering the abrupt difficulty spike between those two points. It almost feels like you could beat the game easily in one sitting due to how skippable a lot of the areas are and the fact that one of the endings literally cuts the games playtime in half.
Overall, one of the closest times any game has ever gotten to perfect, a very comfortable 9.8/10 for me, and I could not recommend Sekiro enough to anyone curious whether they should play it.