As a result, I’ve played the game twice on PC and once on PS4 Pro, having more than 150 hours in total. I can wish no longer because by the grace of Buddha (the game’s deity) Sekiro remedies all these issues and gives me exactly what I’ve wanted. Back-stabs were preferred as well.īloodborne is another story since they replaced the combat roll with a cool looking dash-evade, and once I realized how visceral attacks worked I was all in! I loved countering and delivering massive damage to enemies, but the lack of proper finishing animations still held back my enjoyment.Īnother problem with the prior games was the very limited storytelling, and when combined with the lack of suitable counter/evade mechanics and stylish finishers, I wished for more. I played a sword and parry-shield warrior in order to perform riposte attacks and get the wonderful gut-stab animations. In the Souls games I had to adapt to the games’ limitations. It looks so stupid while wearing armor or carrying a weapon bigger than yourself. Plus I passionately dislike the roll mechanic.

Starting with the Souls games, I dislike the fact that you can play the whole games only by pressing R1 for a normal hit and O/B for rolling/evading. I would usually do one ‘new game plus’ run and then move on. I’d play them, but I wasn’t the guy who replays the games numerous times with different classes and weapons. However, I was never a huge fan of the previous titles.

First, note that I’ve played all the Dark Souls games ( Demon’s Souls and Bloodborne too). Before I discuss this modern game, let me look at at the previous games. This is not Skyrim!Įven though death is a constant, I believe the developers, FromSoftware, did a fantastic job with Sekiro. I will confess it from the very beginning, I died more than twice! I have no clue how many times I died (there’s no in-game counter like in Dark Souls 2), but my death count was probably well over a hundred times. Please go on and read without fear of something being spoiled for you. The screenshots are mostly from the first area, and I’ve tried to avoid even the tiniest reveal past the start of the game. First off, this review is spoiler-free, apart from the introduction.

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