Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition

shekiro

Everything's good except difficulty and inability change it or adapt your build to it. I have more interesting things in life than to learn patterns of secondary pisseye boss that kills me in two hits.

masterpiece

好的美术，好的游戏性，不错的故事，这三者在只狼中以看似简单的方式完美的呈现出来，但其实三者中的任何一者在当今游戏界基本都没有人能做到这种程度吧，更别说将这三者结合的这么完美。

This is the worst one that they've ever made and From's got some real terrible games in their catalog. It's almost impressive.

Maldito seja o Macaco Guardião. ele literalmente caga na própria mão e a arremessa em você, como também vira a bunda para peidar na sua cara.

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I avoided it for 7 years cause I heard it described and praised as a "rhythm game" which turned me off cause I dont like that genre and it feels too much like "ur a slave to the icons coming down the screen". And all the videos emphasizing parrying which I always felt was a tedious mechanic in most games. After playing it, Sekiro is not really like that at all and I don't think thats why its so beloved. And I havent seen people discuss below so I wanna essay rn lol. The real reason I think Sekiro is so enjoyed is cause its the only souls-ish-like that rewards you for being aggressive and also the only one that rewards you for ur defense. In Sekiro your offense is actually also your defense and your defense is also your offense. Thats whats so fun about it. Everything you do is directly rewarded and there are actually ALOT of defensive options, which means its actually way more flexible than Elden Ring. In ER you're mostly just forced to dodgeroll alot of stuff. There is no reward for dodging 10 hit combos, ur actually punished the longer the combo is because it can reset bosses hidden stagger meter and it drains ur stamina. Which I think is why people complain so much about ER bosses. Its also very passive and boring to just sit there waiting for the bosses 10 hit combo to end only for them to jump away afterwards so u get barely any reward for it. But in Sekiro the bosses health is really their posture meter (if it hits 0 they die) and every deflect does damage to it. So when a boss does a long combo u feel good because the boss is taking damage from doing it if u deflect. So ur defense is actually also offense. They also made the parrying SUPER FORGIVING way way way more forgiving than dodge rolling DS/ER. U can just spam the block button and its fine, u can also just hold block and its fine. Most bosses dont even punish u for ur guard breaking. I basically went through the game just guessing or mashing the deflect and it just was fine lol. U dont need to tediously memorize crazy timings just like deflect what u can and if u mess up its registered as a block even if ur finger is off the trigger cause ur mashing. The anims are also pretty straight forward so just guessing the timing usually works unlike ER where it feels like they purposely make the anims wacky and have misleading timing. U can also just not deflect. Strafing, and jumping are op in the game. As is just holding run button. Alot of the unblockable attacks ur meant to dodge u can also just jump. U have multiple prosthetic defensive options too. Its very open ended. Also in Sekiro, for most bosses, if you hit them, it stuns them out of their combo and even their special unblockable moves. So ur offense is also ur defense and ur rewarded for it. So basically anything u do ur rewarded for. If u attack u can interrupt boss combos by forcing them to take dmg or block. If u deflect u hurt them. Jumping on them also hurts them sometimes. W/e u do is rewarded. Thats why its so fun, unlike some ER bosses where it just feels like ur being abused and enslaved by the game for little reward. Its also imo way easier than the hardest DS and ER bosses. None of the bosses took me that long except like 1 which was optional and is made like a DS boss not a sekiro boss (demon of hatred) though even that one u can make way easier if u use certain prosthetics (and the hold run is op). Even that one was way easier than hardest ds3 bosses and half the ER bosses. Anyway I would actually recommend Sekiro as From's easiest souls-like-ish. Its also not very long and very well paced. The setting and story are also IMO alot better than DS and ER. But not as good as Armored Core 6. Anyway hope you enjoyed my essay lol...