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Here's a hot take about Sekiro (lemmy.world)

submitted 6 days ago by [email protected] to c/patientgamers

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I don't think the game is all that good or fun(personally).

I'm a pretty seasoned SoulsBorne player playing all of the games aside from Elden Ring. I've only had trouble on two of the bosses so far. But my big issue is I'm just not having a good time like with the other games and I'm almost done with it.

I know the combat is much faster paced which I appreciate but its also very dull. Its the same Dark Souls combat with most of the creativity removed and a looooot of parrying. And the parrying isn't even rewarding, it makes it like a rhythm game.

Problem with it being a rhythm game though is that I expect to know when I need to parry but the timings are all over the place. I also just don't think the enemies are all that different to fight, most of them are the exact same in this game just different timings or tells.

I mean I see the reviews, everyone loves this game and I loved all the other games but is it just the fast paced combat and grappling hook that helps it? Having a visible story is nice so far too I suppose.

I'm just curious if other people do or don't like it and why or why not.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I think Sekiro is good, but not fun in sense that it would be relaxin game, it is fun that when i manage down a boss it feels like achievement.

Sekiro is first game for me that is said to be like "Dark Souls game". And only played it thru once.

I do think Sekiro fighting is good, after I played Sekiro next was Ghost of Tsushima, and damn it was hard, could not get parries. I think in Sekiro they are better telegraphed or something. I remember there was some loading screen tip in Sekiro that said something like "to parry press block button when enemy hit would land" and it was good, tip, on Ghost it did not work at all. But take that out of backbone after playing Sekiro. God Of War (2017, and Ragnarock) games, is all other ball again, but among these games I think Sekiro's combat is best. It feels responsive, dare i say, fair.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I’ll be honest, that may be one of the issues. I found about 90% of Sekiro to be easy for a souls game. Most bosses I attempted 10 times or less. Until the last few bosses I had no issues so maybe I just find it boring because I don’t die very often?

But even the hard fights didn’t feel like huge achievements because I knew the very next boss was 5 minutes away. Maybe the game is a bit too boss heavy for my tastes, I don’t know.