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

submitted 1 week ago by CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works

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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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[–] CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I agree 100%, parrying is the way to go with combat like this though I wish for a bit more of a balance between parrying and other things that this game doesn’t quite hit. Still when it works, it works well.

As for difficulty it’s not that I find the enemies easy per se, it’s that I find the game loop easy and kind of dull. Those problems I don’t expect a harder difficulty to fix. For instance I fought Owl for the second time and the tedium of that with his high damage convinced me pretty well that the difficulty wasn’t the issue. Enemies in this game are already extremely deadly so harder must be like playing a no hit run right? Lol

[–] discostjohn@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago

Yeah, ringing the demon bell just makes enemies hit harder and have more health. There's a second way to increase the difficulty, but you only have access to it after you've beaten the game. It beefs up enemies, but also makes it so you take chip damage when guarding, meaning you have to parry to avoid damage altogether. The second method makes the game harder in a good way