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HoloDust said:
Runa216 said:
Yeah, anyone saying that sekiro was stupid hard or unfairly hard just sucked at the game. I absolutely loathe the 'git gud' mentality and always have (it's why I took forever to get on the Souls bandwagon), but it's true with Sekiro. The game is incredibly fair - arguably the most fair of all the soulslike I've played - it's just by far the most demanding and has the greatest margin of error.

In Bloodborne and Souls (especially Souls 1 and 3), dodging was viable for all combat encounters. In DS2 you had to raise a stat to use dodge, but it was OP as hell if you got it. you could dodge roll and use agility to fight there, but in Sekiro, there is no one-size-fits-all strategy. With most bosses, each move has a specific counter and you have to identify what it is and react accordingly. you can't dodge-roll out of the way all the time because some moves require a block or deflect, some require you to jump, some require you to run, some require you to Mikiri Counter.

As I said, Sekiro is only half a souls game, and that half is the design philosophy and world building and a handful of mechanics, the story and combat and all that is remarkably different. that's why I love it. It's great and clearly inspired by some of my favourite games but also definitely unique.

I didn't find it stupidly hard, i just didn't care for it. Souls for me are about exploration, atmosphere of the world and great level design (combat in Souls is actually just adequate). Honestly, I didn't care for any of that in Sekiro, in addition to not being able to fiddle with character stats. Yeah, i know Sekiro is not Souls, but that just made me drop it after 2 days and I've never looked back.

Luckily, with Elden Ring they are going back to Souls, just fully open world.

But that's exactly it, Sekiro is not souls. It clearly shares the same ancestors, but it's no more souls than a monkey is a human. it's really not fair to judge a game based on what it's not trying to be and therefore isn't. 

I mean, I GET That some people aren't going to like Sekiro (or souls or bloodborne), so I'm not trying to devalue your opinion on the matter, I just don't understand why these reasons in particular are why you aren't interested in the game. 



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