I'm late to the party, but I loathe Sekiro. Dark Souls is my second favorite franchise in all of gaming, but I couldn't get into Sekiro. The lack of character customization, repetitive gameplay along with cheap difficulty made the game just bad. I can solo all Souls games, my first time on S&O took me at most 12 times. Some of the bosses in Sekiro took me 30+ times. That isn't hard, that is cheap and too much. But cool to those who are enjoying it, I did not.

I found the game incredibly cheap, from the perspective of how hard the enemies hit in comparison to how hard our character hits. Seven Spears, in a single hit, can take 90% of my HP. Meanwhile if I get a hit in, it takes 1% of his HP. That is why I view the game as cheap as they come. The difficulty doesn't come in enemy design, it comes simply from being under powered. Sekiro is nothing more than Mike Tyson's Punch-Out, except with swords. The enemy is faster, stronger and has more endurance. Memorize patterns to win against the odds. Meh, not my thing. Souls however is superb.

I liked Sekiro overall, but i kinda had a miserable time playing it. I found this game so much harder than any of the other Soulsborne-games i played. The whole game became an act of pure defiance on my part where i refused to let the game break me and i decided i would get the platinum for this game. It was the hardest platinum i have.achieved.

That's only true for the first five to ten hours. As the game goes on you have a sizable hp bar, and are able to chunk enemy health/posture bars quickly if you are skilled enough.