Landing a hit yourself and doging or jumping should always be secondary to deflecting the enemies blows, you should then weave in hits of your own which usually work best after the enemy has just attacked, you can attempt to go aggressively here for greatrr posture damage or go back to deflecting if the enemy is a more aggresive type. Have a few runs where you go in to die and just focus on deflecting his attacks  it's what I'm doing with a boss right now thst has a posture and health gauge ten times as deep as deep as I've encounters yet, all I can do right now is just keep learning his patterns until it all forms in my mind and then I'll pop a few sugers and have a full on go at him. 

It didnt seem that way. At the sony event, i only got to try the burning village stage. All the enemies with one handed weapon and handed weapons all attacked the same. Even if u dodge when they attack, they will block your counterattack right after. 

More so if they are with arrow shootong guys, the guys woth weapons will just block while the arrow guys shoot you to death. For me thats no skill involved right there. Thats being cheap. It feels like the game was made that way to make it last longer than it should.. Frame stuttering alone should have reduce the meta critic score. No game should have that and then score such high marks.

John2290 said:

You are failing to see the nuance of the combat, it isn't simply slashing your sword onto an enemies blade and trying not to get hit. It's also not about AI effectiveness here but shear overwhelming numbers of animations. Every enemy has different moves and variations of those moves as well as animation where they subtley try to trick you, it is the same approach Naughty dog are taking with TLOU 2 albeit to a lesser degree in a different genre, bombard the player with animations to give an illusion of greater AI, I'm not defending it but from my experience with this game, it works. Some bosses here feel as if it's PVP.

Both are equally bad. I dont support that either. Both dont require any skill hence why my favorite game of all time is ninja gaiden on og xbox.  That was pure skill. Heck dark soils has more skill than this and i am not a big fan of ds. 

I cant wait for the day when console games will have AI that learns how you play and then changes its style to counterattack yours. Rather have that then fancy graphics at 4k 😂 

SecondWar said:

Hey, its a better way it implment difficultly than a lot of games typically use - same number of enemies by with health multiplers. That is just boring.

This is based on what i was allowed to play at Sonys event. None of the enemies did what u mentioned. I only saw them block every attack even when i was behind them lol.

Plus for me its not skill as the game has frame stuttering during gameplay. technical issues adding unneccessary difficulty to game. Game with precision attacks should never have frame stuttering. Bare in mind i havent tried pc. It was only the Ps4 that i tried it on.

Sunstrider said:

What do you mean you don't need skill, the blocking and deflecting is there because of the "Posture Mechanic", you deflect enemies to break their posture for you to perform a deathblow, enemies block and deflect too, but lesser enemies mostly just block that's why they are easier to deathblow, in case you did not notice, when you deflect(tapping L1/LB), a big spark is noticeable compared to just blocking(holding L1/LB) where there is less spark and in turn gets your posture build hence you get stunned for a bit. This is not like Soulsborne where enemies will most likely just take every hit you give.