So, I have a question. You can end your oponents in one slash or just a couple of them. Ok. Does it work like that the other way around? Can we be killed in one slash?

The demo didn't show this, but on GoW at least on the Give me God of War mode I needed like 12 hits to kill any enemy and only needed to receive 3 to die.

We should consider the weapon, armor and proficiency to see if the number of hits received or given to kill makes sense. But yes if you can one kill most oponents but need 12hits to die and most battles are one on one and you can recover out of battle that would make a bad combat.

That's what I'm slightly afraid of. That there is a considerable difference between us and our oponents in terms of resistance. 

It wouldn't be much of a problem in your average action/adventure game. But if they are going for the realistic approach... In my opinion, they have to do it 100%. Because it would be very weird that in a tense and calculated duel we can cut our opponent in half with one swing of our katana... But when the opponent does the same to us we just take some damage and proceed to attack him again. 

In God of War (or any action RPG) there are difficulty modes where you can die very quickly, yes. But in most of those games, you incarnate a very powerful character that has tons of offensive options (some of them incredibly effective and destructive), many ways of evading damage in a consistent way and sometimes even heal himself. In this game however, we are a human dueling other humans in a realistic setting. Most of these options shouldn't be available if we don't want to feel superhuman compared to our enemies. 

And yes, I know that Jin is supposed to be a legend, and a legend should be able to deal with generic baddies. But no matter how skillful or powerful you are, if they cut your head... You should be dead. 

It would be very Bushido Blade on PS1 like if you could.

Yep it is an acceptable fear until we know more information, but since on the video they said about going for realism I expect that the player is also frail if hit, sure I don't expect dying in a single hit unless on the hardest difficulty. But perhaps 5 hits with "partial" or "unnefective" dodge, 2 or 3 on not dodged or blocked and single hit if critical.

About GoW I can only talk about the mode I played and there was not really an effective and destructive way to kill enemies, it was very hard and consuming to kill even common enemies, for boss I took like 30min even when not dying. To make things worse since resources were scarce I wasn't upgrading my equipment so at half the game I was still with level 1 equip versus level 6 to 8 monster so it was like 20-30 hits to kill and 1 to 3 to die.

When I envisioned Sucker Punch making a samurai game I certainly didn’t think it would become a generic open world game. More surprising was the combat, infamous and infamous 2 had such good combat, this looked dull and the bad stealth AI made it worse.

I’ll buy on PS5 down the line if it ends up being any good.

Noticed the 5 years of Kendo comment , so I have to ask did you like Bushido blade

I didn't know the game at the time so I never played. But from what I heard it was somewhat accurate movement.

I think people are forgetting how easy it is to make good stealth AI look dumb as bricks, when you've played a level 5,000 times already. Of course, that doesn't mean the stealth AI isn't bad. Just that coming to that conclusion, watching a guy, who has no doubt mastered the game, is not wise.

The combat on the other hand looks kinda slow and stilted. Like they took the Hair's Breadth Blocking, Mikiri Countering, and Jumping Over Sweep Attacks, and then dumbed it down, adding in lots more insta-kill moves. Edit: Talking about them dumbing down the basic combat of Sekiro here.

The open world looks really good though. I see a lot of BotW inspiration, as well as interesting level design ala GoW/Sekiro. What I really hate in open world games is when every enemy camp is just a bunch of dudes huddled around a campfire, or in the same generic "building". The docks area looked the opposite of that, so hopefully the entire game is that way.

I thought the same until the game was in motion. Then I remembered that the past trailers usually had tons of windy foliage present at all time. There's no downgrade, game just looks very flat when the scene is still.