I agree with most of ur points but imo one of the most fun things about from games is guessing which stuff was unused content from previous games, and I think itās generally impressive how often they can reappropriate the tone of something in the new context. Dark 3 had a good amount of stuff that felt like it was from bloodborne, for instance
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Between that and one of the loading screen messages about dangerous spirits as night falls, it really felt like fighting undead demons was going to be a much more important part of the game, and to see them shunted away into obscure corners of the game, where their difficulty pretty much remains the same from the beginning of the game to the end? That made them feel like content that should have been cut.
I just tried the final boss my first few times and got to the 3rd form w/spear and blade, no doubt itāll be a good few more but honestly think Iāll get it within 20-30. Surprises and fuck ups guaranteed, itās just the kind of setup Iām good at switching modes for on the fly.
Much will always be spoken on previous experience in the Soulsborne games and how it affects the playerās approach, intuit, and response to what Sekiro asks for. Listening closely to what itās saying though (maybe also compounded by enough time with certain twitchier deep actions; again MGR: Revengeance, Ninja Gaiden for example)ā¦in its own fashion, the richest thing here is combat and given a playerās effort to learn it, the teamās sharpest not necessarily hardest entry yet.
every video Iāve seen of the game on youtube had the english voices on. itās just like witcher 3, nobody respects the material. english isnāt even selected by default this time!
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Wait thereās an option for english voices??? Dark Souls didnāt have an option for Japanese voices
FWIW, the dialogue insofar as I can understand it is way more concise and evocative than the English subtitles. For instance, one line I took note of near the beginning translated the single word mamorubeki to a long clunky phrase like āthe ward under his protectionā. Itās kind of cool that DkS1 gave us really evocative dialogue that the Japanese audience understood in dribs and drabs but likely appreciated nevertheless, and now the tables are turned.
It has like 6 voice tracks. Maybe on my second run I will play it in Italian
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French was the best sounding dub of the set besides Japanese
Shichimenās also one of those weird fights where the playstyle is completely unlike the rest of Sekiro (given the strategy is to just rush them down and keep attacking without ever stopping). In general the thing I dislike about those fights is the Terror status. But while insta-death is annoying, itās actually not anything worse than most of the grabs in the game, given most of those will typically cost you the same unless youāre at full health.
Also, regardless of whether the game detects youāre mashing or not is pretty immaterial given pretty much every person I saw playing the game on Youtube mashed through most of the boss fights (easiest way to tell is youāll see them spam deflect a few times after a series of strikes is over), including most of those with 0 death or speedruns. The reasoning seemed to be that not getting hit was more important than the risk associated with being hit, at least until players that were genuinely extremely good at the timings (like speedrunners) memorized all the timings so they no longer needed to do this.
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Iāve only played this game for about two hours (and havenāt read the whole thread), but the fact that I never learned how to parry in the Souls games is proving something of a challenge!
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I think we should talk about if it makes sense to have both jump evades and evade evades. (oh, and especially since Iām dealing with this problem right now!)
4+ defensive options, as opposed to many offensive options, is a striking choice because they need to be selected within extremely compressed time windows and have more subtle evaluations.
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This games got me in its clutches. im right in the ācanāt wait to get out of work so i can go right back to playingā zone
i encountered the big snek and nopeād the fuck out of there but iām psyched to go back and see what lies belowā¦
The ādeath blows restore healthā skill was a game changer thanks Tulpa for the recc. Also a game changer was realizing that i donāt have to sneak up on every enemy to get a stealth deathblow, i can just sprint up to most of em and mash R1. Zipping through areas i tiptoed through the first time and opening dudes up left and right is immensely satisfying
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Welp after dying a multitude of times to spearfuck and drunk asshole i tried to go another direction and met big chained buddy. i was all set to give up on this game because apparently i canāt beat bosses, but then i beat them on the third try so
i guess iām back in?
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sekiro day 3: singing āyou say no to booze, juicy j canātā to myself while getting viciously beaten by jozou the drunkard
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The real question itt is if Tulpa died any weird deaths
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Wolfās āUMAIIIIā if you eat Kuroās sticky rice ball in front of him is really cute.
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this is a buckwild complaint imo
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I (as the official sekiro hater, I have embraced it at this point, the first two hours of this game betrayed everything I want from From) found the subtitles for the japanese dialog very dry compared to what Iād come to expect from the english delivery in their other titles (which has always been absolutely fantastic, even when it was Atlus producing Demonās, well beyond almost any other japanese game I can think of), so I did try toggling it
i mean if the first impression left you cold thereās obviously nothing wrong with that, but it does make it kind of annoying that you keep popping back in with criticisms that are entirely your extrapolations from those first few hours
iām also bewildered as to what your expectations of From even are if ābeing initially confounded by obtuse mechanics & difficultyā are not among them
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i just wanna pop in at 4 hours and say that i donāt like this game but i keep playing it anyway? and it puts me in a bad mood even when iām successful??
maybe i just hate games now because Baba is kind of doing the same thing to me