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Review: The Punishing Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Coasts on Borrowed Moves | Slant

Its boss fights highlight the contrived lengths that FromSoftware has gone to in order to satisfy players’ thirst for difficulty.

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NecrumOddBoy1880d ago

Slant = Nuff Said.

Not worth the clicks friends...

Gardenia1879d ago

Just clickbait. There is always one

wwinterj1879d ago

With every good games comes a site that rates it lower for clicks. With every bad game comes a site that rates it a big higher for clicks. If I see anything like this I automatically ignore it.

Relientk771879d ago

Slant literally exists to give games bad and lower than the review average scores.

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DaDrunkenJester1879d ago

He actually makes some good points in his article, but a 4 it certainly is not. The stealth is too easy, the AI is too dumb, the bosses all come down to the same method of fighting, there is a HUGE balance problem, and personally I think the enemy and boss designs have been severely lacking. The coolest one has been the giant snake, but that wasn't really even a boss fight tbh.

seanpitt231879d ago

The game is to difficult for the Ai to be good it's probably like this for a reason
And been dumbed down.

DaDrunkenJester1879d ago

@Sean

Actually the regular fodder enemies are absolutely easy as balls. Usually are easily dispatched with a couple hits or a perfect parry. Plus, if you decide to use stealth for most of your playthrough then you're going to be severely under prepared for the sword fights that await you in the bosses or even mini bosses. They all require you to parry very well and then chip at their health until they can't refill their posture. Posture break them and then shinobi strike. It's the same damn method for just about every boss fight. But the difference is the regular fodder enemies don't pose any sort of threat, they attack slow, and can be easily out smarted so they don't really prepare you at all.

kenpachi1879d ago

Are these clowns and Tom chick competing against each other for biggest clicks for crap reviews

ShockUltraslash1879d ago

Funny they gave DMC5 high scores.
If you apply the same metric of quality to Sekiro it should fare the same.

starrman19851879d ago

Ha, you ain't getting my clicks boah!

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Before Miyazaki Retires, We Need To Get A Sekiro Sequel

A sequel to the studio's acclaimed title, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, would be the perfect swan song for long-time video game director Hidetaka Miyazaki.

H937d ago

Man you didn't have to do me like that with the title

LoveSpuds37d ago

I just don't see it happening given the success of Elden Ring. I think we'll be seeing a sequel to Elden Ring before anything else.

Demetrius37d ago (Edited 37d ago )

I'm not into souls games but it's good to see that this dev studio stick to what makes their titles unique, there's alot of souls copy n pasted games but they rarely get talked about cause they're looked at as copies and not original created ideas, the souls games are unique cause they offer they're own identity instead imitating I respect that

jznrpg37d ago (Edited 37d ago )

Or Bloodborne 2 preferably both but that’s a lot to ask if he plans on retiring sooner than later

Leeroyw37d ago

Bloodborne 2 or I'd simply love a 60fps remaster. I'd also love a bloodborne randomiser option.

toxic-inferno36d ago

I'm definitely holding out hope for a Bloodborne 60fps remaster still. Some extra features thrown in would be nice too.

With regards to a sequel, I'd actually rather From Software make another new IP with a different setting. That is what made Bloodborne so good - the fact that it took a proven formula and applied it to a completely new setting.

anast36d ago

The hype would be insane if they announced Bloodborne 2.

Inverno37d ago

What if they made a Sekiro/Bloodborne mix?

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Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is a Timeless Classic

With this feature, we will be taking a look at Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice all these years later and break down why it remains such a great time.

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Cacabunga40d ago

I regret i never played it, like many other great games!! Still on my radar, when i become retro gamer in a year or two with all this gaas crap happening around

Psychonaut8540d ago

Absolutely. Amazing art design, and didn’t have the Bloodborne problem so it runs at 60FPS on newer hardware, which is amazing given the reaction based gameplay

Cacabunga40d ago

Wait did it get a next gen patch??

Sciurus_vulgaris40d ago

This one title that never clicked with me. I enjoyed Dark Souls, Demon Souls and Bloodborne, but I never warmed up to Sekiro’s parry-focused combat. I honestly gave up on the game at about the half way point.

Armyofdarkness40d ago

Me too. But after the Stellar Blade demo and parrying like crazy I’m tempted to go back and play this again

Inverno40d ago

Took me a couple years too get into when I first bought it. I had gotten so used to Bloodborne that the gameplay was genuinely confusing me. Picked it up a third time and clicked. The game is souls stripped of all its RPG elements and left with nothing but it's combat. It's Souls at its pureness but I can see why the combat would turn people off. That's why I liked it so much tho, without the choice of weapons it's very focused on a specific style. I think a sequel with a small selection of weapons but each fleshed out would be the right step.

Sciurus_vulgaris40d ago

My problem with Sekiro was the combat, I didn’t find it as engaging as Bloodborne, DarkSouls due to the lack of RPG elements. I even found action games like Ninja Gaiden 1-2 and Ghost of Tsushima more engaging as well.

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The 7 Best Souls-Like Games - Mastering the Challenge

The Souls-like genre remains popular, along with FromSoftware's classics there are many contenders. But which are the best Souls-like games?

toxic-inferno48d ago

Hmm... In my opinion, the 7 best are the 6 made by FromSoftware (DeS, DS1, DS2, DS3, BB and ER), then Lies of P. But each to their own.

kevco3348d ago

Still DS1? You don't feel it's been surpassed yet?

Demon's Souls has the remake of course, but DS1 has surely been outdated?

Smellsforfree48d ago

I think that the DS1 remake is better looking than DS2. The interior lighting matched with the low resolution textures in DS2 is very garish, IMO.

Besides graphics, what do you mean by DS1 being "outdated"? I'm someone who played through Elden Ring and just recently played through the DS series, and as far as gameplay went, there were all very similar.

Cacabunga48d ago

I haven’t played many but Bloodborne and NIOH1 are on top of my list.. had a blast with these 2

toxic-inferno48d ago

For world design and interconnectedness (that's a word, right?) DS1 is yet to be beaten.

anast16d ago

All great games beside DS2.

toxic-inferno16d ago

I would agree, but there are some things in DS2 that are great and incredibly memorable. It tries to do things differently, and there are some amazingly cinematic moments.

Of course, there's also poor level design (particularly the interconnectivity of the world), questionable combat choices and some of the worst boss runs since the early days of video games...

anast16d ago

True. I can't disagree the game has some moments.