I 'm ng+ charmless and i'm now stuck at emma + isshin. The problem i have is that unlike ng where enemies have reasonable posture, in ng+ they have much more. Add to that chip damage and some bosses like emma +isshon require almost perfection for 10 minutes straight. That's a bit too much imo, even for me that i like challenging games and enjoyed my ng run
Yeah i already beat old isshin. It was a very punishing fight, too much i'd say. You cannot do 2 consecutive mistakes because you are 2 shotted. You can't heal unless you go to the opposide side of the arena, because cheater bosses read your input and when you heal and are in adequate distance from them they gap-close hit you.
This is true for Sekiro, but not entirely for Soulsborne in general. You have STR which dictates if your character can even properly wield STR-based weapons, you have Endurance which dictates how much stamina your character has and, therefore, how many attacks/dodging/blocking a character can do before exhausting their stamina, there's an equipment load stat which dictates how fast your character can do roll-dodging, and there's even a dedicated stat in Dark Souls 2 that dictates how well your character can dodge in conjunction to equipment load. And then you also have INT and Faith stat where the more you invest in them, the better spells and miracles your character can use, respectively. It's not what I prefer to see in proper RPGs, but it's good enough for an Action-RPGs like the Soulsborne games.
While I agree with your first part of upgrading prosthetic tools and boss rushing, I disagree that this game doesn't have the replayability of the previous games. I actually completed Sekiro 5 times now, all the way to NG+3 and also another completed fresh NG because I want to see all the endings + I want to see how it feels like to fight against Emma + Isshin in a fresh NG and NG+, the difference there not having as much upgrades and having all the upgrades when fighting either of them. I still have another NG+, the continuation from that very fresh NG, in progress but because of Expedition release for Underrail I'm not playing Sekiro for now.
Yeah, yeah I know. I should have elaborated on what I meant. In RPGs you as the player do not press a button during combat and the timing of that button being insanely crucial to your success. You don't have to space out how you attack and when to dodge, you have stats and rolls that determine that. I know how the stats work, and that's why I said the Soulsborne games have better "RPG elements" than other games that claim to have them. They have stats that actually do matter which makes them a more suitable action-RPG than most other games that get the whole "yeah there's some shallow as fuck RPG influence in this and it's open world, just like a RPG right? 60 dolla please
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While I agree with your first part of upgrading prosthetic tools and boss rushing, I disagree that this game doesn't have the replayability of the previous games. I actually completed Sekiro 5 times now, all the way to NG+3 and also another completed fresh NG because I want to see all the endings + I want to see how it feels like to fight against Emma + Isshin in a fresh NG and NG+, the difference there not having as much upgrades and having all the upgrades when fighting either of them. I still have another NG+, the continuation from that very fresh NG, in progress but because of Expedition release for Underrail I'm not playing Sekiro for now.
I agree with you in general, but, again, I still don't understand the notion that this game has (almost) 0 replay values. Maybe because we have different point of view of what constitute 'replay value'.
I would just like some variety. Something. Anything. Customization. IDK.
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The armored warrior in Sekiro:
- Is Large
- Wields a Zweihander
- Wears Heavy Armor
- Wears a mask
- Is a father
.....Could it be?
To your first question: The game is short so there's also that. Playthrough 10 sounds more intimidating than it actually is. The combat is the main attraction really but that's only one aspect and also happens to be the most memorable. Not sure that's enough compared to the other Soulsborne games. Even for the action games that they are they still allowed you to have different playstyles: melee, magic, ranged, dodging, parrying, blocking, large amount of weapons, armors, spells, especially DkS2. But maybe replayability means different things to you than it does to me.
I'm the opposite, I want to see more of Sekiro combat gameplay style because it's THE best, speaking in terms of action games. But what I want to see more than that, is how From is going to adapt what they implemented in Sekiro, and fit it into more emphasized RPG mechanics. Would be very interesting to see not only From once again tackling on RPG design sensibilities, but also expanding on Sekiro's combat gameplay into the realms of RPG mechanics.
On the contrary, I think the combat alone is enough to put Sekiro above and beyond any of the Soulsborne games. But only when comparing them as action games, in which Bloodborne is the one closest to Sekiro in terms of action combat gameplay, but still far below what Sekiro achieved. Still, I think it's unfair to bring up RPG aspect of Soulsborne. Of course Sekiro can't compare in that aspect, there's practically zero of that. Though, again, comparing them in terms of action combat gameplay, even if you only essentially playing one 'build' in Sekiro, the options you had when dealing with enemies in just mere seconds time-frame are way, WAY more than you'd usually have in Soulsborne when playing with similar build/playstyle. Regular attacking, blocking, step-dodging, deflecting (and consecutive deflecting), counter-attacking (either after step-dodging or deflecting), jump-stomping, mikiri counter; all that, vs. regular attacking, blocking, dodging, parrying (if possible), riposte/visceral attack (if possible, especially in Bloodborne).... that's it. At most, you're down to only blocking/dodging (side-stepping in Bloodborne), seeking opportunities to attack once in a while, and then starting from Bloodborne you get several opportunities to perform visceral attacks on even bosses (and also be a bit more aggressive in general), and I vaguely remembered that was in Dark Souls 3, too. Even worse, fights often ended up being strafing to the right/left Dark Souls 1, which is rectified by Dark Souls 2 (and I feel like that particular decision botched its PvE experience). And this isn't even considering that Sekiro had prosthetics, combat arts, and other skills like Vault Over that play nicely when paired with Puppeteer Ninjutsu when fighting against groups of enemies, or Mid-Air Combat Arts that allows you to perform, for example, Ichimonji/Ichimonji Double on an enemy after jumping over their Perilous Sweep attacks instead of jump-stomping them.
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But, is it enough for a DLC and a sequel ?
