Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition

probably the most mechanically pure fromsoft game. that aside sekiro is such a freak. why does he eat uncooked rice

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Sekiro is one of those games that gets better every time you replay it. Unlike many games, it offers a more simple and cohesive vision. It doesn't try to do everything at once - instead, it focuses on its core combat and movement mechanics, then gives you the space to learn them. That's what makes Sekiro's combat so satisfying, your success doesn't come from stat upgrades, but from your actual growth as a player.

This was my first Fromsoft game. Got it at launch on Xbox, Hated it. Put it down for a year. Then, during the pandemic, I decided "why not give this another go?" Proceeded to immeadiately 100% it. Its frustrating, in fact, down right infuriating at points. But in my opinion, its a masterpiece. Loved it so much I got it again on PC, and intend fully to 100% it again.

Absolute Sekino, gameplay wise my favorite FS Game, even if i still like Bloodborne better overall. I feel bad for anyone who only played this game at 60fps, it almost feels essential to have a higher framerate for this game. The only complaint I have are some hitboxes, most notable the Demon of Hatred, that fucker is hard as shit

Fluid combat, fun storytelling and stunning environment. The game is like nothing I've played before. While the learning curve feels steeper than most games, you adapt rather quickly and the dopamine you get from climbing the insurmountable hill that is a boss is a feeling few games can capture. I hate to admit it but I'm afraid few games will feel as rewarding as this journey as been.

Folding screen monkeys hardest boss Edit: after finally beating the game, I have to admit... this is the greatest game Fromsoftware has put out. Kudos to them for trying something new with this game. Hoping for another game with these mechanics!

My first Souls game. The graphics, atmosphere, and story are amazing. If you love Souls games, you'll experience the peak of difficulty in Sekiro. The combat mechanics strike a balance that requires patience and strategy. One mistake can result in instant death. Against bosses, patience and the right tactics are essential. But this difficulty is also the source of some of the most satisfying moments.

10/10 loved the story,mechanics,combat Every single boss fight in this game is fun. Not spoiling too much but the final boss fight is like icing on the cake for this game, it has everything the game teaches you throughout and FORCES you to use and YOU WILL DIE until you learn. and yea you will die WAYYY more than "TWICE"

I understand I'm in the minority and that's fine. And fair warning, I'm okay at this game, not great. But this game has the three FromSoft specific complaints that I have for most of the games (including DS2 and Bloodborne which I've completed multiple times) 1) dark protagonists in dark environments fighting dark enemies on dark backgrounds looks cool until you're playing it 2) why is running so clunky 3) what I feel is artificial difficulty The real issue I take with this game is that you go out of your way to create such a robust, skill-expressive combat system built for exciting 1v1 fights, and then you constantly jam into large groups of enemies that you either run from to reset aggro or try to hack through. Even using stealth to trim down the group only goes so far until eventually you're in a smaller group fight. I really wanted to like this game, but there's too many hangups that I have to recommend it. The prosthetic tools are a cool addition, grappling adds some fun movement to help scout areas, and the stealth is impressively well done. But the awe and fun of the game as a whole is limited by moment-to-moment gameplay

I am not a fan of this game whatsoever, it's probably a skill issue and the fact that regular dark souls mechanics are so inbedded in my brain that the mechanics of sekiro in comparison to traditional souls games just completely threw me off.

Thus far, I think this is one of my favorite games of all time, as the combat feels incredibly good, the parrying is some of the cleanest that I have ever experienced, and, while this does come after defeating the (spoiler alert) blazing bull, I noticed that the combat feels challenging, yet fair, and when you get into that rhythm, my god it feels INCREDIBLE. Highly recommended, and is definitely worth the 30 dollars I spent on it (got it on sale), and even at full price, I think it's very much worth it.

One of the most funniest Souls games ever made. Some say it's hard but I found it to be easy when I played it. Maybe Patience and Parrying is just my style?

SEKIROは最も好きなゲームです。 はじき、下段危険攻撃に対するジャンプ回避、突き危険攻撃に対する見切りなどで相手の体幹を削って忍殺することを理解すればリズムゲームのように感じられて一気に楽しくなります。 サウンドエフェクトが素晴らしく、特に相手の攻撃をはじいた際の音がとても気持ち良いです。 続編が出てくれたらとても嬉しいです。

I absolutely hated this game when it came out... 6 years later, this could be my favorite FromSoftware game - possibly the best.

Not recommended for people other than masochist. There are some cool boss fights in the game, but almost half of the fights are just aids. Nevertheless, its a good game to go through once. Beat Isshin under 2 hours, I don't think I am bad at the game anyways.

Has some stutters during traversal and frame drops in very few areas. Despite that I think it is worth playing as it runs good during combat and if you have played Sekiro then you already know it has some crispy creamy combat.

Honesty a great game with a really high skill ceiling. Its challenging yet rewarding. The graphics and whole feel of the game is absolutely beautiful. The combat system is unique and fluid, i know I'm only just getting started playing but I'm having so much fun already.

maybe THE best game i have ever played. challenging - yes, but everything feels perfect. every parry feels amazing and the combat is awesome. sekiro was my first "souls" game - if you'd even call it that, but it made me fall in love with the genre despite the difficulty. the boss quality is consistently excellent and has some of the best fights in the series. if you like hard games, GO PLAY IT!!!

Can't believe it took me this long to finally play Sekiro. This deserves its GOTY title. My only complaint is that there isn't more. If Fromsoftware is working on a Sekiro 2 or something with sekiro-like combat, its now my most anticipated game. 82 hours in, beat the game 4 times, got all achievements, the only thing left for me to do is the Gauntlet of Strength: Mortal Journey. Not sure how much more I will play. I do want to play more and I might finish Mortal Journey but I do also feel like I finished everything I could possibly do. Only thing left is to perfect boss fights. First playthru I beat it blind and wow it seemed so much more difficult than it actually is. I can see a lot of people giving up on this game. Compared to other Fromsoft games like Elden Ring, there really isn't a way to get stronger other than progressing through the game. This game is truly the meaning of "get good", and "getting good" feels good. I struggled a lot at first but once you get a feel the bosses and learn the fights, it starts feeling really good very early. After beating the game for the first time I watched some "No Damage" fights on YouTube and that really opened my eyes to what this game can do. I didn't even realize how indepth the combat is until I watch some of those fights on x0.25 speed. Seeing how the shinobi tools were used and how everything that seems difficult is actually made to be perfectly countered, I started really wanting to redo boss fights and get better and better. The feeling of being locked in 1v1 with some of these bosses feels better than any game I've played, especially with the 3 "Inner" bosses. Beating the Gauntlet of Severance was one of the best feeling I've had in gaming in a while. 10/10 combat game. If you want to make a good combat game just shamelessly copy this.

Amazing game, fantastic mechanics I'm surprised aren't in the following FromSoft Games. Great fun! F*** Genichiro :)

-Just started playing this game -Met General Naomori Kawarada within an hour -Didn't know he was an optional boss that I wasn't supposed to fight this early on -Got deep fried by General Naomori -Proceeded to fight him over and over until I won -Absolutely fell in love with this game Update: Just defeated the chained ogre and another general. But then I met a headless boss in a cave and got two-shotted. It's truly frightening for a new player. Update 2: Just defeated Juzou the Drunkard and met Lady Butterfly. I thought she'd have 3 dots of health as a boss. Nevertheless, she's a tough enemy as I imagined. Update 3: Just defeated Lady Butterfly and upgraded my attack power

For players that gets annoyed by Souls games, maybe this is for you! I hate DS coz I'm bad at it but good thing Sekiro's here. I'm not very good at this either unlike those content creators out there but I enjoy parrying consecutive times, sneaking, brawling with bosses and mini-bosses. Overall. I enjoyed this very much. Definitely worth it.

Low key maybe the best souls game, probably more replayable than elden ring. The only thing elden ring has over sekrio is build diversity, The combat system in sekiro is the best one made by fromsoft.

I would consider Sekiro as one of the best FromSoftware games ever made. Overall, at its core, it’s a rhythm game. This game just hits different than anything you’ve probably ever played. The combat, the scenery—everything about it just feels so incredibly good. Spoiler Warning from here on – you’ve been warned. As an example: the Divine Dragon. It’s like the gimmick fight of Sekiro—basically like Rykard, Lord of Blasphemy from Elden Ring. The fight overall isn’t hard compared to anything you’ve really fought before him. It’s just the amazing atmosphere that makes the fight memorable for me. Everything about his attacks makes you feel something—it feels straight out of an anime. Or take Isshin, the Sword Saint, the final boss for any ending except the Shura ending. Yes, the fight is hard—incredibly hard—but there’s just something about this fight that feels so right to lose. You don’t fight against some bullshit god-creature like in Elden Ring. You fight against Genichiro’s grandfather, whose last wish was to fight for Ashina. And how he fights... He makes you regret every hit you take. He makes you scream in rage. He makes you mad. But it’s not some stupid Waterfowl Dance move he does—he just tests everything you’ve been taught so far in the game. And yes—he’s just the perfect final boss, in my opinion. It took me around eight hours to see his fourth phase for the first time. When he just starts catching lightning with his sword and makes you shoot it back at him... And when you see his poise bar slowly getting fuller—that’s when you really feel your heart pumping like crazy. For me, it was the first time ever experiencing something like that: The music gets quieter, your vision gets fixed on the game, you forget about everything around you, and suddenly you don’t even hear your stupid friends on Discord anymore. It’s just you and the game. And then, after eleven painful hours, you’re finally able to finish him. I almost cried out of pure joy—of finally being able to finish my playthrough. Isshin even motivates you to finally end it. Just such a unique experience. 10/10 – would recommend for anyone searching for a hard-as-f*ck game.

One of the best combat systems in gaming history. Once it clicks, you won't be able to put this game down!

The gameplay it is not fun for me. I kill few easy enemies with no problem and then I reach some kind of miniboss that is extremely difficult to kill and I have to die over and over countless times. And each time, to reach the miniboss, I have to kill again all the easy enemies before. After I see some guide on youtube about how to kill the miniboss, e.x. "use this trick" or "use this specific move all the time", then the whole sequence repeats untill the next miniboss. If this is how souls-like games are then they are definitely not fun at all for me. Very repetitive and annoying gameplay.

game so good I remember literally everything after not playing for 4 years also while the games prices for the souls series and this are still a bit much after all these years, it's still worth it, especially with mods

Put this one off for years. It was the last on my list for Fromsoftware games. Man, was I dumb. Loved it.

10/10 Masterpiece! This game is amazing, but also the most frustrating game I've ever played (it's my first Souls-like game). The story mode is interesting, the soundtrack is fenominal, the gameplay is fantastic but very hard to master (I played this game with keyboard + mouse, btw.). The boss fights are VERY HARD, even the mini-bosses. I've given up many times, but something in my heart tells me I have to finish the game. Not to get all the achievements, but just to finish the game. So I tried, tried and tried. I wasted many hours on the same boss. When I reached the final boss (even though I had skipped Owl (Father)), I had a difficult time. The final boss reads my inputs and kills me every single time. So I did what they call a pro-gamer move: I just installed the "Sekiro The Easy" mod. AND BOY OH BOY! THIS MOD IS TOO POWERFUL!!! It only took me two minutes to beat the boss. XD (I wish I had found out about this mod earlier. T_T) I would still recommend playing the game without mods. I didn't use any mods before the final boss fight and I had one boss fight that took me 3 hours (I'm looking at you, Great Shinobi Owl). If you just want to experience the story mode, you should use the mod I mentioned. You have to treat this game like an open-world fighting game! Except that your health bar is gone after two hits. You have to parry like in Street Fighter 3 Third Strike, you have to dodge like in Soul Calibur, and you have to attack like in Killer Instinct, where the boss recovers after a few hits and gives you hell with COMBO BREAKERs or rushes at you like a tank. (I wish FromSoftware had included an easy or story difficulty mode so blockheads like me could enjoy the game without getting stuck on the same boss for several hours.) I don't know if I ever want to play a Souls-like game again, since I'm so bad at that genre. It's also very time consuming and I still have a lot of games in my backlog that I need to finish. Overall: Anyway, I'm glad this game is available on PC. It would be great if more FromSoftware games were available on GOG. Just for the sake of game preservation.

Strait up, it's too hard. It's definitely a good game. But it would be more fun if it was just easier. It's just too hard. Also the fighting is fun, but it's almost too simple. The bosses are fun, but it ends up being a memorization game where you memorize die a bunch while fighting a boss on purpose to memorize their patterns, then hopefully you can parry with good enough timing to beat them. This game is definitely not for the impatient. That being said, 8.5/10 from me. I'll update the review once I finish the game.

Well i have played the Dark Souls 1 + 3 and Eden Ring i was expecting a Souls like but nope thats not it... Let me be clear this is just my opinion but i dont like the fact that if you die you have no change to get your XP back or that if the Camera glitches the Boss/Enemie can get you if you are in the wrong Spot. I feel like the Timing is slightly off... Overall i dont like it very much even though i just played it for a few Hours

One of my favorite games of all time with the best fighting system ever created. Highly recommend!

“Sekiro is a game that gives you no direction, hides its story, throws bosses in your face, and expects you to enjoy it. It feels more like a psychological test than actual entertainment. High review scores? Maybe it’s a masterpiece — for sadists. Not for me.”

I prefer Ghost of Tsushima and Lies of P over this. But hey it is nice to see that some of the cooler mechanics of this made it into Elden Ring Nightreign, so that's a positive thing.

The game captivates from the very first minutes with its incredible atmosphere of feudal Japan, stunning visuals, and beautiful music. The combat system is one of the best I’ve ever seen — fast-paced fights, precise parries, stealth mechanics, and cinematic finishers. Every encounter feels like a tense dance on the edge of life and death. Bosses are tough, but beating them brings a real sense of triumph and pride. Sekiro is unforgiving, but that’s exactly what makes it so thrilling. It’s not just a game — it’s a warrior’s journey and a true challenge. A must-play for anyone who loves hardcore, style, and deep gameplay.

A very good and challenging game, I think it's one of the hardest games I've ever played (until I understood the mechanics), however for me dark souls 3 is better in many ways 9/10 is really what it takes, not for nothing the game got the game of the year in 2019

I got this game long ago for Xbox and i wanted it for my PC. I love this game. This is one of those game you wish you could get to experience for the first time again. Sekrio got me back into enjoying games and will have a spacial place in my heart.

Peak gaming besides guardian ape. Inner father and sword saint are 2 of the most fun bosses I've ever fought and I recommend everyone plays this game.

still stuck in the drunkard mini boss, great game 10/10

This game is very frustrating the first time I played it. You have to learn all the mechanism the if you really want to enjoy it. Sometimes you would feel like the game is cheating (it's not the case, the game is fair cruel but fair). Read the tutorial carefully. The story is also interesting.

I loved the game the boss fights are tough, and you have to learn each boss’s rhythm to dance with them. The clashing of swords is music to my ears, and it’s funny how some of the mobs are even tougher than certain bosses. I highly recommend the game.

Fun soulslike, parry mechanic feels good when you get used to it and the different kind of attacks mix it up a little so it stays interesting. The level design is kinda cool, but i play soulslikes mainly for the bosses so: This game has some really good bosses, but also a couple that are very weird and not really parrybased(most of i dont like) while some minibosses have a lot of enemies around them(which i find really annoying but thats just my opinion)

1st step get out of some shit hole and go to a your master whose a guy or a woman idk that gives u a katana 2st step get crippled by some guy named Genichiro Ashina and lose your master 3st step redrive your master 4st step kill the fat ogre 5st step kill some fatass tree sentinel copy 6st step kill some blazing bull whose on fent and runs around like a madman 7st step kill that fatass Genichiro Ashina but cant very good game

probably took a good 10 hours for me to even start enjoying this game but once you get it, once you understand how the game is supposed to be played, you'll love it. best and most enjoyable combat system I've seen and it's not close. it's a pretty short game and despite pretty much not having any kind of 'build variety', repeat playthroughs are very enjoyable due to how good and satisfying the combat is. there aren't any poorly designed sections in this game, it's short but the quality is very high all throughout. gameplay just feels very dynamic, not just the combat but also the movement. game looks pretty, good level design, good bosses, what's not to love? I've thought about it but I honestly don't have anything bad to say here. highly recommend, just be prepared to (probably) get your shit kicked in for the first few hours.

finally got good after 66.6 hours and beat the final boss without the charm and demon bell which made it a lot harder. this game forces you to perfect fights and once it clicks it is amazing

This is one of those games I wish I could forget about so I can play it fresh all over again. To this day, I'm still chasing that high, that sense of accomplishment from beating all these crazy bosses. Do yourself a favor, don't Hesitate to get this game on sale or otherwise. And it's best if you're coming from more traditional Souls games like Elden Ring, since this game will straight up spoil you with it's movement and mechanics. You might've even had a taste of them already since they're so good, they even popped up here and there in newer entries.

A must play to test any games true skills. There is no cheesing, you must git gud. Highly recommend this game to anyone desiring a true gamer's challenge.

As an Elden Ring glazer myself, Sekiro walks anyday. Every Fromsoft game has an issue, whether it be a feature or bug, its there. But Sekiro's is a bit different, it's only issue is that there is an end to the game with no dlc or sequel.

Some people dislike this game, but I simply can't hear their complaints over the tinnitus the boss fights gave me