Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

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  1. ilovesekiro123
    Aug 14, 2023
    0
    it was perfect perfect the best game ive ever played in my entire life, absolutely breathtaking and was way better than bloodborne
  2. pxouria
    Jul 13, 2023
    0
    Best Fromsoft combat system ever.
    the boss fights are awesome and once you master them, this becomes the most enjoyable game.
  3. Fixxa
    Jul 6, 2023
    0
    Спустя столько лет не пофиксить импут лаги, поломанную камеру, поломанный таргетинг?
    Серьёзно? На релизе это было простительно и проходилось вопреки, но сейчас это уже не смешно.
  4. XCCMAN
    Mar 21, 2023
    0
    It is far too difficult, and there is no option to change the difficulty level. You are defeated by enemies in one or two hits. This is true even at the beginning of the game. In terms of accessibility, there aren't many options and the developers clearly have not considered disabled players during development. The only way you can beat even basic enemies is to parry them because theyIt is far too difficult, and there is no option to change the difficulty level. You are defeated by enemies in one or two hits. This is true even at the beginning of the game. In terms of accessibility, there aren't many options and the developers clearly have not considered disabled players during development. The only way you can beat even basic enemies is to parry them because they move so fast. Individuals who have difficulties in terms of mobility will find it impossible to strike a parry in time against enemies. Poor value for money considering it's impossible to progress beyond the start. Disappointingly, I can’t get a refund as I purchased a digital version.… Expand
  5. Jaddel
    Mar 11, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. 5 FPS on PS4, nice game!!
    Please dont buy it, unless you have PS4 Pro..

    This game is a joke on a PS4    … Expand
  6. AccurateRatings
    Feb 14, 2023
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Son of a **** do I hate Sekiro. I know most everyone does but for me it goes much deeper than that. I am beyond hate. 40 hours. 40 hours have I put up with Sekiro and its nonstop winning. I have had to watch the corrupted monk eat his **** W's since 2001. My friend is a souls fan, he says "Oh yEaH I HatE sEkIrO tOo BrO" and I say You dumb **** Shut the **** up with your dumb **** I have to play Sekiro RIGHT **** NOW. and he says "yeah but" and I can't even hear him because at this point I'm thinking about that youtube thumbnail of a fat shirtless headless at his cave and there is blood in my ears and hate in my heart. I can just imagine Geneshiro watching him waddle is way through the 40 and licking his lips. **** And don't even get me started on Sekiro fans. One of my "friends" is a Sekiro and Persona fan. THEY'RE ON OPPOSITE ENDS OF THE GAMING SPECTRUM YOU **** And he has the nerve to call me out for being a Zelda and a Skyrim fan.I DIDN'T HAVE A GENRE WHEN I STARTED PLAYING, YOU STUPID **** I CHOSE THE GAME WITH THE PRETTY COLORS CAUSE I DIDNT REALIZE THEY WOULD HAVE SATAN HIMSELF ON THE SAME CONSOLE. AND THE ZELDA AND SKYRIM ARENT HARD. I love how on this subreddit you can go to any given comment thread and find some idiot with a Sekiro flair talking about Wolf. Every Sekiro fan would let Wolf **** in their cereal every morning for a FORTNIGHT just to suckle one of his prosthetic fingers. and I just KNOW that they're reading this right now, because they infest game threads like a ganon of leeches, and halfway through skimming it with their limited reading skills they realize they have an erection, so they ctrl+shift+n and search Sekiro long hair until they bust a nut onto the keyboard, posting comments like "if this wasnt Wolf people would think this was cool" and "Le Geneshiro is da dark lord XD XD" or just "mmmphmmgofgpsngfjg" because they still have Wolf’s DICK in their mouth. They say don't cheer for injuries. **** that. I hope Sekiro gets hit by an airplane. He'll be screaming at one of his coaches who works day in and day out for him, because the ethereal Monk is up 49-0 and some insane fan will just lose it and prison shank him 18 times, and then once more for good measure. And I'll watch that **** on youtube for the rest of my life. I'll be there at his funeral to comfort Emma with hors d'oeuvres but when it's my turn to sprinkle dirt on his coffin I'll drop a picture of Elden Ring instead. And when security drags me out for causing a rumpus I'll just laugh and laugh, because I know that I hired the insane fan to do it. It was my plan all along. All I had to do was promise him the chance to wear Wolf’s skin. Oh, you thought the funeral was closed casket out of respect? No, no my friend. His SKIN is gone. Where is it now, you ask? It's been... distributed. A small bribe to the chef was all it took. And now Emma is wondering why her pig in a blanket has the faint taste of avocado ice cream, and the tears begin again as my laughter drowns out the wind and the rain. And the world keeps spinning. I am home now. Some days are good. Some days aren't. All I can do is live what life Sekiro has left me.… Expand
  7. bhappenstance
    Jan 22, 2023
    3
    Just completed Elden Ring and Sekiro pales *drastically* in comparison. Stunning graphics and fluid gameplay, but the swordplay mechanics are just shallow.
  8. Hungamer88
    Dec 19, 2022
    2
    I liked other From Software games but this is just pure junk

    Camera is horrible it can not hold up with the fast paced combat Gameplay is also terrible, when i press the block button it should block but it does not do it 50% of the time 5 minute explore on the map then stuck on a boss for 3 hours. Until then constant repeat the same thing is incredibly boring. Big difference to other    I liked other From Software games but this is just pure junk

    Camera is horrible it can not hold up with the fast paced combat
    Gameplay is also terrible, when i press the block button it should block but it does not do it 50% of the time
    5 minute explore on the map then stuck on a boss for 3 hours. Until then constant repeat the same thing is incredibly boring.

    Big difference to other souls games is that in those you upgrade and then you can progress.
    Here you can not upgrade and progress is only a factor of mere luck.

    In favour of unreasonable difficulty it sacrifices what a game should do in the first place. Give the user a fun experience.

    This is not fun. Its pure frustration    … Expand
  9. 80sChild
    Dec 11, 2022
    0
    I don't get the love for this game. It's definetely broken, but its recieved with praise as a "challenging FromSoft game". Enemies (all of them) rotate on invisible lazy susans to track you when you use dodge (making dodge pointless). Archers fire arrows that clearly change course to track you. Enemies rarely react to being hit and their attacks can seldom be interrupted. Theres a specificI don't get the love for this game. It's definetely broken, but its recieved with praise as a "challenging FromSoft game". Enemies (all of them) rotate on invisible lazy susans to track you when you use dodge (making dodge pointless). Archers fire arrows that clearly change course to track you. Enemies rarely react to being hit and their attacks can seldom be interrupted. Theres a specific move you can get for "crowds", I have yet to use it without an enemy interrupting it (and ignoring the move itself).

    Old, broken and poorly designed combat system lends to the games "difficulty" as you can really only engage in one on one scenarios. Camera system is horrendous is tight areas. Stealth isn't stealthy as enemies are always alerted when you perform a "stealth" attack.

    Its an old, outdated, broken design that is inexplicably escused away as "challenging", in almost all From games. More modern, polished games like Ghost of Tsushima allow the player to take on upwards of 20 enemies at once with combat systems that function properly.

    If you like broken, poorly designed games because they're "difficult". This is your game.    … Expand
  10. ATUMALAKA
    Dec 4, 2022
    0
    Thats hard as **** i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it iThats hard as **** i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it i hate it… Expand
  11. AR021
    Nov 26, 2022
    0
    Please make a game which all player can play it

    We don’t like the save system and difficulty of these games Why u don’t make an option for us too !

    Players should have the right of choosing between different difficulty and different save method
  12. Ajenjo33
    Nov 13, 2022
    0
    Juego de nicho sobrevalorado, inmerecedor de ser declarado mejor juego del año con contendientes mas aptos para dicho honor y mejor valorados.
  13. Timenick
    Aug 24, 2022
    4
    This game was a huge disappointment for me at launch and it has only gotten worse after I played Elden Ring. Sekiro is japanese Dark Souls but most of the good stuff is gone.

    - Worst customization of the series, because there isnt any. - Worst gameplay of the series. Fromsoftware can make games with a hundred weapons that all feel great, so if they make a game with just one weapon it    This game was a huge disappointment for me at launch and it has only gotten worse after I played Elden Ring. Sekiro is japanese Dark Souls but most of the good stuff is gone.

    - Worst customization of the series, because there isnt any.

    - Worst gameplay of the series. Fromsoftware can make games with a hundred weapons that all feel great, so if they make a game with just one weapon it would result in absolutely god tier gameplay, right? No. Its just one dimensional Katana bashing all the time and nothing else. Not really better than using a Katana in all their other games. Gets boring after the first few areas. Also it straight up doesnt work when fighting multiple enemies at once and all the other minor problems these games have (bad camera, weird hit boxes etc) are still there.

    - Worst online of the series because there isnt any as well. No coop, no pvp, nothing.

    - Worst overall content of the series, most bosses and all mini bosses and even some areas get reused multiple times. 3x Ashina castle, really? This is lazy. All the other Souls games have way more content and Elden Ring is probably ten times bigger than Sekiro.

    - Besides that its not better than the other games at anything. Bloodborne and DS3 still have the same or even better overall quality than Sekiro and ER and the Demon´s Souls Remake absolutely dunk on it.

    If Elden Ring is a $60 game Sekiro would be $5. Good that Fromsoftware got away from this misguided garbage.    … Expand
  14. BigDaddy6
    Jul 13, 2022
    0
    Oh this is a vary bad game pls save ur many it’s trying to be a souls game but the is just a **** game
  15. Nicain
    Jun 14, 2022
    3
    I thought about going on for line after line but in short, its a shadow of previous titles. They modified the game style that existed in the previous games, and that they went back to in Elden Ring which should tell you something. They gave you a ton of options while roaming the general map but all your boss fights are the same.
    You are locked into a parry combat style which make boss    I thought about going on for line after line but in short, its a shadow of previous titles. They modified the game style that existed in the previous games, and that they went back to in Elden Ring which should tell you something. They gave you a ton of options while roaming the general map but all your boss fights are the same.
    You are locked into a parry combat style which make boss fights maddeningly long compared to any other souls title because you arent really able to innovate, which is where my disappointment lies. Almost all the boss fights feel the same and are unnecessary long.    … Expand
  16. SekiroIsMyPassi
    May 15, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Can’t wrap my bloody head around that absolute nonsense of a **** up. Made by **** for ****… Expand
  17. M1ikey
    Apr 27, 2022
    0
    Not Souls gmae ):
  18. lc0403092
    Mar 19, 2022
    4
    Not a fan of the style of battle system, wont play any similar game anymore.
  19. Jansen89
    Feb 26, 2022
    2
    Really, I tried to like it. I failed. 20 hours, couldn't beat genichiro later on, tried so many times.. Design is cool, I guess from software really stays hyped by the fanbase. Not for me.. Sadly.
  20. Dyldom
    Feb 19, 2022
    4
    Probably my most controversial gaming take of all time is that I think this game is really really poor. I’m a huge fan of fromsoft games, in fact I’ve played every soulsborne game to completion at least once other than DS2. I really believe this game doesn't deserve to be in the same conversation as Dark souls and especially bloodborne. A lot of elements of this game feels like a step backProbably my most controversial gaming take of all time is that I think this game is really really poor. I’m a huge fan of fromsoft games, in fact I’ve played every soulsborne game to completion at least once other than DS2. I really believe this game doesn't deserve to be in the same conversation as Dark souls and especially bloodborne. A lot of elements of this game feels like a step back from its predecessors including those that came out over a decade ago. For example cutscenes that lead into boss fights play every SINGLE time you approach the boss. Not only does this not make narrative sense in the context of the game, but its needlessly frustrating. Fromsoft seemingly recognised this when creating Demon Souls in 2009 and this issue is resolved in that game, so why not here?

    Other than it’s verticality, the world is, in my opinion, less interesting in both its design and art direction than the games that came before it bar a small number of locations. The grappling hook which should be an absolute game changer picks and chooses when to work properly, and the option for meaningful customisation in the build of your character is gone completely. The combat, while extremely satisfying and rewarding during 1on1s, falls apart completely when facing more than 1 enemy which might be fine if there isn't a non optional boss encounter based on fighting two bosses at once. This is not an interesting way of scaling difficulty, this is creating a situation that the combat mechanics are not built to handle well in order to make it difficult for the player to progress.

    I think this game falls short in almost every aspect of its direction, and I’m adamant it’s Game of the Year win is some inside industry joke that I’m not in on.    … Expand
  21. Dwideshrude1
    Feb 16, 2020
    0
    This game is only hard if you think holding down l1 for 5 minutes is hard. The illusion of difficulty is created by the game decided you didnt press the button you pressed, or deciding you DID get hit, when youre literally 10 feet away from the enemy's hit, doing exactly what someone else did on video (theres tons of proof of bad hitboxes, and BS online, game eating button inputs on anThis game is only hard if you think holding down l1 for 5 minutes is hard. The illusion of difficulty is created by the game decided you didnt press the button you pressed, or deciding you DID get hit, when youre literally 10 feet away from the enemy's hit, doing exactly what someone else did on video (theres tons of proof of bad hitboxes, and BS online, game eating button inputs on an unnaceptable level (and the devs know their sycophant fans will defend the games bugs online, and send death threats to anyone giving below a 9/10) im playing on a brand new ps5, brand new controller, the game eats inputs randomly. It just does. Period. That alone bumps this gane down to a 5 given the nature of it. The corrput game journalism industry will tell you this was a great game, dont let them fool you. Go from playing better games, back to this, and it feels unplayable.seriously. i just beat demons souls in 4 days after purchase prior to giving this another shot. It hasnt improved in 2 years. Its still broken, and its fans are STILL liars. The amount of bots From bought to give this game 10/10's is criminal. No one with this input lag on Console, would in their right mind, give this game a 10. It is INHERENTLY FLAWED. Every. Single. Death. Is. From. The. Game. Messing. Up. Period.… Expand
  22. Little_Unicorn
    Jan 29, 2022
    0
    This is the most disgusting game From Software, Hidetaka Miyazaki and his team are probably witches who feed on hatred, anger and despair of people, I can't imagine any other reason to make this piece of **** The game is made for hundreds of perverts who pass DS and BB without leveling and with a broken sword in their hands, but it does not give me any pleasure to learn to play in thisThis is the most disgusting game From Software, Hidetaka Miyazaki and his team are probably witches who feed on hatred, anger and despair of people, I can't imagine any other reason to make this piece of **** The game is made for hundreds of perverts who pass DS and BB without leveling and with a broken sword in their hands, but it does not give me any pleasure to learn to play in this manner for 50 hours, do not buy this garbage made by sadists for perverts spending thousands of hours playing their games, if the PSN policy would be like Steam, I would definitely return the money. Spare your time and money.… Expand
  23. Jason0507
    Jan 11, 2022
    2
    This games starts off well with its introductory sequence. However the story ends there and becomes an endless sequence of boss fights. Once you defeat one boss you have to navigate through one small section just to fight another. This formula repeats itself through out the whole game. With little to no story and just rinse and repeat gamplay this game is almost unplayable.The game looksThis games starts off well with its introductory sequence. However the story ends there and becomes an endless sequence of boss fights. Once you defeat one boss you have to navigate through one small section just to fight another. This formula repeats itself through out the whole game. With little to no story and just rinse and repeat gamplay this game is almost unplayable.The game looks amazing but it is just like putting lipstick on a pig. This game tries to mask its flaws with its difficulty. It's very challenging until you determine the attacks of the bosses then it's just a matter of time before you defeat them. It's a poor excuse for a game.… Expand
  24. Dibalin
    Oct 24, 2021
    0
    Отсутствует полная русская локализация. Нет озвучки!
  25. mitsarakos
    Sep 8, 2021
    0
    DONT BUY THIS. its very very difficult!! You will get stuck in bosses and you will not have a way to progress further. I want my money back.
  26. oonabe
    Aug 5, 2021
    0
    This is the worst ninja/samurai game I've ever played, and yes, I know Sekiro is a shinobi but I put it on that more general genre so I can compare to a wider range of games that have similar settings and contents as this.

    Sekiro is a game that many people seem to think is hard and many players are proud to beat and speak about it with a big mouth, if there is a term likes souls veteran    This is the worst ninja/samurai game I've ever played, and yes, I know Sekiro is a shinobi but I put it on that more general genre so I can compare to a wider range of games that have similar settings and contents as this.

    Sekiro is a game that many people seem to think is hard and many players are proud to beat and speak about it with a big mouth, if there is a term likes souls veteran it's exactly because of that, they think souls games are hard and if they come back alive from that experience it's comparable to a war veteran or something. Well, let me tell you something, these games are not hard at all, their difficulty is mostly faked and the way to beat them often very very simplistic, which is why the games get so popular at the end, because there isn't really much to them, it doesn't really need skills or intelligence to beat any FromSoftware game, it only needs a little bit of patience to find out how they work and when you find out they're a piece of cake.

    With Sekiro this formula has been taken to the max, the game is not hard at all, it's only inflexible, it only lets you beat it by using a very limited range of moves, but if you have a little patience and learn those (I'm talking about basically four moves, it isn't that much) you can beat the game easily and you can see what a piece of crap and lazy work this game actually is.

    The game lives from a couple of ohs and ahs moments like some big snake boss or a moneky that keeps fighting after being beheaded and of course also of horde of vehement fans of this company who would buy anything as long as they see the FromSoftware logo on it, if you don't believe go see what they are doing with upcoming Elden Ring, all of them wetting their pants everytime someone sneezes and it sounds similar to the words elden ring, it's just like Justin Bieber hysterical fans at this point.

    The thing is that this game is so simple that it becomes boring after a couple of boss fights because anyone with a brain can see that no matter the boss design, if it's a samurai on a horse or an old lady or big snake... at the end you always do the same three moves and every fight feels the same. The story is crap, I've seen a lot of FS fans criticizing the story of other games when they're no different from Sekiro's then they don't do the same with this one or even say Sekiro's story is good. Also the NPC's AI is one of the dumbest I've seen since the 90s, just try throwing a shuriken to some enemy who's aware of you, you will see one single animation that you could looping forever if you had endless shuriken - lazy work, as I said.

    The difficulty is completely faked, most of it is hidden behind a terible input lag (if you compare this game's speed and responsiveness to most japanese games it feels like a bad joke, like someone telling you you have to run very fast and at the same time puts heavy weights on your shoes) and also the long animations. From the moment you push the button to hit with your sword to the moment your sword actually hits there is often a long animation that gives the NPC enough time for an input read and react to what you have pushed without being noticed, unless you have a brain of course, then you only need to use your logic to find out this game is no hard, it's only cheating you in a very cheap way. And the proof of it is the existence of an "invisible help" in the game, which as the name says it's not visible, there is nothing like a ghost helping you in battle, it is only that they give you a little bit more of random values in your favor when tricking you in such a blatant way.

    This game is pure crap and many people might say then why was it game oif the year 2019? Well, did you remember Activision put some money on it? Again, use your logic and don't be fooled by gaming companies like these.

    Sekiro is the worst game in this genre and anyone with a little bit of intelligence and analytical thinking can see it, don't let vehement fanboys tell you what you have to like or dislike, even when that seems to be the trend in the internet era. Don't even listen at me with this critic play the game but be critical to what you see and be honest to yourself when talking about it, that's what I'm doing here if you like what you hear or not. Cheers.    … Expand
  27. Tenarus
    Jul 6, 2021
    0
    I am just dissappointed by the game FromSoft delivered here.

    The voiceacting and graphics are good. But thats really it. The game is full of severe (!) bugs, the movement is very inprecise, buggy and laggy - you can clearly note, that FromSoft used the same engine Ds3 ran on and this engine isn't really suited for Sekiro. I would go that far to state: The movement is in points of bugs,    I am just dissappointed by the game FromSoft delivered here.

    The voiceacting and graphics are good. But thats really it. The game is full of severe (!) bugs, the movement is very inprecise, buggy and laggy - you can clearly note, that FromSoft used the same engine Ds3 ran on and this engine isn't really suited for Sekiro. I would go that far to state: The movement is in points of bugs, missing physics and in general its "wonkyness" the worst I have seen in any game up to this date (and this includes Skyrim!). The balancing is ok (you expect hard enemies from a soulslike game).

    Most of the enemies are repeats along the way. Enemy-design does not get interesting in the slightest. The bosses are bland as well and not challenging at all. "Challenge" only comes from the quantity of enemies, never from quality. Putting enemies right next to savepoints is just a bad decision design-wise; developers should know better and not make this mistake.

    I pushed myself to do the platinum, hoping the game would get fun at some point. In the end this time was wasted. Sekiro wasnt fun in the beginning and it still wasnt when I was done with the platinum trophy.

    2 points for voiceacting and graphics, 1 for new ideas (the arm with integrated hook, ...). But sadly 0 points for controlls, enemy-design and gameplay in general.

    Edit: I've given the game another shot once again and need to revise my scoring. If the only challenge within a game comes from its badly made controls, I cant give any points for ideas and graphics. Challenge compared to other souls-likes 1/10, execution of controlls 0/10. Overall funfactor of the game 0/10 as well.    … Expand
  28. Ben_ben
    Jun 30, 2021
    2
    Already Get Platinum trophy
    This kind of forcibly increasing difficulty should not be an example worthy of the game industry to follow. A lot of time is just for remember enemy action. Why not use high difficulty as an achievement trophy. Simple difficulty can also be experienced. I think this soul series design puts the core goal in Become the capital of the pass players to show off    Already Get Platinum trophy
    This kind of forcibly increasing difficulty should not be an example worthy of the game industry to follow. A lot of time is just for remember enemy action. Why not use high difficulty as an achievement trophy. Simple difficulty can also be experienced. I think this soul series design puts the core goal in Become the capital of the pass players to show off their complacency.
    However, this game bases on certain rules, practiced continuously according to some summed up styles of play, formed muscle memory, and finally defeated powerful enemies. The idea is actually the same as sports. The key is the satisfaction of winning. But the repetitiveness of the process is what I hate.    … Expand
  29. DickLucious
    Jun 22, 2021
    3
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. This game is ridiculously hard. Only low self esteem people scoring high the autism spectrum could give this a high rating. Seriously? Spending hours figuring out how to beat a single boss? I’m done. My patience has come to an end. My money wasted. Lesson learned.… Expand
  30. JD1872
    May 27, 2021
    1
    Love FromSoftware games in general but there is just nothing I like about this game.

    Really hope they go back to the winning formula they perfected with bloodbourne and DS3 with their next release
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#4 Best PS4 Game of 2019
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Metascore
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Universal acclaim - based on 77 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 76 out of 77
  2. Mixed: 0 out of 77
  3. Negative: 1 out of 77
  1. RPGamer
    Dec 17, 2024
    90
    Overall, Sekiro is defined by its riveting, challenging, and ultimately highly rewarding gameplay. Stemming from simplicity but giving a wide variety of different combat options, few games come close to matching the exhilarating rush that Sekiro’s best moments provide. Exploring its atmospherically engrossing levels is a treat, from a visual, musical, and atmospheric standpoint. Even if exploration and character storylines are sometimes hampered by Dragonrot, repeatedly severing the immortality of bosses with brutal “Shinobi Executions” and discovering the ritual secrets of eternal life offers a captivating experience that stands out as one of FromSoftware’s best and most distinctive titles.
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  2. Gamers' Temple
    May 15, 2019
    90
    Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is an enjoyable, yet deeply challenging game. It's not really a Dark Souls with samurais game, but whether or not you enjoyed the difficulty level of the battles in Dark Souls will be a good benchmark in gauging how much you'll like Sekiro. If you're persistent, up for a challenge, and don't become frustrated easily, then Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is an easy game to recommend.
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  3. Daily Star
    Apr 28, 2019
    100
    Though Sekiro feels impossibly hard at times, the level of euphoria you experience when delivering a death blow to a tricky boss or when you finally clear a castle grounds of all enemies is almost unparalleled.
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