I've played FROM Software's games for thousands of hours, and I really hated Sekiro. This game somehow manages to do everything Sekiro was trying to do but better, from the feel of moving around fighting tough-as-nails bosses to the upgrade system to the plot twist where an area you've already cleared out gets taken over by The Bad Thing and you get to fight through a remixed version of it.

It's not perfect; I've almost gotten softlocked due to glitching into terrain and getting stuck twice before managing to glitch out again and area readability can be a bit hard due to how much visual stuff is going on all the time, but for such a small team it's an amazing achievement to get both gamefeel and environmental storytelling done down pat at this level of quality.

The game's also got a nice level of difficulty, it's super hard even for a Souls veteran like myself but there's like a dozen accessibility options to let you tone it down if desired (all the way down to being invincible and able to kill everything in one hit) so pretty much anyone can enjoy it. (Unless they're afraid of crabs, because this game has a lot of crabs)

I've played FROM Software's games for thousands of hours, and I really hated Sekiro. This game somehow manages to do everything Sekiro was trying to do but better, from the feel of moving around fighting tough-as-nails bosses to the upgrade system to the plot twist where an area you've already cleared out gets taken over by The Bad Thing and you get to fight through a remixed version of it. It's not perfect; I've almost gotten softlocked due to glitching into terrain and getting stuck twice before managing to glitch out again and area readability can be a bit hard due to how much visual stuff is going on all the time, but for such a small team it's an amazing achievement to get both gamefeel and environmental storytelling done down pat at this level of quality. The game's also got a nice level of difficulty, it's super hard even for a Souls veteran like myself but there's like a dozen accessibility options to let you tone it down if desired (all the way down to being invincible and able to kill everything in one hit) so pretty much anyone can enjoy it. (Unless they're afraid of crabs, because this game has a lot of crabs)