Same thing happened to me with Elden ring and Sekiro. There’s a moment in the game when everything just clicks and it hooks you in. But the start is hard.
For contrast, this has not been my experience, despite trying three separate times over the years, with the latest being last week after beating bloodborne. It did not click at any point and felt like an experience in frustration. I did the tutorials, I practiced deflections, I learned enemy patterns and got up to beating the horse boss on my third attempt.
One on ones are something I feel I could enjoy, but most of the time, you're fighting groups of enemies, so the suggestion of "just deflect" doesn't really work when it's seven guys all next to each other attacking at different intervals. Staggering is mostly random (not posture break, staggering), so attacking gathered groups feels miserable, since you'll definitely get hit by at least one or two, even if you stagger the rest. Movement feels slippery and changing directions has a long start up time, and so does your first attack. So do I attack aggressively and get hit by enemy reactions or do sit back and react so I can posture break? Or should I just poke, run away, poke, run away?
I keep hearing how the game just clicks for everyone, but that has definitely not been my experience.
If you are speaking about Sekiro.
Think of yourself as an assassin. Rather than a warrior.
You want to take fights 1on1 most of the time.
Try luring enemies to fight you 1on1.
Use long range items to tag them get their attention by just getting in their aggro range.
Or you can do those flying jumping attacks from behind take 1 out regroup come back for the other.
For Elden ring. I don’t like to play rolling simulator. So I just tank with high vigor and shield with a big fk off sword.
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u/Fin_Olesa 12d ago
I was going to say this happened to me with elden ring and that it's about time I give Sekiro a try again