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Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice - Review Thread
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I won't lie, I don't really know anything about opencritic or how it works
Thanks, will buy the PS4 version, then! Hoping for PS5 backwards compatibility and boost mode for 60 fps in the future! :]
Maybe some of that is true, but it could very well also legitimately be a more reflex and timing based game, which will make it harder than their previous games. In the Souls games, especially Demon's and the first Dark Souls, you had a lot more viable options on how to approach enemies (some ways were infinitely easier than others), and if you were really struggling, could always opt to just dump stats into the problem.
Dark Souls was an unofficial sequel to Demon's. Really a spiritual successor more than anything, but the two were more related than the games that came after.
FROM is to action/adventure games what BioWare used to be to RPGs.
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Here is the link for the Sekiro page ===> https://opencritic.com/game/6630/sekiro-shadows-die-twice
Here is the link for the FAQ ==> https://opencritic.com/faq
It's the most useful critical aggregate out there, but it's particularly useful for situations like this--where we have 3 separate platforms with a decent amount of reviews on each of those 3 platforms.
Don't feel too bad. And you're not playing Spider-Man?!? BLASPHEMY *hisses*
I haven't touched any of those games and they're in my backlog too. I know your pain lol
I don't really want to read reviews because I want to go in somewhat blind, but what are the common complaints?
You can keep pushing this opencritic thing, but its influence hardly extends outside the echo chamber that is resetera.
And have you actually looked at the same games on both aggregate platforms? They literally always net out or are +-1.
Sekiro will end up having damn near 70 reviews on meta when its all said and done and the average will be nearly identical as opencritic. Your disdain for one and love for another due to such innocuous reasoning as platform splits when the averages by and large net out the same is hilarious. Are you funding the page or have some type of financial equity in it?
I wish; I just want to make sure everyone has all information available to them such that everything is accurate. And it's not a disdain, it's a desire for transparency.
It will be curious to see who reviews on what platform, as the performance issues on console may (and should) rear their head on the console-specific reviews.
I know everyone hates Activision, but I really hope they approve patches and bug fixes quickly for this game.
Open Critic is calculating the aggregate based on provisional and in-progress scores (Telegraph, Gamespot). MC will likely go up once they are finalized.
The platform split will keep it from reaching 92 on the most reviewed platform though.
Its insanely difficult and the framerate is as uneven as the other Souls titles on consoles.
Yup, which is something that I think is a bit of a negative tbh.
Difficult in a Souls way, which is fun and fair, or difficult in a punishing way?
I knew it had giant roosters but bugs? Damn From, shit is getting wild...
Blahhh the game isn't coming to Redbox. Dark Souls 3 was on Red Box so I was hopeful..
Maybe I'll just blind buy the game and get my ass kicked.
Maybe I'll just blind buy the game and get my ass kicked.
In a Souls way. But remember that this game does not play like Souls. Ive seen it compared to Ninja Gaiden Black on Very Hard.
Every single person who says that does so as if they were the first. It's nauseating. :D
I cant believe how many people are having to learn you cant play this like souls despite the fact that every single thing about this game and its press has been "this is not souls". I imagine this is where a lot of the frustration and difficulty is coming from. Please do yourselves a favor and dont approach this like its dark souls.
I mean, why not? Wait a year, get a fixed game for half the cost. It's not like I don't have a backlog the size of Texas or anything.
Yep. I've accepted that I'll barely get through the games that I've wanted to play since last Fall this year.
Uh-oh. There's only two games that I've played in recent memory where I readily accepted after a short time playing that I'd never be able to beat (even if I wanted to): Super Meat Boy...and Ninja Gaiden Black.
Not to mention Edge magazine predates the usage of edgy by... a decade?
is there no easy mode in this game like previous souls (i.e. summoning). i'm prepared to die :[
IGN says Sekiro is easier than previous SOULS 😯
I posted them somwhere in the OT it was 130mb and had bug fixes along with improved game balance was the wording.
What I've learned from this thread is I hope From never uses a similar title in any game they make ever again, so people have to desperately keep adding to Soulsborne to make an encapsulating genre term.
Also yay for Sekiro reviewing well.
Also yay for Sekiro reviewing well.
Platform specific performance issues should not bring the overall score down. The only negative of MC is hidden critic weightage.
Back to 90.
The sample is too small,so every review added will possibly move it up and down until it gathers at least 30 reviews
Do we know how long the game is? And please no Bloodborne or Dark Souls hours, I've never played those to know how long they are.
IGN said 50 hours which sounds way too long.
IGN said 50 hours which sounds way too long.
so its a game literally less than 1% of the population can beat?
I only played NG2 on mentor
starting to wonder if it will be worth my time if its so hard.
