I started off absolutely hating this game when I tried playing it the first time, came back several years later and ended up loving it. I've never been that big of a fan of Fromsoft games so it was a pleasant surprise.

Game can be brutally difficult, but you'll learn as you go along. Parrying and reacting to unlockable attacks takes practice but becomes seperate nature after a while, making for a uniquely satisfying combat system. The boss lineup is easily one of the best I've fought in a game, they'll all test your knowledge in one way or another.

The world is cool and beautiful, and the story is decent as well. If I had one major gripe, I wish we had more incentive to use the Shinobi tools. The way they were implemented makes them too limited, never seeing mileage. The same holds true for the different combat skills outside of Mortal Draw

Overall, getting gud really was the answer. Hope they create another game like this again some day.