started this the week it came out, and have picked away at it a couple of times in the last few years, but I thought it was about time to just get on with it.

I always seemed to bounce off of it for the same reasons. None of that "It's too hard business", just this sense that I wasn't really improving. I'd stealth an area, kill some mini bosses, then fight a big boss that would generally seem impossible on the first attempt, but after a couple of goes would show ways you could probably exploit it, and that's generally how I made my way through it. A little parry, parry when the game demanded it, a little bit of cheese when it was useful. I don't think it takes anything away from it, but I always had the feeling like there was a lack of progression. Sure I could get better at deflecting strikes and reading patterns, but that isn't half as satisfying as rolling up on a boss or two ready to wreck it in thirty seconds with a mega powerful weapon.

I think there's a good reason why so many more people are enamoured with Elden Ring, and Sekiro seems to be the most bounced off of when it comes to modern From games. Did I enjoy my time with it? Yeah, sure. Would I have probably liked it a little more if it had a few more ways to make parts of it a little more forgiving? Most definitely. And just to be clear, I fully understand why some people love it, as on paper it's my kind of shit, but honestly, it ain't no Bloodborne.