i have so much to say about sekiro and yet none of it feels apt enough to describe how i feel for this game, but i'll try. i've played most fromsoft games and while i enjoyed them, the combination of the gameplay and the way the story were told (piecing together lore) never clicked for me in the way it has for so many others. but man, did sekiro did.

the gameplay is praised by everyone for good reason, when it clicks, there is no game that feels as smooth or as sastifying as sekiro's parrying does, but what i love most about sekiro is wolf as a character and how the entire narrative and boss designs and everything about this game is about healing from trauma (or sucmbing too it) and seeing wolf break free from the chains of his life and change is phenomenal.

sekiro from the music to the gameplay to the sound design to the characters to the narrative is a masterpiece and it's such an amazing, worthwhile game and wolf's arc hits me in such a personal, resonating way and i just love him and this game.