When I started playing Sekiro, the backstory was captivating enough to hook me up with this game. As I started my adventure my thoughts were like “It’s gonna be a piece of cake completing this game “  Oh! Boy was I wrong, I died in the first 10mins of the game’s tutorial.

The difficulty of the game is on par with a huge title like Dark Souls. This game is definitely worth trying by the Dark Souls fanbase.  It heavily focuses on evading & deflecting enemy’s attack with perfect timing and inflecting posture damage with a variety of attacks. 

You will be required to battle with many mini-bosses like Ogres, Headless Demons etc. But one thing for sure is that you will DIE… DIE a lot, It may get frustrating but bear with it, cause it is really worth it. Every boss has a weakness and you have to be good at exploiting it. It emphasizes precision and skill in its combat. It walks the line between patient stealth attacks and gruesome melee combat against threats both earthly and otherworldly.

This game is heavily inspired by Japanese culture and many references of their folklore are quite visible while playing the game for example in the case of a corrupted monk , She is based on a Japanese folk story of Yao Bikuni (八百比丘尼, “eight-hundred (years) Buddhist priestess”).

The game throws a variety of challenging and unique opponents at you and demands perfect skills with your limited arsenal of weapons. As the subtitle “Shadows Die Twice” suggests, you are gifted with the power of resurrection, but one should be heedful while making this decision . If you die, you just lose half the experience and currency you’ve collected, the only backdoor to this is the Unseen Aid which is essentially divine intervention giving you a penalty-free death.