[h1]Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice - I Want More Edition[/h1]
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Finished in 23 hours. And my biggest complaint is that it was over too fast.
I'm going through the entire FromSoftware lineup in 2026. Dark Souls Remastered,
Dark Souls 2: Scholar of the First Sin, and now Sekiro. This game is really good.
Like really, really good. But I'll get into that.
[b]First things first, get the Sekiro FPS Unlock And More mod.[/b] The game is
choppy and unplayable without it at this point. Get it before you
start.
[h2]The Learning Curve[/h2]
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The start of the game is rough. I'm not going to pretend otherwise. Certain enemy
types like shield guys and spear guys felt completely impossible early on and I
actually skipped some of them because I had no idea how to deal with them or stealth kill them. Shinobi
Hunter Enshin of Misen and Seven Ashina Spears nearly drove me insane.
Then I got the skills. The shield break with the axe. The spear grab where you catch their thrust
and hold it in place and it does a lot of pose. And everything clicked.
Those same enemies I was struggling with became completely easy. You just
dodge forward into the thrust, grab the spear, done. It's such a good feeling when
a game teaches you through progression like that. You're not bad at the game early
on - you just don't have the tools yet. Once you have them, you understand the whole
system.
[h2]Bosses[/h2]
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Most bosses were honestly not that bad once you understood how Sekiro works. The game
rewards patience and reading attacks, and once that clicks you start handling things
pretty well.
The one thing that genuinely annoyed me was multi-enemy boss fights. Sekiro is
clearly designed around 1v1 combat. When the game throws two enemies at you at once
it just doesn't work the same way. Dark Souls kind of gets away with it because
usually one enemy hangs back or is ranged. In Sekiro they both just rush you at full
speed and the whole system breaks down. The two big monkeys fight is the worst
example of this. The game was not designed for that and it shows.
The final boss though, that was a great fight. I went in late at night, threw myself
at him maybe 10 times, couldn't figure it out and went to bed. Lay there thinking
about it. Came back in the morning, died once to warm up, then did it on my second
try. Ran out of health potions mid fight and was completely convinced I was dead. I
wasn't. I killed him. Off with his head.
That kind of fight is what you want from a final boss.
[h2]The Movement and Combat Feel Amazing[/h2]
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The grappling hook, the climbing, the verticality. This is what Assassin's Creed has
been trying to do for years and failing at. Sekiro just does it better. All of it.
The movement feels precise and satisfying in a way AC Shadows could only dream of.
And you can [b]swim and dive[/b]. In a FromSoftware game. You can actually go
underwater. Which raises the question - why is this not in Elden Ring? You could have
had underwater areas, underwater bosses, an entire underwater DLC. FromSoftware
already takes mechanics and bosses from their older games and puts them in newer ones.
Swimming works great in Sekiro. Why did it disappear?
FromSoftware if you're reading this - open world game. AC Shadows size. Sekiro
movement system and combat. Dark fantasy atmosphere. Swimming and diving. Make it happen. We
need it.
[h2]The World[/h2]
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Beautiful. The art direction, the environments, the atmosphere. And you can feel the
DNA of Elden Ring Nightreign when you play this. The animations, the inspiration, it's
all there. Playing through the FromSoftware games in order like this makes you
appreciate how much they carry forward from game to game.
[h2]My Only Real Complaint[/h2]
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It's too short. Or at least it felt that way for me at 23 hours. When the final boss
died I sat there thinking "wait, that's it?" I wanted more. I was expecting something
after, another layer, more content, anything. There's no DLC for this game and I
genuinely felt the absence of it.
I finished it wanting more and that's both a compliment and a complaint at the same
time.
[h2]Final Thoughts[/h2]
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Sekiro is a fantastic game. The combat feels incredible once it clicks, the world is
gorgeous, the movement system is the best FromSoftware has ever made, and the final
boss gave me one of those genuinely satisfying moments where you beat something you
weren't sure you could beat.
Get the FPS mod. Learn the spear grab. Be patient with it early on.
Easy recommendation. I'll probably come back and go for 100% achievements at some
point. But first I need a little break from Sekiro. I'm not a person who wants to replay it all from the start already. It's too early.
Dark Souls 3 is next.
