Free Step Dodge

i know it's supposed to promote fast aggressive playstyle over a slow defensive one, but something about managing multiple bars on the enemy just doesn't do it for me. personally i'd prefer having poise breakpoints (DS), health breakpoints (LotF), or the classic "if you've done enough damage you can finish them off with a cinematic hit" mechanic

I uninstalled sekiro after a few hours. "Totally not souls" feels totally like a qte version of souls with tenchu-in-bad mechanics. Plus they do everything wrong they did right previously, like attacks that track 1080° and useless normal attacks, no special attacks and no variety. Nioh > ToiletSoft games

Well if you play it like dark souls with ninjas then of course you're not gonna like it lol, dodging has been mad nerfed so you can't just i-frame your way through everything, defense is more about deflecting with your sword, countering with bare hand, and jump punishing, you can still dodge but its not the answer to everything like it is in DS.

Also no special attacks or variety? My dude, have you even messed around with prosthetic arm? Where you can equip a spear, a shiruken dispenser, an axe, a flamethrower, and many other attachments? And u can upgrade them to make them stronger, add even more attacks, or upgrade to use them in conjunction with your sword? You can find these with the first two hours of play so I dunno what your talking about

Frankly, I don't have any interest in Sekiro simply because I haven't played a FromSoftware game that was actually good. For what it counts, Sekiro looks better. But it's not like I'm gonna pry myself away from DMC5 for it.