Sekiro Is A Masterpiece [A Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Retrospective]

Sekiro is a masterpiece. In this retrospective video essay, I want to explore the impact of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, FromSoftware's brilliant shinobi-themed adventure game. Hot off the heels of their success with the Soulsborne games (Demon's Souls, the Dark Souls trilogy & Bloodborne) FromSoftware released Sekiro in 2019 to a mixed reaction. Sekiro deviated away from the popular Soulsborne formula quite significantly, leaving a few players disappointed and leaving a few media outlets calling for an easy mode. I want to try to justify every single change that Sekiro made to that FromSoft formula by arguing that all changes work exceedingly well and push the Soulsborne style into a fresh, interesting direction.

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Chapters :-
00:00 Introduction
03:38 Combat
11:42 Movement
17:07 Bosses
22:47 Setting & Lore
32:02 What's missing?
36:18 Negatives
38:51 Conclusion

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Music Credits :-
All background music is from the Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice soundtrack. In order of appearance:
"Main Menu", "Gyoubu Oniwa", "Sunken Valley", "The Owl", "Senpou Temple, Mt. Kongo", "Fountainhead Palace", "Children of Rejuvenation"

A few pieces of Sekiro footage are from the following channels:
- THE GAMER EYES (   / @thegamereyes  )
- 옹발이 ONGBAL (   / @_ongbal  )
- IGN (   / ign  )
- Boss Fight Database (   / bossfightdatabase  )
- FightinCowboy (   / fightincowboy713  )
- Vanguard of Calamity (   / @vanguardofcalamity  )

A few pieces of Dark Souls 2 footage are from the following channels:
- Matthewmatosis (   / matthewmatosis  )
- Otzdarva (   / otzdarva  )
- BlueLizardJello (   / itsbluelizardjello  )