Now I want to see a game in which the pause menu literally causes all the NPCs and enemies to go idle. Like you pause, and instead of actually freeze-framing the action, it's more like yelling "cut" on a movie stage, and all the enemies just stop what they're doing and go into casual idle animations, staring at the camera, and then when you unpause they roll back into their action poses and then it starts back up.
Just toggle combat AI using console commands in a game that has them. The Elder Scrolls/Fallout titles over the past decade or so, source engine games, etc.
in La-Mulana pausing makes your character sit where they are, eat some noodles and then fall asleep this is actually necessary to solve at least one puzzle
I was going to make a "take a shot every time yahtzee says dark souls" comment but he found a creative solution that doesn't support my alcoholism. Well played.
I cheat. When the person openly admits to breaking your drinking game, you adjust to their rules. The moment he switches too James Bond drink I with the call to each bondulance oh help god.
Sanzu River yes I know that. But if you look at its origin and historical usage, it’s... well, the change seem to be gradual but originally it was head
Spy (ninja) who drink a lot (gourd water) stop a conspiration involving a convoluted plan (kidnap kid for inmortality) and somehow a woman is involved (Emma, Divine Child and Kuro). So, yeah, pretty much a James Bond movie!
I'm not, it's an extremely focused experienced aimed at a specific subgroup of the fans which tells everyone else to sod off. This game is not for you if you enjoyed From Russia Die Twice's: - atmosphere - level design - world building - world variety - enemy variety - level up mechanics - item variety - combat variety - combat freedom - magic - fantasy setting - character customization - combat - mele combat - range combat - 1 v 1 boss fights without annoying ads - boss fights not entirely reliant and memorizing patterns - boss fights not entirely reliant on quick time events - non-tedious boss fights - telegraphed enemy attacks - progression freedom - exploration rewards Well, now that you've made it all the way to the bottom of the list here, have a piece of glass.
Stacking all those bond films right at the end was a real cheap move, Yahtz. You took a shortcut and gained nothing. You experienced a hollow victory. Nothing was risked and nothing was gained. It's sad you don't know the difference.
I dare someone to show a fan sekiro the clip were Yahtzee says “ I have to compare sekiro to the spy who loved me” out of context and watch them be very confused
Messages, random invasions, and being a handy boss run helper. Oh well at least I only had to drag my carcass through Sekiro once, back to Dark souls and jolly cooperation!.
So according to this, apparently in Sekiro sometimes they flash the japanese word for nipples on the screen. Man, I really didn't know what I've been missing.
Well, but then they hack your nipples off, though. And also they do it in one of three distinct ways that all have the same sound and symbol but require distinct and completely incompatible countermeasures.
Oddly enough perhaps because I couldn't get bogged down in multiplayer confrontation, character creation, stat allocation or weapon selection Sekiro is the first From soft game I actually managed to finish.
@@jynxed66six54 sekiro is way harder than any souls game. Demons souls and dark souls 1, just light roll and get those i frames. Dark souls 2, just block it or shoot poision arrows at annoyingly big baddies (mastadon knights), and bloodborne's parry makes the game a breeze.
I was about to finish the game ( last boss and finally got a quarter in on his last bar) but then the next time I went into the game, my data got corrupted
"... this was about as fun as transporting several shopping trolleys up a gently sloping road." Yahtzee has a gift when it comes to metaphor and analogy. Bravo.
@@macmcskullface1004 Given his personality, the amount of alcohol consumed, and the fact that this was made in the 60's - someone probably should have been doing it. You really think liquored up Mr Superspy ultra suave ladies man is gonna take no for an answer from someone named "Pussy Galore"?
@@Isaac-if9pf the difference is that the plot justifies him doing those other things. How can you let your bullshit cloud your judgement so much that you can't see that? The thing about him raping and demeaning women is that he doesn't need to do it; it doesn't get him closer to his objective, doesn't help with the mission, doesn't punish any misdeeds, it's just him being shitty. It's also not a person's character flaw, it's many eliberately written scenes in many movies. We don't see him shitting, so why do we see him raping even when it doesn't benefit the plot? It's because they thought it establishes him as a manly man that doesn't take no for an answer. It's less a critique of the fictitious man, and more a critique of the movies he's in. The movies justify every killing as being of a "bad guy", and even then it's mostly in self defense, but they only justify the rampant misogyny and the barn rape with versions of "they were asking for it" and "they love it". Seriously, I love Bond movies, which is why, unlike you white knights defending them, I watched them and know how shitty they can be. Seriously, try watching this scene and say "yep, no misogyny here": ua-cam.com/video/bcNGYRKBfHA/v-deo.html
It's funny about the stealth aspect of this game: it is actually very much like Tenchu. Tenchu was that weird game that highly encouraged and rewarded expert stealth players in normal segments, but always ended each level with an unskippable, and difficult boss fight.
Speaking as a Dark Souls fan, I adore Sekiro's systems. I actually feel rewarded for learning what specific boss patterns lead to what types of openings, and the sound of steel ringing from steel bringd a tear to my eye. With Dark Souls my tactic was always roll at every attack and swing the big sword when it takes a nap for five minutes, but with Sekiro I can't just spam a button and hope for the best. I measure out each attack, and counter at the right time for each of the enemies.
I agree wholeheartedly. I relly enjoy sekiro for its streamlined combat, but I also agree with Yahtz as streamlining necessitates a bit of pruning. So I think the combat is generally stronger, but also less varied. Both styles have their place in my book. I really enjoyed Sekiro, but I think Darksouls is the one I'll be more likely to keep revisiting.
I dunno. I actually like Moonraker as it turned out to be a better movie than I was expecting. Having seen them all, it’s one of the better Bond films of the series.
@@raindrain1 ...Said the commenter who clearly doesn't know how bad movies can get. If you thought this movie was bad, HO BUDDY, you have no idea what you are talking about. Moonraker is cheesy sci-fi but by no means a bad movie.
...Moonraker is my favourite one. Granted I only watched a couple. I also like the one where he’s in the bahamas. I don’t know which one that is. I know I didn’t like Skyfall or Spectre.
Remember guys, he's explaining why he didn't like it AS MUCH in reference to Unnamed Bond Film #27. It might even be different enough a game to see on his Good list at the end of the year.
@@matroxman11 It's been a while since he has said it explicitly, but the general idea is that if he doesn't nitpick something specifically, it was at least OK. Given that most of the complaints here were minor negative comparisons to Tomorrow Never Dies, a game he would cheerfully marry if the law allowed it, it's probably fair to say he didn't hate it
@@talltroll7092 Yeah I think he mirrors my sentiment ,still a good game,but kind of a disappointing mixed feeling with most of the player agency being removed etc
@@majorgwedgie honestly I'm in the same boat. I really like the game but the other just has more elements I like to it. However I'm pleasantly surprised by how much I like it since I had major doubts I would enjoy this game as much when I learned about the major changes to character customization, and online play. I was wary but willing to try it. If the Skyfall 1 and 3 are both 9/10 for me then this would be a 7 or even 8 at times. Very solid game.
The parrying took me so long and so many lives to get down I was almost too frustrated to keep playing by the time I did. I remember killing the drunk bandit boss after training on parries, learning the items better, and beating a proper boss, and feeling awesome after countless attempts. Only to walk 5 feet and fine the butterfly hag. Then a tutorial popped up and I almost cried. It was a tutorial area.
@Fimbulventr Can confirm I made it through the Purification ending my first playthrough and there were a number of times I almost quit. Having beat every one of the last main Souls games this new combat system really trough me for a loop. That Lady Butterfly fight is one weed out point. The next is probably Genichiro. After that if you can get through Isshin you have just beaten one of the hardest things in modern gaming. So don't give up you can do it skeleton!
@@yellowcard8100 in a game notorious for its difficulty, its not exactly far fetched to find a really hard area and just assume it's where you're supposed to go
Miyazaki is on record as being anti-sequel, it's the primary reason why Dark Souls 2 was made by a different company and Dark Souls 3 even though it was directed by Miyazaki it's regarded as a sloppy sequel (not knocking DS3 at all, just saying it's obvious he didn't care when we saw constant rehashed enemies and an area with two bonfires within line of sight of each other). At any rate, I would love for some DLC or a proper sequel of Sekiro even though I haven't played it yet (I'm still working my way through the DS trilogy, then I'll head into Sekiro).
@@FamousWolfe Conan O'Brien had a gag on his show a ways back about using the word Thrice. But I agree with what you said, Miyazaki is a gem because he actually cares about the games he makes.
@@philj212 Yeah, I actually ended up playing it after I finished DS1 Remastered lol. I've beaten it 3 times already and it's hands down my favorite FromSoft game. I've also played through & beat DS3 which I thought was fantastic. I was doing a playthrough of DS2 but I gave up just before heading to Drangleic Castle.
He's called Wolf but Sekiro from my quick google search means crow. In actuality, Sekiro is supposed to be a shortening of a phrase meaning one armed wolf. This can be easily missed if you aren't very familiar with kanji which are traditional Chinese character that together form sounds but each have there own meaning. There is no equivalent in English. The difficulty of translation I guess.
As one who was more of a fan of Skyfall, I still enjoyed Sekiro. Though I think what made Sekiro difficulty city for me was the fact that a focal combat mechanic was focused on something I could never master in Goldfinger.... Parrying.
Well in The World is not enough, the second game's parry was more forgiving which I liked about it. Botw helped with that. In the other Casino Royale games, you either have to have the eyesight of a fly or take shittons of Ritalin to make effective parries.
As a From Russia with Love player who was rather unhealthily obsessed with Parrying and getting stealth backstabs where possible, this game is a godsend for me.
I'm a little surprised that he didn't mention the ninja stealth game, From Software published before this, Tenchu Z. Having that game in mind when I started playing Sekiro, I adored it. All the stealth action, but much faster pacing. All the speed and grit that melee combat really has. Just with ninja tools
I thought you gave a pretty honest perspective on the stealth gameplay, then when you got to the bosses that just went out the window. That was pretty spot on.
I think the Japanese character that pops up is the same for grabs, sweeps, and thrusts (Coincidentally, I use the same move set on women.). It really is just about learning what the enemy is going to do based on his movement.
Coincidentally, I too have a signature move called “the spicy armadillo” although I usually only get to use it that one time per year after a carefully choreographed sequence of events including the presentation of cellophane wrapped fauna and blowing the annual budget on wine and fancy food with difficult to pronounce names.
Sekiro made me think "Man this sure does remind me of Tenchu, the ninja game from playstation which was AWESOME." Then I found out it's actually Dark Souls meets Guitar Hero, where you need to slam all those notes perfectly a thousand times a minute.
@Distinctly - ST MD - Average if you think that's ridiculous, then crack open an Ian Fleming novel. "All women want to be swept off their feet. In their dreams they long to be slung over a man’s shoulder and taken into a cave and raped" is an actual line in From Russia, With Love. Ian Fleming could be pretty messed up.
In the original short story “Octopussy” is the nickname of the pet octopus of Major Dexter Smythe. Which makes sense. In the film it was changed to the nickname of Major Dexter Smythe’s daughter. Which is rather messed up.
This actually sums up why I felt kinda cold on Sekiro as opposed to SoulsBorne. Here I thought I was crazy for having a that stance while my co workers who like souls love it
I notice that Sekiro is reminiscent of DS1 with the focus on blocking and parrying and increased stealth ability, Bloodborne when it comes to the speed and precise timing, DS2 for a lot of the design and aesthetics, and DS3 for how badly it reams my video card in certain areas.
I'm right there with you. I really liked Sekiro, but I've beaten it one and I have no desire to do so again, even with all the different endings. FromSoft made a nice little game but I would not be upset in the slightest if the next game is a more traditional one again. One with different weapons and armors.
An update came out some time ago for Sekiro which brought in some new features, one of which was the option to leave and read messages made by other players, just like in No Time to Die!
Really feel the same way about the unblockable attacks, it's way too hard to tell what move the enemy is about to do. I bought that stab counter, but it doesn't do me any good half the time because I'll read the incoming attack wrong and get blasted.
I know this was 3 years ago, but for anyone reading this comment now, you have to actually watch the animations - specifically, the hands of the enemies (rather than pay attention to on-screen prompts). The grab, thrust and sweep attacks are painfully obvious in the animations - if the dude reaches his left arm backward, he's probably going for a grab.
it's tough to figure out but you basically just have to attempt the boss enough times to lean its patterns and then you start to be able to read the wind-ups. you still might counter incorrectly but then you have to put even more hours in to wire your brain to each different attack. sounds dreadful but i'm having a lot of fun with it
I don't necessarily think that the lack of variety in possible play styles is a negative. Crafting Sekiro with a particular style of gameplay in mind allows it to be honed razor sharp for that experience. Every fight builds on the same mechanics and challenges them in different ways. This game trains you to be good at it from starting as a little whelp in a way unlike most others, and that created a very satisfying experience for me.
@@DeletedUser410 And I think that's okay. I don't think all games have to cater to wide audiences. Dark Souls originally didn't, and Sekiro has just become even more specialized for a razor sharp challenge that I think anyone is capable of tackling, but not everyone has to enjoy.
You know what the weirdest thing in sekiro is? The fact that there are about 30 shortcut doors of which there are only like 5 that are actually helpful. Most are ooh a door, let me open it, oh it goes back to a hallway I never need to go back to that is only 2 grappling hooks away... great. My darksouls brain was so let down every time
My issues with Sekiro perfectly line up with Yahtzee's. And it's not bc I'm a Dark Souls fan boy. Sekiro was my second Fromsoft game after BB and I didn't like it much and then played DS3 after and love it.
Regarding the whole "killing all of the regular enemies before fighting a big dude every time you die," I honestly found it rather enjoyable as I learn the quickest and most efficient way to murder everyone without getting detected. In particular, I had some trouble with the miniboss right before the first encounter with the giant snake. By the time I killed him, I was able to kill every single enemy guarding him without sneaking or alerting anyone, even the two mooks and the lieutenant standing next to him, before getting a backstab on the general himself. It was really gratifying to be able to kill the entire platoon of mooks quickly.
I think the biggest failing of Sekiro is that it's a game made for people who already know all the facets of how to play it. That's somewhat true for DS and BB games as well, but this one takes the concept of mastery to another level. It's not my favorite From Software game, but it is actually my favorite one to replay. Once you've played it 3 or so times, it quickly becomes a boss rush you can blitz through in about 4 hours with hardly any deaths. There are a lot of techniques you can do which you don't NEED to do to win, but getting good enough to enter a flow state where you start peppering them in for flare feels really damn satisfying. I've hit a point where all the bosses can reasonably do without consequence is try to get away from me.
Yes, exactly!!! (I’m late, but that’s cuz I waited until Sekiro finally went on sale) Thinning the boss’s herd over 10 minutes only to get killed by him in 10 seconds is NOT FUN. Also, the parry-dependent combat feels like 2 kids banging hollow plastic swords together, until the older, bigger kid says “You died, I won.”
I know I'm super late to the party here, but one thing that really helped this game click for me was realizing that you're playing a shinobi. Sounds simple, but there's a lot to it. A shinobi did what they had to do to get the job done. They weren't "honorable" about it. They used underhanded tactics, picked off opponents, and when they had to, used quick, aggressive force to put down foes. I realized that, even though I was getting decent at the combat, I wasn't THINKING like a shinobi. I was thinking like a souls player. Once I started running from fights with large groups, hit-and-run tactics, and exploiting any enemy weakness I could find, I truly started to enjoy Sekiro even more than some of my Soulsborne runs.
problem is theres only ever 2 options in this game. parry or sneak attack. thats it. every fight is either parry or sneak attack, and its get boring. in dark souls or bloodborne, you had so many different styles of fighting that almost everyone had a different experience. in sekiro, you get one thing and then some minor tools that are hardly ever actually used.
My problem is that just doesn't work for bossfights. I LOVE the stealth aspect of the game, and the 3-D movement is so damn fun, but then you get locked into a room with a boss, and suddenly all that time spent stealthing around is worth diddly squat, and you suddenly have to learn how to parry.
@@andrewcleary9952 is that problem not handeled by the fact that learning the move sets and timing for parys on other enemeis doesn't translate to...well anything! From lvl 2 swrds now with hats to the short hat assassins, their windows won't help you with the boss. Which just adds to a problem i have, being the incredibably dense catalog of movesets and timings you have to learn. And bossess don't even feel good because you do it once, then they die. And usually that victory is on some fluke not a mark of mastery.
@@jynxed66six54 the thing about the tools is that they are actually lifesavers if used correctly, same with the upgrades. Thurst counter, flame prosthetic for red eyes, shuriken when enemys jump, the axe to break guard. And the sugars also help out. The items matter, but i know my honor bound brain thats trained for souls games automatically ignores anything that's not my weapon.
I never parried in ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’ but I’m looking forward to finishing Sekiro and then going back to ‘Goldeneye’ to see if I’m any better at parrying attacks.
I actually disagree with you, which is a shocking first. To me, the flow of combat and Shinobi tools made the game feel much different than Skyfall. The bosses with helpers always have an easy way to clear the helpers that you can usually figure out by playing around with your arm a bit, but there’s nothing stopping a skilled or bored player from charging in balls to the walls and prevail by sheer virtue of firecrackers and L1 spam. Casino Royal was more customizable, but this game isn’t trying to be Spectre. It’s meant to be a more contained experience where the replay value comes from polishing the gameplay and adding on difficulty debuffs. From how you described the game, it sounds like you were never able to separate the experience from Goldfinger, because you went in expecting Thunderball 4: Japanese edition. You never touched on the prosthetic beyond briefly mentioning the grappling hook, and that makes me wonder if you never explored using it in the first place. If Diamonds Are Forever is more your cup of tea, that’s fine, but you really sound like you’re criticizing Sekiro for not being You Only Live Twice.
The more I play A View To A Kill the better I get, and the more I enjoy it. If I wasn't a From fan I would've set this game to the side 30 hours in. It's a weird hill you have to climb to have fun, which makes it hard for me to recommend this game to people.
Parry based combat is a huge warning flag given only 1 game in the entire history of video games ever did it right, Kingdom Come: Deliverance. How does it compare?
@@BloodpactORG I'm afraid I haven't played that. I apparently fell into a hole when that game was release and only found out recently it was a thing. So I'm not really qualified to answer the question.
The big red text letting me know I'm about to die actually made it harder for me to react because it distracted me from the windup animation. Had to make an effort to ignore it. Should have been an option you can turn off.
In the stream he said he stopped playing before defeating Genichiro which is a little sad because many people say it's during that fight that they start enjoying the combat.
yes and no, the genichiro wont "suddenly" make you like the fight system IF you dont already like it. the combat is great, BUT its not for everyone. there are things i love in sekiro, but if im being honest, its by far my least favorite game of the "franchise", and the reason is, i really enjoy how balls to the way i can make a character in dark souls. in here, there's only one true way to do it(unless you cheese it).
@@mikezenox If you've beaten Lady Butterfly without cheesing her you'll be able to beat Genichiro. Mikiri counters and the Ashina skills that enhance posture damage will ruin his day
The first fight when you get Kuro at the castle top? If so, that's extremely disappointing... He is a make or break boss to get you understanding core mechanics.
I know Yahtzee is more entertainer than critic, but he said exactly how I was feeling about the game. Except for the stealth, because I think the stealth is actually worse than he let on.
Glad to know that I'm not the only one that enjoyed Goldfinger more than Sekiro! If you so much as mention you liked Goldeneye better you get a barrage of "get gud" ...
It's moronic to compare the two anyway as they're different enough to stand on their own merits.....it's like when people bitched at bloodborne for being too fast and difficult because they're trying to play like cowards
From what I've heard "you've got no choice HOW to play" is a pretty big recurring criticism of the game, every enemy has exactly one weakness and you're supposed to exploit exactly that weakness to defeat them (or you'll have a bad time)
GameDevYal most games don’t really give you a choice. Bloodborne didn’t really, they stripped away your shield so you had to get good at dodging. Sekiro is the same, you just have to get good at parrying
I mean pretty much everything is beatable with just using base mechanics but ya you are going to have a really rough go of it and some bosses are so weak to A certain prosthetic that it feels like cheating. And that's also not a good thing because while it's not exactly cheesing it is preventing you for doing what all from games eventually require you to do and git gud. You cheese your way through boss after boss and finally find one without an easy button and you get shitstomped because you never really learned the base mechanics
@@obsolete18 You know, I see a lot of people say this same thing, but most bosses have a window of time before they're vulnerable to the prosthetic again, or are only weak when they do a certain attack in the case of Lady Butterfly. Yeah you can learn to cheese, and that's fine and dandy if that's how you want to play, but the game is far better and more fun if you play the intended way. The fights are so much more cinematic and satisfying than anything in the Soulsborne series.
SaveMeXenu I'm not saying you should but the game most definitely tells you you should with most eavesdropping info being some variation on "man that big guy is really weak to loud noises. It would be very bad if someone used something that mad loud noises against him"
@@butternuts1990 Bull shit. Bloodborne had vastly different weapons and playstyles. You had a choice in there. Sekiro has no alternative fighting styles.
Parrying was my biggest gripe with the game. I get that it was easier than in DSand a new powerful mechanic, but there is too much parrying. It's a great game, don't get me wrong, but God the parrying was required way too much
This might be because I tried it after Elden Ring, which is probably the most different major FS title from Elden Ring, but I liked it for the way that it's got a laser focus on one playstyle. Kinda feels like the Hollow Knight of From Software games, with a fundamental core toolkit that you can't really get around even if you can supplement it in different ways, and every encounter is designed to work with that toolkit in a way that the games where you can choose your weapon can't match. And compared to the late game of Elden Ring, every boss has an etiquette to their design that makes the fights feel much fairer and also keeps the pace from dragging on, since basically everything can be punished if you're confident and skilled enough. Also, I agree that picking off a boss' goons is just part of the walkback, but I'm honestly of the opinion that walkbacks are a useful and underrated part of games that feature high-difficulty boss fights. They're the part where you process, figure out strategies, and subconsciously analyze the boss' rhythms. In fact, I consider the Kiln of the First Flame, the walkback for fighting Gwynn, Lord of Cinder, one of the best pieces of game design ever made.
pretty much every reason Yahtzee listed for disliking Sekiro compared to Moonraker was actually why I liked it more. the combat for the sole weapon option was so much deeper than anything you could get in the Goldeneye and it was pretty clear he didn't use the gimmicky ninja bollocks anywhere near as much as he probably should given what he was complaining about with the enemies
Honestly, while the difficulty is indeed far higher than in golden eye, I found that with patience and thought, Sekiro, in fact, far more receptive to player strategy. Most of the bosses and most of the enemies can be sneak attacked, and those that can’t more often than not still have aspects to their fight that can be exploited with good stealth play (like assassinating all of their guards in a series of sneaky hit and run attacks) taking down half of the difficulty of the boss fight right out of the gates, and regular enemies usually die in a single hit. Nearly if not every enemy, including the bosses, has a Shinobi prosthetic that they are weak to, meaning that with good strategy (or patience for trial and error) the difficulty can be reduced even further. The fact that you can sneak past most enemies, thereby getting in less practice with the combat, would be a problem if not for the undying punching bag you have back at your home base, which in and of itself I might consider a problem (why would you practice when you could be getting on with the story?) if not for the fact that said punching bag is one of the more likeable characters and that, through training with him, you gain access to new dialogue possibly containing story important information, which is a nice incentive to keep coming back. All in all, I think From Software has taken the lessons they learned throughout the skyfall games and has created a new and interesting IP with brand new gameplay that still at its core gives you that same feeling of struggle and success without ending up being nothing more than Dr. No in Japan.
I had more trouble with Moonraker bosses personally. I don’t know if I ever would have beaten some of them without summoning someone. With Sekiro you know you have everything it takes to beat any boss, it’s just a matter of learning the move sets and perfecting your reflexes. With The Man With the Golden Gun you’re fucked if you don’t have the proper build sometimes.
Jord an I disagree, unless you’re talking about the nameless king boss fight, or when you say “you’re fucked” you are implying that the difficulty is far above what it normally would be, and not that the boss is impossible to defeat
Saying the game encourages stealth is like saying you're "encouraged" to keep your hands visible and not make any sudden movements when the cops show up. Sure you can play the game without using the stealth... If you love dying. x_x
Now I want to see a game in which the pause menu literally causes all the NPCs and enemies to go idle. Like you pause, and instead of actually freeze-framing the action, it's more like yelling "cut" on a movie stage, and all the enemies just stop what they're doing and go into casual idle animations, staring at the camera, and then when you unpause they roll back into their action poses and then it starts back up.
Just toggle combat AI using console commands in a game that has them. The Elder Scrolls/Fallout titles over the past decade or so, source engine games, etc.
in La-Mulana pausing makes your character sit where they are, eat some noodles and then fall asleep
this is actually necessary to solve at least one puzzle
@@TheSmegPod Hah, slick. That's like the "close the gameboy" style puzzles.
That’s what I always thought would make for a good Pixar movie. Or Yknow, a decent wreck it Ralph sequel that didn’t suck.
smash bros kinda does that when you pause in training mode
I was going to make a "take a shot every time yahtzee says dark souls" comment but he found a creative solution that doesn't support my alcoholism. Well played.
"Hope you didn't put that bottle down lads"
new challenge: take a shot every time yahtzee says a bond film
you just aren't trying hard enough drink every time hes negative that'll do ya for alcoholic poisoning
But we can still get shit-faced, right?
I cheat. When the person openly admits to breaking your drinking game, you adjust to their rules. The moment he switches too James Bond drink I with the call to each bondulance oh help god.
I personally loved Sekiro, but I went in expecting something different from Casino Royale
so kinda like every dragon boss in the souls series @@corsegerspwnd
Same
@@corsegerspwnd no need to share your fetish
@@xVallan Apart from that dragon on the way to the god of war. He/She/Schlee's a bitch 😂
corsegerspwnd i guess Sekiro couldnt respect you being Bad at Games?
*"Shocks, gasps, someone faints, questions asked at Parliament."* I'm gonna start using that.
I legitimately burst out laughing at this in the script.
I'm going to start saying "like wanking with a pasta claw"
It’s good practice in thievery to avoid announcing to the world your intent to steal something...
His best quote it still “pants down, fist up bam bam bam”
I especially love the "you wot" that pops up.
Love how at 3:36 the Japanese symbols literally translate to "nipples"
I have never been so thankful to choke on pizza. Gave me a good chuckle at least.
You have completely made my day. Thank you
Interestingly, that word is made of “milk/udder” + “head”
@@bowmanc.7439 Technically, it's "neck". Sometimes it's used interchangeably though, so head is not wrong either.
Sanzu River yes I know that. But if you look at its origin and historical usage, it’s... well, the change seem to be gradual but originally it was head
Y'know, Shadows Die Twice almost sounds like a James Bond title so that was a good choice for an alternate to saying In Like Flint constantly.
Spy (ninja) who drink a lot (gourd water) stop a conspiration involving a convoluted plan (kidnap kid for inmortality) and somehow a woman is involved (Emma, Divine Child and Kuro).
So, yeah, pretty much a James Bond movie!
@@Dadan-dan Kuro is a dude ,dude
Did the both of you just assume Kuro's gender?!?!?!
@@gingermcgingin1733 **ahem**
REEEEEEEEEEEEE
@@Guru_1092 slightly bigger ree
"Shocked gasp, someone faints, questions asked in Parliament!"
Flawless delivery, I'm stealing that one.
Was surprised he didn't like Spectre : Live and Let Die
I think he liked it just not as much as Octopussy
I'm not, it's an extremely focused experienced aimed at a specific subgroup of the fans which tells everyone else to sod off.
This game is not for you if you enjoyed From Russia Die Twice's:
- atmosphere
- level design
- world building
- world variety
- enemy variety
- level up mechanics
- item variety
- combat variety
- combat freedom
- magic
- fantasy setting
- character customization
- combat
- mele combat
- range combat
- 1 v 1 boss fights without annoying ads
- boss fights not entirely reliant and memorizing patterns
- boss fights not entirely reliant on quick time events
- non-tedious boss fights
- telegraphed enemy attacks
- progression freedom
- exploration rewards
Well, now that you've made it all the way to the bottom of the list here, have a piece of glass.
Yahtzee, do you like Sekiro as much as Darksouls?
Yahtzee: "Doctor No".
@@Palora01 ngl the level design is better than dark souls, the verticality adds a lot.
@@Palora01 dark souls had ads I'm not going to call it something James bond so meh. But there are bosses with ads.
Stacking all those bond films right at the end was a real cheap move, Yahtz.
You took a shortcut and gained nothing. You experienced a hollow victory. Nothing was risked and nothing was gained.
It's sad you don't know the difference.
It's sad you dont know he doesn't care.
@@dontmindme5879 You don't watch Jim Sterling I take it?
Of the many things in life that deserve a great deal of effort and focus, replacing "Dark Souls" with different bond film titles is not one of them...
@@dontmindme5879 "Satire" is a foreign concept to you, I see.
I'm kind of enjoying all the people that missed the subtext of your comment. It has a small layer of inadvertent trolling to it :D
I dare someone to show a fan sekiro the clip were Yahtzee says “ I have to compare sekiro to the spy who loved me” out of context and watch them be very confused
"Try finger but hole" - Dark Souls 3
I'm going to miss sending messages
Oh you'l be sending messages before long enough.
And I'm not.
If you miss it, then you shouldn't have sold your copy.
Messages, random invasions, and being a handy boss run helper. Oh well at least I only had to drag my carcass through Sekiro once, back to Dark souls and jolly cooperation!.
"Don't give up, skeleton"
So according to this, apparently in Sekiro sometimes they flash the japanese word for nipples on the screen. Man, I really didn't know what I've been missing.
That's not really the kind of flashing I was expecting.
So, they literally flashed nipples at the audience? The best puns are the ones you don't see coming.
Well, but then they hack your nipples off, though.
And also they do it in one of three distinct ways that all have the same sound and symbol but require distinct and completely incompatible countermeasures.
"The name's Wolf. Sekiro Wolf."
So One Armed Wolf Wolf?
@Distinctly - ST MD - Average why the fuck would you ... I mean ... if you're gonna do that, WHY not James Sekiro..? y'know? 🙄
@@xdan- moon moon stahp!
@Distinctly - ST MD - Average oh I see, I'm glad it had _some_ referential meaning, I was like "dude all you did was make the joke worse" 🤔
@@xdan- Moon Moon is that you? xD
Oddly enough perhaps because I couldn't get bogged down in multiplayer confrontation, character creation, stat allocation or weapon selection Sekiro is the first From soft game I actually managed to finish.
git gud, casual
@@jynxed66six54 sekiro is way harder than any souls game. Demons souls and dark souls 1, just light roll and get those i frames. Dark souls 2, just block it or shoot poision arrows at annoyingly big baddies (mastadon knights), and bloodborne's parry makes the game a breeze.
@@skaterdude7277 sekiro, just deflect and then attack
I was about to finish the game ( last boss and finally got a quarter in on his last bar) but then the next time I went into the game, my data got corrupted
@@jynxed66six54 *Casul
"... this was about as fun as transporting several shopping trolleys up a gently sloping road."
Yahtzee has a gift when it comes to metaphor and analogy. Bravo.
This the Dr.No of James Bond films
Pretty sure Dr. No is the Dr. No of James Bond films.
@@macmcskullface1004 Given his personality, the amount of alcohol consumed, and the fact that this was made in the 60's - someone probably should have been doing it. You really think liquored up Mr Superspy ultra suave ladies man is gonna take no for an answer from someone named "Pussy Galore"?
@@macmcskullface1004 So "that's" who's in the Gillette advert.
I'm so angry because I understand this multiple level reference.
@@Isaac-if9pf the difference is that the plot justifies him doing those other things. How can you let your bullshit cloud your judgement so much that you can't see that?
The thing about him raping and demeaning women is that he doesn't need to do it; it doesn't get him closer to his objective, doesn't help with the mission, doesn't punish any misdeeds, it's just him being shitty.
It's also not a person's character flaw, it's many eliberately written scenes in many movies. We don't see him shitting, so why do we see him raping even when it doesn't benefit the plot? It's because they thought it establishes him as a manly man that doesn't take no for an answer. It's less a critique of the fictitious man, and more a critique of the movies he's in.
The movies justify every killing as being of a "bad guy", and even then it's mostly in self defense, but they only justify the rampant misogyny and the barn rape with versions of "they were asking for it" and "they love it".
Seriously, I love Bond movies, which is why, unlike you white knights defending them, I watched them and know how shitty they can be. Seriously, try watching this scene and say "yep, no misogyny here":
ua-cam.com/video/bcNGYRKBfHA/v-deo.html
*notices the last 5 movies being forced into the script*
"son of a-"
I thought it was obvious 30secs in that that would be the end gag. A tired formula.
@@psychomantis183 excellent job psycho mantis 👍 your psychic abilities are most impressive.
@@Mirmisian yes I know, but it did feel as he jokingly forced that part in the script on purpose..
never say never again doesn't count
Shame he missed From Russia With Love but inc. Never Say Never Again, since then he'd have got all the official Bond movies.
Sekiro: Shadows Die Fifty Squintillion Times.
AntiMainstreamMusic this is true
If you're a journo.
WOT'S THAT SKIPPY? Shadow's die fifty squintillion times?!
A Bazillion Ways to Die in Japan
AntiMainstreamMusic edgy name
It's funny about the stealth aspect of this game: it is actually very much like Tenchu. Tenchu was that weird game that highly encouraged and rewarded expert stealth players in normal segments, but always ended each level with an unskippable, and difficult boss fight.
Speaking as a Dark Souls fan, I adore Sekiro's systems. I actually feel rewarded for learning what specific boss patterns lead to what types of openings, and the sound of steel ringing from steel bringd a tear to my eye. With Dark Souls my tactic was always roll at every attack and swing the big sword when it takes a nap for five minutes, but with Sekiro I can't just spam a button and hope for the best. I measure out each attack, and counter at the right time for each of the enemies.
I agree wholeheartedly. I relly enjoy sekiro for its streamlined combat, but I also agree with Yahtz as streamlining necessitates a bit of pruning. So I think the combat is generally stronger, but also less varied. Both styles have their place in my book. I really enjoyed Sekiro, but I think Darksouls is the one I'll be more likely to keep revisiting.
"Pure Thunderball" is a phrase I would never think to hear, let alone say!
It should have more oomph to it for it to feel natural. "Pure Thunderbaaaaaaaaaaaal"
it sounds sexual....
And this is the only context in which someone ever said "as a fan of Moonraker" in an unironic manner.
I dunno. I actually like Moonraker as it turned out to be a better movie than I was expecting.
Having seen them all, it’s one of the better Bond films of the series.
@@NathanCassidy721 ...Said nobody ever, in any conceivable universe.
Moonraker is just bad.
@@raindrain1 ...Said the commenter who clearly doesn't know how bad movies can get.
If you thought this movie was bad, HO BUDDY, you have no idea what you are talking about. Moonraker is cheesy sci-fi but by no means a bad movie.
@@NathanCassidy721 I've watched The Room in movie class. Trust me, I have some idea.
...Moonraker is my favourite one. Granted I only watched a couple. I also like the one where he’s in the bahamas. I don’t know which one that is. I know I didn’t like Skyfall or Spectre.
"Shekiro: Shhadowsh Die Twicshe" - Shir Shean Connery
you should be ashamed of your shelf
RIP to my favorite Dark Souls actor
@DLilly
October 31 henceforth shall not only be known as Halloween but also as Talk-Like-A-Scottish Day.
Also me after a few shots of whiskey...
Thank you for including "Never Say Never Again." It is one of my favorites, despite its legal status with the rest of the franchise.
Technically, it's both a retread of Thunderball and a screw-you to the original studio.
@@daynechastant And a just terrible movie, even by cheesy Bond standards.
@@bandit0802 seriously, it's just awful. Casino Royale is the better of the two non-EON Bond films and it's a disaster too.
The James Bond shtick was hilarious. That ending bit had me rolling.
You mean... dodge rolling ? :D
Remember guys, he's explaining why he didn't like it AS MUCH in reference to Unnamed Bond Film #27. It might even be different enough a game to see on his Good list at the end of the year.
@@matroxman11 It's been a while since he has said it explicitly, but the general idea is that if he doesn't nitpick something specifically, it was at least OK. Given that most of the complaints here were minor negative comparisons to Tomorrow Never Dies, a game he would cheerfully marry if the law allowed it, it's probably fair to say he didn't hate it
@@talltroll7092 Yeah I think he mirrors my sentiment ,still a good game,but kind of a disappointing mixed feeling with most of the player agency being removed etc
After playing for a bit, he doesn't like it as much as the game that he loves but that he hated when he just played for a bit.
@@majorgwedgie honestly I'm in the same boat. I really like the game but the other just has more elements I like to it. However I'm pleasantly surprised by how much I like it since I had major doubts I would enjoy this game as much when I learned about the major changes to character customization, and online play. I was wary but willing to try it. If the Skyfall 1 and 3 are both 9/10 for me then this would be a 7 or even 8 at times. Very solid game.
Considering Austin Powers is his one of his all-time favorite video games, being not as good in his opinion doesn't exactly mean anything.
"The age honored art of having your friends do it for you" XD
You forgot to mention the best _James Bond_ film:
*_A U S T I N P O W E R S_*
YEAH, BABY!!!!
Do you mean North by northwest, right? ;)
Epicmonk117 *comrade... I think you mean
*Dark Souls 3**
The Murder Party Vote Khorne No. I mean
*_A U S T I N P O W E R S_*
@@Makareno94 Nioh is a good game!
The parrying took me so long and so many lives to get down I was almost too frustrated to keep playing by the time I did. I remember killing the drunk bandit boss after training on parries, learning the items better, and beating a proper boss, and feeling awesome after countless attempts. Only to walk 5 feet and fine the butterfly hag. Then a tutorial popped up and I almost cried. It was a tutorial area.
It's a Soulslike game, the tutorial doesn't end until NG+!
@Fimbulventr Can confirm I made it through the Purification ending my first playthrough and there were a number of times I almost quit. Having beat every one of the last main Souls games this new combat system really trough me for a loop. That Lady Butterfly fight is one weed out point. The next is probably Genichiro. After that if you can get through Isshin you have just beaten one of the hardest things in modern gaming. So don't give up you can do it skeleton!
@@yellowcard8100 in a game notorious for its difficulty, its not exactly far fetched to find a really hard area and just assume it's where you're supposed to go
I can't wait for the sequel. Sekiro: Shadows Die Thrice.
Miyazaki is on record as being anti-sequel, it's the primary reason why Dark Souls 2 was made by a different company and Dark Souls 3 even though it was directed by Miyazaki it's regarded as a sloppy sequel (not knocking DS3 at all, just saying it's obvious he didn't care when we saw constant rehashed enemies and an area with two bonfires within line of sight of each other). At any rate, I would love for some DLC or a proper sequel of Sekiro even though I haven't played it yet (I'm still working my way through the DS trilogy, then I'll head into Sekiro).
@@FamousWolfe Conan O'Brien had a gag on his show a ways back about using the word Thrice. But I agree with what you said, Miyazaki is a gem because he actually cares about the games he makes.
@@FamousWolfe not a different company, just a different director
@@FamousWolfe have you started sekiro yet?
@@philj212 Yeah, I actually ended up playing it after I finished DS1 Remastered lol. I've beaten it 3 times already and it's hands down my favorite FromSoft game. I've also played through & beat DS3 which I thought was fantastic. I was doing a playthrough of DS2 but I gave up just before heading to Drangleic Castle.
Every game needs a grappling hook.
Cooking Mama
Fruit Ninja
Minecraft
@@theladoflads7884 'grab the eggs off the top shelf withthe grappling hook'
Yeah. Just imagine The Sims with grappling hooks. Or Chess. :P
Can't wait for the next Dark Souls starring Idris Elba.
I... I want that?
"Transporting several shipping trolleys up a hill"
Just stack the things together Yahtzee.
As in - do the stealth properly or juggle enemies until only the boss remains kinda thing
He's called Wolf but Sekiro from my quick google search means crow. In actuality, Sekiro is supposed to be a shortening of a phrase meaning one armed wolf. This can be easily missed if you aren't very familiar with kanji which are traditional Chinese character that together form sounds but each have there own meaning. There is no equivalent in English.
The difficulty of translation I guess.
My goodness I haven't seen a Zero Punctuation video in a hot minute and I absolutely loved this one.
I want to show somebody this review without the dark souls = bond movie context
123 456 cut the first few seconds out and play it for them
T'would be confusing and hilarious to that watcher if Yahtzee didn't explain the use of the Bond film titles within the first minute of the video.
As one who was more of a fan of Skyfall, I still enjoyed Sekiro.
Though I think what made Sekiro difficulty city for me was the fact that a focal combat mechanic was focused on something I could never master in Goldfinger.... Parrying.
Well in The World is not enough, the second game's parry was more forgiving which I liked about it. Botw helped with that. In the other Casino Royale games, you either have to have the eyesight of a fly or take shittons of Ritalin to make effective parries.
Meanwhile I'm just over here like,
"I still love Bloodborne more than anything else From has made."
@@vigorouslethargy Well... I mean... Bloodborne was freaking awesome!
parrying doesnst always mean ds parrying. so its not something to compare
@@Exel3nce Fair enough. Like how parrying in Bloodborne is different than parrying in DS.
It looks as if the BOND between Yahtz and Sekiro ended quite quickly. Maybe he should play SPECTRE again!
As a From Russia with Love player who was rather unhealthily obsessed with Parrying and getting stealth backstabs where possible, this game is a godsend for me.
I'm a little surprised that he didn't mention the ninja stealth game, From Software published before this, Tenchu Z. Having that game in mind when I started playing Sekiro, I adored it. All the stealth action, but much faster pacing. All the speed and grit that melee combat really has. Just with ninja tools
"You have a nasty habit of surviving, Mr. Wolf!"
“yes, it was busting my balls like a cranky neighbour enforcing his yard boundary”
shit like this reminds me why i love zero punctuation
i love how at the end you can see the leap from colorful cartoony movie psoters to instant deep dark edgy ones
I thought you gave a pretty honest perspective on the stealth gameplay, then when you got to the bosses that just went out the window. That was pretty spot on.
Miyazaki: "It was me, game journalists. The author of all your pain."
Gravity falls reference?
@@vincentproud6589 No, it was a reference to the James Bond film "SPECTRE".
Hey, From Software, maybe Q could craft you some new plot lines.
You made Thunderball two bloody times!
technically, it remade it bloody only once, so far
This isn't ERB pal lol
Good joke though
That was good. A biiiit off target, but I salute you XD
@@williamaldred335 Can you let him get back to his rap please?
@@refusingtoconform Rap these you velvety hack
I think the Japanese character that pops up is the same for grabs, sweeps, and thrusts (Coincidentally, I use the same move set on women.). It really is just about learning what the enemy is going to do based on his movement.
2:48 Gerber Strongarm, great fixed blade btw.
4:46 What an amazing metaphor
Coincidentally, I too have a signature move called “the spicy armadillo” although I usually only get to use it that one time per year after a carefully choreographed sequence of events including the presentation of cellophane wrapped fauna and blowing the annual budget on wine and fancy food with difficult to pronounce names.
Sekiro made me think "Man this sure does remind me of Tenchu, the ninja game from playstation which was AWESOME."
Then I found out it's actually Dark Souls meets Guitar Hero, where you need to slam all those notes perfectly a thousand times a minute.
funny you should say that because FROM SOFTWARE made a few of those games.
@@tracerau7424
And they should make more.
I loved Tenchu :(
I also like the comparison I saw that Sekiro is 90% Tenchu and 10% Mike Tyson Punch Out
It plays a lot like Tenchu. Same publisher too, you'll notice.
Wow, Octopussy is an actual James Bond film
@Distinctly - ST MD - Average if you think that's ridiculous, then crack open an Ian Fleming novel.
"All women want to be swept off their feet. In their dreams they long to be slung over a man’s shoulder and taken into a cave and raped" is an actual line in From Russia, With Love. Ian Fleming could be pretty messed up.
In the original short story “Octopussy” is the nickname of the pet octopus of Major Dexter Smythe. Which makes sense.
In the film it was changed to the nickname of Major Dexter Smythe’s daughter. Which is rather messed up.
@Shaun TMD my personal favourite is Holly Goodhead
"The Spicy Armadillo" *LMAO*
This actually sums up why I felt kinda cold on Sekiro as opposed to SoulsBorne. Here I thought I was crazy for having a that stance while my co workers who like souls love it
I notice that Sekiro is reminiscent of DS1 with the focus on blocking and parrying and increased stealth ability, Bloodborne when it comes to the speed and precise timing, DS2 for a lot of the design and aesthetics, and DS3 for how badly it reams my video card in certain areas.
I love how he used "you only live twice" when he explained how much research you gotta do to understand Dark souls.
I'm right there with you. I really liked Sekiro, but I've beaten it one and I have no desire to do so again, even with all the different endings.
FromSoft made a nice little game but I would not be upset in the slightest if the next game is a more traditional one again. One with different weapons and armors.
3:31 You thought you could sneak "nipple" past without me noticing? You are mistaken, sir!
it sure does - see here:
jisho.org/search/乳首
For the unblockables, the thrusts and sweeps have a shine affect. If the shine is close to you, thrust. If not, sweep (generally)
Huh, I never noticed that. I just learned what the wind-up poses were so I could react in context.
An update came out some time ago for Sekiro which brought in some new features, one of which was the option to leave and read messages made by other players, just like in No Time to Die!
super late response, but: there is no difference in the kanji when you get hit by a perilous attack, you just need to pay attention to their animation
Really feel the same way about the unblockable attacks, it's way too hard to tell what move the enemy is about to do. I bought that stab counter, but it doesn't do me any good half the time because I'll read the incoming attack wrong and get blasted.
I know this was 3 years ago, but for anyone reading this comment now, you have to actually watch the animations - specifically, the hands of the enemies (rather than pay attention to on-screen prompts). The grab, thrust and sweep attacks are painfully obvious in the animations - if the dude reaches his left arm backward, he's probably going for a grab.
it's tough to figure out but you basically just have to attempt the boss enough times to lean its patterns and then you start to be able to read the wind-ups. you still might counter incorrectly but then you have to put even more hours in to wire your brain to each different attack. sounds dreadful but i'm having a lot of fun with it
@@agromchung ya, also worth noting that the kanji is the same for all 3 perilous attacks - it's just saying "heads up, look at the model!"
I don't necessarily think that the lack of variety in possible play styles is a negative. Crafting Sekiro with a particular style of gameplay in mind allows it to be honed razor sharp for that experience. Every fight builds on the same mechanics and challenges them in different ways. This game trains you to be good at it from starting as a little whelp in a way unlike most others, and that created a very satisfying experience for me.
@@DeletedUser410 And I think that's okay. I don't think all games have to cater to wide audiences. Dark Souls originally didn't, and Sekiro has just become even more specialized for a razor sharp challenge that I think anyone is capable of tackling, but not everyone has to enjoy.
You know what the weirdest thing in sekiro is? The fact that there are about 30 shortcut doors of which there are only like 5 that are actually helpful. Most are ooh a door, let me open it, oh it goes back to a hallway I never need to go back to that is only 2 grappling hooks away... great. My darksouls brain was so let down every time
The lack of real shortcut porn was disappointment.
It's probably cause you are so mobile in this game
Thank you for including Lazenby you crotchety old resident of Convict Island.
*FORMER resident. He's since moved to the Ideologically Divided States of Inane Dogma.
I have to give respect to that ending, well done ^^
I wholly appreciate the Bond title twist and this may be my favorite since FFXIII.
Could not agree more... never thought I'd just 100% agree with yahtzee but here we are.
Take a shot every time yahtzee say dark sou- oh wait
Take a shot every time yahtzee says the name of a James Bond film.
"What I like to call the spicy armadillo." I'm am stealing this..
Yahtzee knows how to make each review feel unique and entertaining. :D
My issues with Sekiro perfectly line up with Yahtzee's. And it's not bc I'm a Dark Souls fan boy. Sekiro was my second Fromsoft game after BB and I didn't like it much and then played DS3 after and love it.
Regarding the whole "killing all of the regular enemies before fighting a big dude every time you die," I honestly found it rather enjoyable as I learn the quickest and most efficient way to murder everyone without getting detected.
In particular, I had some trouble with the miniboss right before the first encounter with the giant snake. By the time I killed him, I was able to kill every single enemy guarding him without sneaking or alerting anyone, even the two mooks and the lieutenant standing next to him, before getting a backstab on the general himself. It was really gratifying to be able to kill the entire platoon of mooks quickly.
I think the biggest failing of Sekiro is that it's a game made for people who already know all the facets of how to play it. That's somewhat true for DS and BB games as well, but this one takes the concept of mastery to another level. It's not my favorite From Software game, but it is actually my favorite one to replay. Once you've played it 3 or so times, it quickly becomes a boss rush you can blitz through in about 4 hours with hardly any deaths. There are a lot of techniques you can do which you don't NEED to do to win, but getting good enough to enter a flow state where you start peppering them in for flare feels really damn satisfying. I've hit a point where all the bosses can reasonably do without consequence is try to get away from me.
Yes, exactly!!!
(I’m late, but that’s cuz I waited until Sekiro finally went on sale)
Thinning the boss’s herd over 10 minutes only to get killed by him in 10 seconds is NOT FUN.
Also, the parry-dependent combat feels like 2 kids banging hollow plastic swords together, until the older, bigger kid says “You died, I won.”
I know I'm super late to the party here, but one thing that really helped this game click for me was realizing that you're playing a shinobi. Sounds simple, but there's a lot to it.
A shinobi did what they had to do to get the job done. They weren't "honorable" about it. They used underhanded tactics, picked off opponents, and when they had to, used quick, aggressive force to put down foes. I realized that, even though I was getting decent at the combat, I wasn't THINKING like a shinobi. I was thinking like a souls player. Once I started running from fights with large groups, hit-and-run tactics, and exploiting any enemy weakness I could find, I truly started to enjoy Sekiro even more than some of my Soulsborne runs.
problem is theres only ever 2 options in this game. parry or sneak attack. thats it. every fight is either parry or sneak attack, and its get boring. in dark souls or bloodborne, you had so many different styles of fighting that almost everyone had a different experience. in sekiro, you get one thing and then some minor tools that are hardly ever actually used.
My problem is that just doesn't work for bossfights. I LOVE the stealth aspect of the game, and the 3-D movement is so damn fun, but then you get locked into a room with a boss, and suddenly all that time spent stealthing around is worth diddly squat, and you suddenly have to learn how to parry.
wow, i thought shinobi were honor bound but i guess i'm thinking samurai?
@@andrewcleary9952 is that problem not handeled by the fact that learning the move sets and timing for parys on other enemeis doesn't translate to...well anything! From lvl 2 swrds now with hats to the short hat assassins, their windows won't help you with the boss. Which just adds to a problem i have, being the incredibably dense catalog of movesets and timings you have to learn. And bossess don't even feel good because you do it once, then they die. And usually that victory is on some fluke not a mark of mastery.
@@jynxed66six54 the thing about the tools is that they are actually lifesavers if used correctly, same with the upgrades. Thurst counter, flame prosthetic for red eyes, shuriken when enemys jump, the axe to break guard. And the sugars also help out. The items matter, but i know my honor bound brain thats trained for souls games automatically ignores anything that's not my weapon.
This is exactly my view, sekiro was alright, but I never enjoyed parrying so it was eh
Sekiro: Shadows Git gud twice, Sekiro: Shadows deflect 1000 times, Sekiro: Shadows die twice... thousand
I never parried in ‘The Spy Who Loved Me’ but I’m looking forward to finishing Sekiro and then going back to ‘Goldeneye’ to see if I’m any better at parrying attacks.
I actually disagree with you, which is a shocking first. To me, the flow of combat and Shinobi tools made the game feel much different than Skyfall. The bosses with helpers always have an easy way to clear the helpers that you can usually figure out by playing around with your arm a bit, but there’s nothing stopping a skilled or bored player from charging in balls to the walls and prevail by sheer virtue of firecrackers and L1 spam. Casino Royal was more customizable, but this game isn’t trying to be Spectre. It’s meant to be a more contained experience where the replay value comes from polishing the gameplay and adding on difficulty debuffs. From how you described the game, it sounds like you were never able to separate the experience from Goldfinger, because you went in expecting Thunderball 4: Japanese edition. You never touched on the prosthetic beyond briefly mentioning the grappling hook, and that makes me wonder if you never explored using it in the first place. If Diamonds Are Forever is more your cup of tea, that’s fine, but you really sound like you’re criticizing Sekiro for not being You Only Live Twice.
I would describe Sekiro as -Dark Souls but not Dark Souls- Nightfire but not Rogue Agent
The more I play A View To A Kill the better I get, and the more I enjoy it. If I wasn't a From fan I would've set this game to the side 30 hours in.
It's a weird hill you have to climb to have fun, which makes it hard for me to recommend this game to people.
Parry based combat is a huge warning flag given only 1 game in the entire history of video games ever did it right, Kingdom Come: Deliverance. How does it compare?
@@BloodpactORG I'm afraid I haven't played that. I apparently fell into a hole when that game was release and only found out recently it was a thing.
So I'm not really qualified to answer the question.
Never played Revengence? I'd compare it's system of parrying more to that, and both of them work really well for it.
30 hours in? You can FINISH Sekiro in 30 hours.
@@thetri-bdojel2220 Well, you can finish Sekiro in about 24 minutes. Everyone plays at their own pace.
Sekiro's for Street Fighter 3rd Strike players.
PREPARE FOR BATTLE!
i quite enjoyed both games. and sucked at both too
Johnny Burnes Totally 👌🏻
"........"(Done.)
...Ah, a man of culture who mentions Street Fighter 3! :)
Alright! That's cool.
I was never that big of a dark souls fan but boy did I somehow love this game from start to finish!
The big red text letting me know I'm about to die actually made it harder for me to react because it distracted me from the windup animation.
Had to make an effort to ignore it. Should have been an option you can turn off.
Well, he missed the "Casino Royale (1967)". But again, nice video as always.
Not canon. That one was a Woody Allen parody film.
That one's controversial, what isn't is From Russia with Love which is absolutely a James Bond film
@@jmlkhan5153 Neither is Never Say Never Again, but he mentioned that one.
I think Yahtzee's been watching alot of James bond films lately... not sure though
I think Koolets hasn't been reading a lot of dictionaries lately... very sure on that one.
@@wavehopper4183 true, but that would imply one gives enough s to be bothered to even know or bother reading up the names of these kids
@@wavehopper4183 Could do the MCU?
@@wavehopper4183 If the titles had variety, the Godzilla franchise could have worked too.
Well he is British(?)
In the stream he said he stopped playing before defeating Genichiro which is a little sad because many people say it's during that fight that they start enjoying the combat.
Exactly my thoughts!
This fight has been driving me insane the past couple of days.
yes and no, the genichiro wont "suddenly" make you like the fight system IF you dont already like it. the combat is great, BUT its not for everyone. there are things i love in sekiro, but if im being honest, its by far my least favorite game of the "franchise", and the reason is, i really enjoy how balls to the way i can make a character in dark souls. in here, there's only one true way to do it(unless you cheese it).
@@mikezenox If you've beaten Lady Butterfly without cheesing her you'll be able to beat Genichiro. Mikiri counters and the Ashina skills that enhance posture damage will ruin his day
The first fight when you get Kuro at the castle top? If so, that's extremely disappointing... He is a make or break boss to get you understanding core mechanics.
I know Yahtzee is more entertainer than critic, but he said exactly how I was feeling about the game. Except for the stealth, because I think the stealth is actually worse than he let on.
Glad to know that I'm not the only one that enjoyed Goldfinger more than Sekiro! If you so much as mention you liked Goldeneye better you get a barrage of "get gud" ...
It's moronic to compare the two anyway as they're different enough to stand on their own merits.....it's like when people bitched at bloodborne for being too fast and difficult because they're trying to play like cowards
They're pretty similar... followed the same formula for success. It wasn't really that different.
You have, as usual, hit the nail on the head for me. I like the game, but you put into words what bugged me about it.
Lol
From what I've heard "you've got no choice HOW to play" is a pretty big recurring criticism of the game, every enemy has exactly one weakness and you're supposed to exploit exactly that weakness to defeat them (or you'll have a bad time)
GameDevYal most games don’t really give you a choice. Bloodborne didn’t really, they stripped away your shield so you had to get good at dodging. Sekiro is the same, you just have to get good at parrying
I mean pretty much everything is beatable with just using base mechanics but ya you are going to have a really rough go of it and some bosses are so weak to A certain prosthetic that it feels like cheating. And that's also not a good thing because while it's not exactly cheesing it is preventing you for doing what all from games eventually require you to do and git gud. You cheese your way through boss after boss and finally find one without an easy button and you get shitstomped because you never really learned the base mechanics
@@obsolete18 You know, I see a lot of people say this same thing, but most bosses have a window of time before they're vulnerable to the prosthetic again, or are only weak when they do a certain attack in the case of Lady Butterfly. Yeah you can learn to cheese, and that's fine and dandy if that's how you want to play, but the game is far better and more fun if you play the intended way. The fights are so much more cinematic and satisfying than anything in the Soulsborne series.
SaveMeXenu I'm not saying you should but the game most definitely tells you you should with most eavesdropping info being some variation on "man that big guy is really weak to loud noises. It would be very bad if someone used something that mad loud noises against him"
@@butternuts1990 Bull shit. Bloodborne had vastly different weapons and playstyles. You had a choice in there.
Sekiro has no alternative fighting styles.
Parrying was my biggest gripe with the game. I get that it was easier than in DSand a new powerful mechanic, but there is too much parrying. It's a great game, don't get me wrong, but God the parrying was required way too much
How to make sekiro parrying less annoying
Pretend its a rhythm game
This might be because I tried it after Elden Ring, which is probably the most different major FS title from Elden Ring, but I liked it for the way that it's got a laser focus on one playstyle. Kinda feels like the Hollow Knight of From Software games, with a fundamental core toolkit that you can't really get around even if you can supplement it in different ways, and every encounter is designed to work with that toolkit in a way that the games where you can choose your weapon can't match. And compared to the late game of Elden Ring, every boss has an etiquette to their design that makes the fights feel much fairer and also keeps the pace from dragging on, since basically everything can be punished if you're confident and skilled enough.
Also, I agree that picking off a boss' goons is just part of the walkback, but I'm honestly of the opinion that walkbacks are a useful and underrated part of games that feature high-difficulty boss fights. They're the part where you process, figure out strategies, and subconsciously analyze the boss' rhythms. In fact, I consider the Kiln of the First Flame, the walkback for fighting Gwynn, Lord of Cinder, one of the best pieces of game design ever made.
pretty much every reason Yahtzee listed for disliking Sekiro compared to Moonraker was actually why I liked it more. the combat for the sole weapon option was so much deeper than anything you could get in the Goldeneye and it was pretty clear he didn't use the gimmicky ninja bollocks anywhere near as much as he probably should given what he was complaining about with the enemies
Boy I’ve been waiting for this one
Honestly, while the difficulty is indeed far higher than in golden eye, I found that with patience and thought, Sekiro, in fact, far more receptive to player strategy.
Most of the bosses and most of the enemies can be sneak attacked, and those that can’t more often than not still have aspects to their fight that can be exploited with good stealth play (like assassinating all of their guards in a series of sneaky hit and run attacks) taking down half of the difficulty of the boss fight right out of the gates, and regular enemies usually die in a single hit. Nearly if not every enemy, including the bosses, has a Shinobi prosthetic that they are weak to, meaning that with good strategy (or patience for trial and error) the difficulty can be reduced even further. The fact that you can sneak past most enemies, thereby getting in less practice with the combat, would be a problem if not for the undying punching bag you have back at your home base, which in and of itself I might consider a problem (why would you practice when you could be getting on with the story?) if not for the fact that said punching bag is one of the more likeable characters and that, through training with him, you gain access to new dialogue possibly containing story important information, which is a nice incentive to keep coming back. All in all, I think From Software has taken the lessons they learned throughout the skyfall games and has created a new and interesting IP with brand new gameplay that still at its core gives you that same feeling of struggle and success without ending up being nothing more than Dr. No in Japan.
Marionette Du Auguste you just sold me on it
John McGuire glad I could help
I had more trouble with Moonraker bosses personally. I don’t know if I ever would have beaten some of them without summoning someone. With Sekiro you know you have everything it takes to beat any boss, it’s just a matter of learning the move sets and perfecting your reflexes. With The Man With the Golden Gun you’re fucked if you don’t have the proper build sometimes.
Jord an I disagree, unless you’re talking about the nameless king boss fight, or when you say “you’re fucked” you are implying that the difficulty is far above what it normally would be, and not that the boss is impossible to defeat
Saying the game encourages stealth is like saying you're "encouraged" to keep your hands visible and not make any sudden movements when the cops show up. Sure you can play the game without using the stealth... If you love dying. x_x
Already played the hell out of Nioh and God of War. Had zero desire to play Sekiro. And this is coming from someone who LOVES From Software.
if only no time to die gave the same awesome samurai feeling, while not being a rhythm game in disguise like sekiro