Customer Ratings & Reviews

Extremely gratifying, especially when beating a super difficult boss. There is no feeling like it.

Souls style game. The game is a little dependant on gear so beginning is a little tuffer than it should and by the end it little easier than it should. Overall was fun and good title to tide you over.

Aggressive and frantic gameplay. All the great challenges of dark souls games but with innovative combat system

AD THE SEKIRO SAY THE GAME OF THE YEAR OF COURSE IS THE GAME OF THE YEAR GREAT GAME

This game was great and one of the hardest games I've played. Definitely worth it.

Great game! I bought This game for my 18,year old he loves it can't put it down

This is a great game, very fun and satisfactory whenever you kill bosses or minibosses, but very hard to do!

NOTE: Soulsborne vet here - 100% all prior installments - 60+ hours with this game. An excellent experience, but in my opinion cutting past the hype of a new release --- it's a very clear step back from Bloodborne and Dark Souls III. Fans are going to buy this regardless of what I say, and I encourage them to, so rather than focusing on the game's obvious strengths - let's look at it's weaknesses to temper some expectations. Sekiro breaks every rule of Soulsborne mechanically. It's control scheme and necessary play style force the gamer to lose their prior muscle memory of any of those games or they will be punished. This provides as close to a fresh experience as possible for even Souls veterans, and while the new mechanics have some definite advantages over prior ones, whether you like it better or not will come down to your own subjective judgment. For me, these new mechanics encourage too much button-spamming (get ready to break your L1s and R1s people) - something that Dark Souls and Bloodborne (I thought) were right to punish. The special attacks in this game (stabs, sweeps, grabs) are also terribly annoying because you need to react to them in specific ways, but a kanji (identical in all three cases) often obscures them, making it much harder than necessary to react. Some mini-bosses also require specific consumable items to damage, which is genuine artificial difficulty - for real this time. Much of the design philosophy in this game aligns with the black sheep of FromSoft's recent work --- Dark Souls II. There are multiple "lifegem"-like items and a lack of truly interconnected world (fast travel is once again open from the start and most paths terminate in dead ends rather than the intricate world design of loops and shortcuts in Dark Souls 1 or Bloodborne). One "shortcut" in this game is legitimately more insulting that the Iron Keep volcano on top of Earthen Peak's windmill (the revolving wall from the top of Ashina Castle to Dilapidated Temple). Where at least DSII could pull some impossible space lore to justify this, there is no such argument to be made in defense of Sekiro. The music is an unfortunately same-sounding disappointment after previous installments. The addition of area music is a frustrating mistake as most will likely come to find it repetitive every time the standard "combat theme" goes off the thousandth time for a three second fight. Boss themes are made less memorable occasions by the addition of area music, and are often more chaotic this go around than actually having any thematic grace. Lastly, the main hub area has no unique theme unlike Majula or Firelink Shrine - a major departure that cheapens its significance. Lastly, the central new feature of this game - the resurrection mechanic - rarely feels like you can employ it to any sort of tactical advantage, as enemy AI often stays around your body even after you die and is still often alerted to you getting back up at ridiculous ranges. It boils down to an extra half a health bar, nothing more. The stealth mechanics and new focus on platforming are incredible add-ons in their own rights, but unfortunately provide a multitude of ways to now cheese most of the game, taking much of the skill out of actual combat and replacing it with something that, while interesting, is ultimately just less satisfying because of how easier it is to earn this way. Also, it goes without saying that the lack of character customization, multiplayer, and genuinely different stat "builds" greatly reduces replayability. In fact, after the first playthrough, almost every pickup in the game becomes practically worthless as without more than one weapon to upgrade, all upgrade materials have literally no purpose after you max it out, which is shockingly easy this time - no Pure Bladestones here! DISCLAIMER: Despite only mentioning my issues above, I still highly recommend this game. It's by far a GOTY contender and a worthy experience for any FromSoft fan. I simply have to say that for a project with Miyazaki's direct involvement, I expected more. It definitely feels like Activision got their hands on this one.

I'm a huge fan of FromSoftware's games so it was a no-brainer to pick this up! Sekiro is a bit different from the others when it comes to play style, it's important to learn how to block, whereas with Bloodborne you can be more aggressive. It has everything else you would expect from this developer, like beautiful world settings, music, and figuring out the lore.

I found myself not enjoying the game at first and the game was very difficult. I dropped it and game back to it a little later and decided to basically get good. This game feels more like the better you are at the game, the more fun you can have. There are several strategies to fight bosses and more than one way to play. Once you get past the learning curve, the game will become vastly more fun.

Fromsoft has more or less reached into the way back machine and made a souls-like reboot of the Tenchu series.

Difficult but fair. Awesome game. Once you learn how to beat bosses it feels awesome

Owe some game! One of the best over the last year! Challenging and fun!

Simply put it you liked dark souls or bloodborne you will like this. This game is reliant on aggressive play.

From Software delivers another addictive, learn-through-death style game highlighted by intense over the top boss battles, and a multitude of mini bosses that offer a rewarding challenge. The game departs from the former Souls games by rewarding an aggressive combat style. Gone is the traditional dodge-attack mechanic and instead it is replaced with a dynamic parry system, putting you up close and personal with your enemies. Once you adapt to the new mechanics, the game feels familiar to the previous souls games. In addition the Japanese backdrop is a great tease for the largely anticipated First Party Sony game. If your a fan of the series it is a must buy, You won’t regret it.

Oh man this game is great! Really hard in she same vein as the dark souls series!

Really fun and addicting once you get the hang of it (which is very difficult) but very satisfying once you feel comfortable with the mechanics and controls.

This game is not for the weak of heart. It won game of the year and it should have. Fantastic game

challenging, engaging, and most of all FUN, i cannot get enough of this game

Game is fun to play and looks very good on the PlayStation 5