Never played a FromSoftware game

[Weewid]

Hey guys, as the titles is stating, I've never got a chance to play any dark souls , bloodborn etc...

But i love this Samurai / Edo period.
And the gameplay is appealing.

Do you reckon i should play Sekiro or should i start by the Dark Souls or others ?

[Your Cat From 1000m Away]

Start with Dark Souls right now, to be honest, or at least Nioh. Because they are cheaper, if you want to test first, test with the cheap one to see if it is your style.

[Lefty]

Game is challenging and you will die alot so please keep that in mind. combat is simple enough to pick up and will take practice to learn the timings on things. if you get frustrated easy maybe give this a pass. if you're feeling up to it, its a enjoyable game imho

[Frey]

my favorite game was
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzGLmeuUV4c

do you think i will like this game ?
how is the replaybility ? cause Samourai 2 had an endless mode

[Kanaï85]

If you like the japanese Sengoku period, you should directly try to play Sekiro. I really like the gameplay of Sekiro and it's different than the other FromSoftware games, no need to begin by any Souls games

[DaciaJC]

Don't worry about the Soulsborne games, Sekiro plays quite differently. I mean, they're excellent games, but if you're mainly just interested in the Japanese setting, I would recommend jumping straight into Sekiro.

[yuzhonglu]

And dying. And never getting anywhere cuz you're always dead.

[Kamamura]

Choose whatever game you like. I played Souls, Nioh, and Sekiro, and I like Sekiro the most so far.

The combat is best in Sekiro, actually really resembling swordfights. Souls have the problem that you can roll out of anything, and you are really finding ways to cheese big hitpoint sacks. It's finding patterns and repeating them ad nauseam.

Sekiro, on the other hand, keeps you on your toes - you cannot get complacent, you can always die very quickly, and you have to learn to adapt and to quickly find ways to use your skills to escape dangerous situations. Sekiro feels fresh and fantastic. I highly recommend it. It also has the most "samurai" atmosphere.

[Weewid]

Sweet ! Thanks for all the answers.

I understand it's challenging but i think I'll give it a try.

[blitzstrahl]

No reason to play Souls if that setting doesn’t interest you. They are both unforgiving but otherwise your souls skills will only marginally help. Start with this game from the start if that’s your interest. Expect dying and expect to be punished for it. If you can live with that then the game is a lot of fun for those who are into learning through repetition and abuse

[Weewid]

blitzstrahl eredeti hozzászólása:

No reason to play Souls if that setting doesn’t interest you. They are both unforgiving but otherwise your souls skills will only marginally help. Start with this game from the start if that’s your interest. Expect dying and expect to be punished for it. If you can live with that then the game is a lot of fun for those who are into learning through repetition and abuse

Haha, ok, good to know!

[Ainmirro]

This game is verrrry hard. I mean. The hardest game of all the souls games.
Keep in mind.. That the learning curve is between 6 and 10 hours.

This isnt a casual cake walk, exploring the edo period. Its actually like practicing a martial art. Its going to take some time.

[Frey]

why can't we roll ?

[MrFrengLitch]

@Weewid

Please.... just please, keep in mind the game is hard as hell. Especially if you have never played any souls games. You'll probably want to scream at times. Dying like 20 or more times to a single boss. Its not just challenging, its HARD.

Other than that, game is great.

[Goilveig]

Given what you like, I'd say both this game and Nioh would be good ones. The combat systems in both are quite good, if different, and different people will prefer one or the other. One area in which I like Sekiro more is a unified combat feel for all enemies; in Nioh, fighting humans and monsters was very different in terms of skills and strategy, where here, everything fights by basically the same rules. On the other hand, Nioh has a lot more breadth of playstyles, with a lot of different weapons, each with their own skill trees and movesets.

Nioh has a lot more historical tie-ins to actual sengoku era warlords (after a bit, you'll be directly fighting for Tokugawa Ieyasu, and you'll go to historical battles like Sekigahara and the sieges of Osaka) and also has a lot more magic and mythological creatures, while Sekiro is more focused on human enemies and a plot that so far seems to be more removed from the overarching conflict going on in Japan during this era. For me, I found Sekiro to be a little bit of a breath of fresh air (there's only so many times I can play games starring the same Japanese warlords before it starts to wear thin) but if you're a big sengoku buff, you probably won't see many familiar faces here, or at least not in the parts of the game I've played yet.

In terms of level design, this game has a lot more depth in the world - it's an open world, and there's a lot more secret paths and areas, where Nioh is a set of discrete levels. I liked Nioh's artistic style a bit better (it proved you can have a gritty atmosphere without desaturating the universe), but Sekiro's art style is pretty good.

And yes, both this game and Nioh are hard. You will die. A lot. A lot a lot.

[sigina]

don't get mad is all I can say.