BB relied on dodging (with parry being the high risk-high reward) while Sekiro focused on Blocking/parry as the primary defence and offence. Potentially screwing up your scaling and once more asking too much for too little benefits.Īnd that's the big problem, trying to get clues from both BB and Sekiro, two game that are pretty much opposite. Which you can do, but, you need to use a particular weapon part. I would much prefer being able to ripost after a successful parry considering how tight the timing is. especially against a group (or worse, a boss) where it become completely useless and need to rely on the anemic dodge. Yeah, perfect parry does break enemies' weapons, but seeing you need to do it like 5 time to get at that point, and I never managed to get two parry in the same attack string, it feel too much for too little.

BB's rally worked because while you were getting wailed on/knocked down, your stamina got up a bit, giving you the the choice to wether attack or get out. Sure, you can attack to get that health back but you also just lost the stamina needed to do just that with a bad block resulting in a double penalty. Which is because the game want you to also use block/parry, fair, but in a way that's kinda reminiscent of Sekiro but once more, unlike FS's game, you not only have stamina to worry about but also damage if you don't get the timing perfectly right. Something you can't do in this because the dodge distance feel like half/third of BB's and the enemies not only tracks you but the I-frames feel way shorter. No equip load for a dodge that stay the same no matter what and let you either stay in the fray or gain distance quickly to recover. Resulting in frustratingly unbalanced gameplay elements.īB worked because the entire thing was meant for aggressive and fast combat. Okay, after getting to the third boss and looking up other people experience, I can say the game has a lot of potential but still need quite some work.įrom the get go, it is clear the main inspiration is Bloodborne but you can see bits taken from Dark Souls and Sekiro.

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