Paulie

Records aren’t better than Spotify

We used to fuck on this

That’s Nanita’s spine, his maiden

I was disappointed they added nothing to base game like not even 6 player support or the datamined covenants nor the cut quests, it would’ve been cool to hear some dialogue in base game or meet base game NPCs with new dialogue + restoring cut quests but they clearly just focused on the expansion and that alone. It almost feels alien how nobody acknowledges the shadow world even though it’s such an important part in the story

Development time constraints due to Bandai

Honestly fair

I like when Midra is like “enough, I have endured more than enough” and then goes mask off

Wokeiro 😔

Those are just the villagers in bloodborne proper gamons

Headcanon that Sekiro and Issihin were lovers (hence the long dialogues reminiscing over Sake), Isshin’s disguise as Tengu in order to conceal the fact Isshin couldn’t be seen with Sekiro as lovers (shirtless of course). Which makes the final battle even harder because the words “hesitation is defeat” is exactly what Isshin had told Wolf over drinks when Isshin was confessing his love for him. Hesitation to find love within Isshin, to stop the killing and to prevent shura.

Even under the golden sun, in Buddhism gold represents enlightenment, love, and purity, the clouds obscuring those parts of gold represent Sekiro’s demise and fall to Shura, but they also could be a metaphor for Wolf’s hesitation to actually love Isshin fully. He had to kill Emma because it was his way of fully abandoning that relationship with Isshin, his trust, his love gone but in the end Isshin says “I couldn’t bring myself to hate you”

Also please imagine

Soulsesque theme (could be dark souls, blood borne, Elden ring) but with the inclusion of the sekiro parrying / posture mechanic although instead of deflecting it will be replaced with striking, think of a faster paced enemy that you need to attack but as your weapons clash that is the deflection. They included some variety of this in the shadow of the erd tree with that monkey boss with the glowing deflecting sword and some of Mesmers knights who deflect attacks but immediately follow up with an attack. Swords hitting one another increases posture, I feel it’s a good way to bring back one of the best mechanics in a different form. Sekiro was mostly deflecting and didn’t have the inclusion of stamina as such, but I could imagine a battle with an enemy where your swords clash which adds to the posture damage for both characters, so it would be a slightly more aggressive version of Sekiro imo

wrong.

Actually, although Sekiro takes place in the Sengoku era which is just 50 years after medieval times, the Armored knight boss is wearing armor that comes from Europe tying in the medieval themes. Also inspired by Berserk with the inclusion of Wolf’s prosthetic arm which can be fitted with variations of the weaponry added to Guts’ prosthetic such as, the fire cracker (bomb), the canon, shiruken (arrows). Notably the themes of Berserk although subtle still persist as Guts and Wolf share the same goal, to save their loved ones after having been defeated in an arduous battle. Sekiro is technically a “nobody” only because of his title of Shinobi where he is essentially an assassin whose presence is mostly obscured by the enemy. Whilst Sekiro inverts the typical souls narrative of reclaiming the position in power in a “dying world” the end of Ashina, his main priority is to sever the ties of mortality and thus aids Kuro throughout the game in order to fulfill the request. One of the endings does revolve around fire after Sekiro becomes Shura and is engulfed in flame. The final boss of both Shura and Severance endings are husks of their former selves. Shura Isshin is at his lowest power level and near death, Sword Saint Isshin is the version of him after having succeeded in his Coup although badly injured after having lost vision in one eye and other bodily injuries that wouldn’t deem him in his prime.

But yes it is the best Fromsoft game