Turning to multiplayer after Sekiro made sense for me, though. I remember thinking 'but why?' when Gearbox made Battleborn instead of another Borderlands. When people were worrying about the death of singleplayer games in 2016 or so, I was one of them. (Image credit: From Software) Chasing masteryĪside from a long, torrid affair with Rocket League, I'm not really a multiplayer guy.
So I turned to competitive multiplayer instead-and found exactly what I was looking for. I keep yearning for that same challenge and satisfaction and coming up empty. I've still played a lot of cool stuff in that time, like Slay the Spire and The Outer Worlds, but during a good year I'll usually finish 20-30 games. I've only finished three singleplayer games in the 15 months since I first beat Sekiro, which is extremely low for me. All of Sekiro's bosses are meaningfully different-each represents a pocket of failed attempts that collectively tell a great story of your success as a player. There's some skill in staying alive and killing enemies on your level, sure, but I couldn't tell you why one fight in a recent Assassin's Creed game was better than another. It's hard to be good at the combat in Assassin's Creed Odyssey, for example, because the game is so heavily gated by RPG-style levels that you can't meaningfully take on a boss who's too hard for you-they'll find arbitrary ways to kill you. NG+ is really the second half of Sekiro.īlockbuster singleplayer games don't really demand mastery in the same way. It's celebrating your mastery of a bastard-hard combat system and sets you up for a second playthrough where you can confidently steamroller your enemies. Offering two outcomes at this moment makes a deliberate point: At the start of your second run you're closing the loop on your first playthrough by bullying the same boss who annihilated you when the game started 30 hours ago. Pushing through the pain barrier was the rewarding experience I'd heard about from Bloodborne or Souls players, yet never had myself The rush of that win kicked off my obsession with Sekiro last year-and made every singleplayer game I've touched since feel dull by comparison. On your second try, though, during New Game+, it's a pretty easy fight to win, because at this point the rhythm of Sekiro's combat has become deeply ingrained.
On your first try you're certain to fail, since you know very little about Sekiro's combat system and your opponent is bewilderingly fast and deadly.
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