I don't understand why people like this game.

I'm completely serious. This game sucks. So much potential wasted by having fatal flaws that make it a maddening experience. First of all. I like the concept of Sekiro but the way it is executed makes the game very annoying at best and utter garbage at worst. So many returning flaws from the other fromsoftware games. You would think that they would learn from these mistakes at some point but they continue to make their games this way intentionally for some unknown reason.

Locking on is still just as unpredictable and broken as it has always been since demons souls. Several times I click right stick to lock on to an enemy that is on screen but to my left but it doesn't lock on. Sometimes more often than not I hit the lock on button multiple times and it still wont work. Even worse though is when this lock on system will sometimes lock on to enemies all the way across the room effectively pausing your character making him vulnerable to attack. Also the fact that when it fails to lock on to enemies it will center the camera behind you is just stupid and makes combat a pain in the ass. Never have I ever or ever will want to center the camera behind me by clicking right stick. It's so unecessary and only adds a layer of annoyance that shouldn't be there to begin with. This shit happens frequently enough to where it gets me killed. In a game where every action counts I AM COUNTING ON THIS TO WORK. WHY THE FUCK HAVE YOU NOT FIXED THIS YET FROMSOFTWARE?

Hitboxes have gotten worse. Much worse. What's the point in having I frames when the majority of the attacks the enemies have in this game are unavoidable with the dash. Especially accounting for the attacks that can't be blocked. Of course you can make an argument that if you parry every blow the enemy has then it won't be a problem but that can only get you so far when you are constantly moving across the battlefield by pushing the enemy back into corners and other environmental hazards which make seeing your opponets attacks very difficult.

Combat is VERY demanding. The most demanding of any game I've ever played. This in itself would not be a problem if the timing for parries and blocks wasn't so strict. Several times I will attempt to time everything but it doesn't go through even though the enemy hasn't hit me yet. It's like the attack is happening before the animation plays out.

I can't believe that they made the character stagger in this game SO exaggerated that you have to press a specific button to get out of it. It also seems to happen at random. Sometimes I can block after getting hit somtimes not. I don't understand what is happening here. Why is this stagger thing in the game that does nothing but interrupt your actions when you are trying to even practice how an enemy attacks you. Even worse though is when you are knocked on the ground and you press the control stick backwards but your character rolls forwards when you hit dodge. Making you get hit again. It doesn't always happen but when it does it fucking sucks. That's another thing that sucks. Evasion.

Evasion is way harder than it has to be with the stiff controls of having to unlock from enemies, dodge away and then run until it's safe to heal. Something that everyone is going to have to do at some point.

I just defeated Genichiro and I arrived at a place called the depths of Ashiina. This was the final straw for me. I'm done.