Sekiro

I’m not good enough for this game. For reference, my go to strategy in other FromSoft games is overwhelming brute force. I max out whatever stat (depending on the game) is related to health, strength, and stamina and weight and I charge in. Tank hits, trade blows, eventually win.In this game I am a frail twig. Okay, I can work with that. I’ve been a light build a few times in Elden Ring. You want me to predict attacks and perfect block them? I can’t do that. I’ve been trying for years to master parrying in Darks Souls 1-3 and Elden Ring. This was my biggest weakness with the guns in Bloodborne.I am simply too panicky. I know I’ll just be told “memorize attack patterns” and “just practice”, probably a few “git guds”, and what do you think I’ve been doing? I’m not a Soulsborne novice. I see the enemy go to attack, and I try to block. Did it too early? Okay, I’ll die in like three hits and then come back to try again. For hours… and hours… and hours… and hours… and hours. Practicing on minibosses and basic enemies and the boss I am stuck on. Hell, I can’t even parry the basic enemies most of the time in the first place. Just when I think I finally did it right, I hear the wrong “clang” sound and realize I was point-something seconds off. I’ve devoted all my gaming time between working and sleeping (and eating) to practicing and trying to advance in the game. I’ve also tried taking breaks and looking for advice on YouTube and being as patient as possible. The former is hard when you’re trying to avoid seeing Sekiro on the internet until you beat the game once. I wanted to go into this blind.I am good at dodging, of course. Very good. Years of mastering the Panic Roll™️ will do that for you. But it doesn’t really get me very far in this game, especially on bosses. And by that I mean I’m stuck on the boss after Chained Ogre. The dude on the horse who guards the gate. Yeah. I am that bad at this game. It looks like fun, it’s clearly very polished, and FromSoft definitely made a masterpiece at least visually (from what little I have seen). but I am simply not cut out for this.I am close to reselling it at GameStop. And I feel really bad about it, almost like I didn’t give the game a chance. Then I remember I have given it a chance, given it over 20 hours (yeah, I suck royally). It doesn’t fit the way I like to play video games, even though overall it should be exactly the type of game I love. I feel frail, I feel slow in a fast paced game, and I feel dumb. I don’t want a game to make me feel like that. I want a game to make me feel weak but with a chance of improvement over time with practice, and Sekiro instead just continually beats me down even after extensive practice.I hope everyone else continues to love this game. I am not the type to call a game shit just because I am. This is my loss, not the game’s.

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