JonB wrote:

People are going to want bosses.

At this stage, I can honestly say I'd prefer self-employment.

Yeah a souls-like suggests it’s a rip-off of the souls games. This is the next evolution/variation of the genre From Software created.

Mikemsp wrote:

Yeah a souls-like suggests it’s a rip-off of the souls games. This is the next evolution/variation of the genre From Software created.

From the brief moment i had with it your suggestion is bang on in my opinion. It’s awesome in whole new ways but at the same time it’s a souls game. Evelotion not revolution. To me it is Tenchu on steroids X 10 with souls added for effect.

If its a dark souls like game executed well ala Nioh, then I'm all in. Love those type of games.

Revengeance is mine - Hidetaka Miyazaki

Had a gander at a video for this. I can't quite work out if the combat will be for me or not. It certainly looks more to my taste than Dark Souls, but not exactly the Ninja Gaiden-style that I was hoping for from the trailer.

Fingers crossed there's a demo.

Just saw some playthrough of this. Reminds me of Tenchu with difficulty ramped up to Souls level. I was always shite at parrying in Souls and seeing as that's core to this game, I may have to give this a miss...

Perhaps the biggest shock from watching the few minutes I did was that there is no stamina gauge, which is an interesting ommision given the impact that mechanic has had altogether.

The poise gauge stuff seems a little more complicated, especially how it interacts with the health of bigger enemies, but overall it sounds like a far more interesting combat system than any of the prior Souls games, with lots of opportunities open to be incredibly good at via mikiri counters and regular parries.

The whole instant revival thing is interesting too, especially as it lets you re-engage in a stealth state of timed right. Doesn’t look like enemy lethality is down through, I saw ENB get absolutely bodied in seconds flat in just basic encounters.

Overall I am very excited.

I think it’s more of a departure from the Souls series in a lot of ways. Genuinely looks and feels like a Platum game being played on a high difficulty. Stats going the way of the dodo is totally fine by me.

With this and DMC V, the release schedule really needs to calm tf down

afgavinstan wrote:

With this and DMC V, the release schedule really needs to calm tf down

It's mainly just this month, I think. Probably trying to get stuff out before the end of Q1. Should be time to catch up in the next few months.

Chances are I'll still get this asap. I can usually wait for price drops, but will make an exception here.

Think I'll sell Red Dead to fund this. Just can't get on with it.

Tempy wrote:

Roujin wrote:

I am now extremely excite for this game after being not fussed having had my fill of DS by DS2 and not really liking Bloodborne as much (I know, it's a great game, u may pelt me with ur rotten veg, it okay) based on these latest descriptions.

Boooooo, you a bad mans

It true, am the blurst.

I've been sleeping on this, but the following Polygon quote gave me a bit of a twinge (spoilers because it describes mechanics etc.)

Hmm.

It started as a Tenchu game