On regular foes, your deathblow is effectively an execution. Parrying an attack lowers your enemy’s posture, and when they run out, they’re momentarily dazed or staggered, leaving them open to a deathblow. Not every attack can be blocked or parried, requiring you to keep on your toes, but generally the idea is to break your enemy’s guard so you can find an opening. In practice, it means that instead of just standing there, holding the block button to avoid taking damage, you’re trying to time your blocks to your enemies’ strikes to parry their attacks. This dueling style revolves around a mechanic similar to the Stamina meter seen in Dark Souls games and Bloodborne called “posture.” In a fight, you’re always trying to wear down each enemy’s posture meter so that you can execute an extremely powerful “Shinobi deathblow” to take them down. You’re always carrying a katana in your right hand, and when you go up against enemies, you’re constantly trying to defend and parry against their attacks. When you do face opponents head-on, the primary combat of Sekiro takes on a clashing-of-swords dueling mentality. It’s not all jumping, all the time, but players will need to think vertically most of the time.
You’ll leap over powerful attacks or use your aerial advantage to land hits on bad guys. Moving strategically will be an important way to scope out enemies and thin out their numbers ahead of direct combat, giving you a better chance at victory. Jumping is actually a key part of the game, as FromSoftware explained during the demo. Moving strategically will be an important way to scope out enemies and thin out their numbers.
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