How do we fix nu-From's soullessness?

Name one (1) moment from Sekiro with as much soul as this.

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Sekiro is the most soulful game ever made by FromSoftware

DS3 had tons of soul. You're just too much of a small-soulled bugman to recognize it.

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>DS3 had tons of soul.

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Isshin intro.

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Nah sekiro is definitely soulful. In fact, all the new IPs are soulful. That should tell enough, sequels suck.

2 > 3 > 1

Isshin steeping out of Genichiro

spbp

Divine Dragon

You never feel like the boss has any enmity for you

How could I forget that Maiden Astraea was in Sekiro?

>the final game in a trilogy has some callbacks so its soulless
I dont understand you people. Its like you took the redlettermedia meme of "I SAW SOMETHING I RECOGNIZED AND I CLAPPED" and just reversed it so hard to the point where you are almost just as obnoxious as those people.

It's a contrived reference that doesn't make the game better in any way. If you can't see that DS3 is soulless, then there's no hope for you.

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>giving a shit about what Yea Forums or Yea Forums thinks

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>point of the game is that reality has reached a breaking point
>reigniting the embers time and time again has created this abomination where different time-lines mix into a giant mess, the epitome of which is the ringed city

You might not like it but there is nothing contrived about the references

Keep telling yourself that.

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>It's a contrived reference that doesn't make the game better in any way.
It doesn't make the game worst either.
There's a middle ground between refusing the aknowledge the previous games in the series and constant nostalgia pandering like Pokemon and Dark souls 3 is a good exemple.

>Ringed city is literally reality collapsing in on itself
I'm sorry the obvious remains a mystery to you

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>everyone gives Andre shit
>but nobody talks about the old lady from DS2 returning

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>It doesn't make the game worst either.
It does because the game fails to stand on its own merits.

Bloodborne > Sekiro > the rest

Bloodborne only beats Sekiro by having an amazing setting and atmosphere, as far as gameplay and challenge is concerned Sekiro is the superior, but Bloodborne just edges out from the extra work they put into it's presentation. Demon and Dark Souls need to let go of their nostalgia

In DS2 they say there was once a fourth sister but she disappeared

>It does because the game fails to stand on its own merits.
In what regards ?

Literally never even noticed this.

>soul
By this retarded logic you might as well call everything except the first game in a franchise soulless. Also, Sekiro has tons of memorable moments, bosses and setpieces.

Gameplay, lore, presentation, etc.

Describe "soul", OP.

Genichiro (when he goes Way of Tomoe and shows off his Mortal Blade)
Literally everything about both Isshin fights.
Divine Dragon
Both Owl fights (definitely phase two of the second fight, the start of the first fight, or the first time you get Mikiri Countered by him)
Getting to Fountainhead through rope boy

the 4th sister is the one from the opening prologue which would mean the Handmaid is also her

>It's a contrived reference
So Dark Souls 1 is also full of those "contrived references" and you didn't bitch then.

Nice buzzwords, care to explain more ?

Demon's SOULs 2

Well I mean, there’s no Soul in Sekiro’s title and I don’t think there’s any soul items in the game

It's a sequel so gameplay, lore, and presentation are all mainly the same from Dark Souls 1 and 2. The only difference is since Bloodborne, Dark Souls 3 adopted a "longer, taller, lankier" aesthetic to character and building designs.

Some examples of soul:
>The fight with Maiden Astraea
>Crossing the fog gate and seeing Gwyn for the first time, with the music
>Ludwig regaining his humanity and wielding the MLGS
>Arriving at Fountainhead Palace for the first time

DS3's gameplay is a bad version of Bloodborne stapled to a bad version of Dark Souls, not to mention the FFXIII tier world design.

You got me there, bro.

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2 of those things are objectively better in DS3 than in any other Souls game.
Lorefaggotry is and always will be dumb.

Sekiro felt even more half finished than their previous games. In fact it felt like two different games got forced together and they didn't have the time to make it more cohesive. So many bizarre design decisions that went nowhere that that's the only thing I could think would have happened.

"Soul", in relation to From games, is a quality that varies massively when we compare player to player experience.

Now, please, follow me here,

Player 1, is a person who has not yet played a Souls-like game, and thus, has no real experience with the familiar mechanics or themes beyond that of which he's seen briefly through extraneous marketing media. This player will be enraptured by whichever game he should choose of the six, Demons Souls-esque From Software games. And at the end of their journey, player 1 will boast of its enrapturing atmosphere, and more importantly, its "Soul".

Now, Player 2, on the other hand, has played four or perhaps even five of the releases, a journeyed soulsman, if you will, and thus, has developed a fine taste for a particular and very narrow set of qualities. The "soul" of games. The soul of which he now pines strongly for, longing for that ephemeral sweetness of his first souls game. This player will stride through any new Souls-esque release with a familiar ease and, to their inevitable displeasure, an effortless grace.

This player will be miserable, and downtrodden at the end of their experience, and will eventually decry the release in their feverish madness as "Soulless", usually followed by a successive denigrating piece of terminology; "Garbage", "Trash", "Shit".

So, to conclude we can observe a unique phenomenon:

Wherein:

"Soul", decreases, as "Souls", increases.

Yes, yes indeed. How very peculiar and harrowing an observation.

cringe

let B team make the next game, as clearly the last souls game to have soul was dark souls 2

Dark Souls 3's gameplay is Dark Souls 1 except enemies are faster, you're faster, and you're given more stamina to deal with longer combo attacks.
This is immediately apparent to anyone who plays the games instead of following youtube critics and parroting their uneducated remarks.
>not to mention the FFXIII tier world design.
Dark Souls 3 is nowhere near FF13 tier linear. The only "linear" thing about the games is what order you tackle the levels in.

Here's a hottake for you: sequence breaking is neither mandatory nor good.

If you can't deal with having to progress through the game normally, that's YOUR problem, not a fault of the game.

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