Why is this game apparently immune to criticism, especially when compared to the rest of the series?

Because it’s a legitimate masterpiece if you get good at it and it’s From’s best work yet. Then to top it off it’s not an exclusive which automatically makes it better.

It is a criticism when it shares so many elements but strips away so much, even if you consider them different series' but just look at them in the scope of the developers past work. If Nintendo suddenly released a new 3D platformer that was a step back from Odyssey in almost every regard, it would be rightfully compared to Odyssey and criticized for it.

It's not. But you retards always bring the same "criticism" when talking about it.

It's 10/10 and the only complaints are "it's not a different game"

Nobody asked.

same here

It's not part of any series, you drooling retard.

Literally every point you listed is objectively and factually wrong. I highly doubt you even played this game longer than 10 minutes.

As a standalone action game, what is so good about Sekiro that sets it above something like Ninja Gaiden or DMC? The combat is extremely basic.
>stop discussing video games!

Its new OP. Thats it.