A new game with stealth and action elements has just been released for the Xbox One, Playstation 4, and PC and it’s name is Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. Sekiro is a fun yet challenging new game title set in Sengoku era Japan made by FromSoftware, the company behind the popular Dark Souls game series. Don’t think that this is just another Dark Souls game like Bloodborne was, this game has enough familiar aspects to peak your interest but many more new and unique game mechanics and details about the game will make you want to stay.

Unlike in Dark Souls players aren’t just a nameless soldier with no past going through the world, you are set character in the world, your character has a past and has connections to people already. The main character is named Sekiro, which means One-Armed-Wolf, he is a shinobi assigned the job of protecting a boy named Kuro Hirata who is an heir to an ancient bloodline. A shinobi was a type of covert agent or mercenary in feudal Japan, tasked with jobs stealth in nature. The game’s story revolves around Kuro Hirata being taken by an enemy general who wants to use Kuro’s bloodline to help win an imminent war and players have to find Kuro and bring him to safety. There a four endings to get depending on choices you make in the game.

While it is similar to Dark Souls in some aspects, the way you play the game is completely different from what players may be familiar with. Dark Souls is a game that rewards playing defensively, hiding behind a shield could save your life. But in Sekiro players don’t get a shield, instead, you have to play smart and stealthily to defeat enemies. The leveling system is also different from Dark Souls, and the difference is that there is no level system, players don’t have a level and they don’t level up. Instead, players raise their health from defeating multiple mini-bosses, they raise attack power from defeating the bigger bosses, and they earn skill points to get different skills and abilities instead of getting souls or experience points to get levels and raise their stats.

Sekiro is a fresh experience for fans of the Dark Souls series as well as people looking to get into the genre. It will be difficult to get the hang of the controls and game mechanics but once you do it is definitely worth playing. Nothing can beat the satisfaction of having defeated a boss that has defeated you time and time again, but if you stick with it and don’t give up trying then there will be plenty of that satisfactory feeling in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.