Geek Aloud’s #LetsInstall of #Sekiro #ShadowsDieTwice #GOTY. This install was from a physical copy of the game onto an Xbox Series X. Internet connection speed is 900MB/s down, 40MB/s up.
From the Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sekiro:_Shadows_Die_Twice):
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice[a] is a 2019 action-adventure game developed by FromSoftware and published by Activision. The game follows a shinobi known as Wolf as he attempts to take revenge on a samurai clan who attacked him and kidnapped his lord. It was released for Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One in March 2019 and for Stadia in October 2020.
Gameplay is focused on stealth, exploration, and combat, with a particular emphasis on boss battles. The game takes place in a fictionalized Japan during the Sengoku period and makes strong references to Buddhist mythology and philosophy. While making the game, lead director Hidetaka Miyazaki wanted to create a new intellectual property (IP) that marked a departure from the Souls series of games also made by FromSoftware. The developers looked to games such as The Mysterious Murasame Castle and the Tenchu series for inspiration.
Sekiro was praised by critics, who complimented its gameplay and setting, and compared it to the Souls games, although opinions on its difficulty were mixed. It was nominated for various awards and won several, including The Game Award for Game of the Year. The game sold over five million copies by July 2020.
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is an action-adventure game played from a third-person view.[1][2][3][4] Compared to FromSoftware’s Souls series, the game features fewer role-playing elements, lacking character creation and the ability to level up a variety of stats, as well as having no multiplayer elements.[3][4][5][6] It does, however, include gear upgrading, a skill tree, and limited ability customization. Rather than attacking to whittle an enemy’s health points, combat in Sekiro revolves around using a katana to attack their posture and balance instead, which eventually leads to an opening that allows for a single killing blow.[3][7]
The game also features stealth elements, allowing players to instantly eliminate some enemies if they can get in range undetected.[3] In addition, the player character can use various tools to assist with combat and exploration, such as a grappling hook.[3] If the player character dies, they have the option of being revived on the spot if they have resurrection power, which is restored by defeating enemies, instead of respawning at earlier checkpoints.[3]
Following the Sengoku period, Isshin Ashina seized control of the land of Ashina.[1] During this time, a nameless orphan is adopted by the wandering shinobi known as “Owl”, who named the boy “Wolf”, and trained him in the ways of the shinobi. Two decades later, Ashina is on the brink of collapse due to the now elderly Isshin falling ill and the Interior Ministry, a group set on unifying Japan, steadily closing in. Desperate to save his clan, Isshin’s adoptive grandson Genichiro seeks the immortal “Divine Heir” Kuro in hopes of using the “Dragon Heritage” in his blood to create an immortal army. Wolf, now a full-fledged shinobi and Kuro’s personal bodyguard, fights Genichiro but loses the duel along with his left arm while Genichiro takes the boy. However, being immortal himself, Wolf survives and is found by a retired shinobi known as the “Sculpter”, who nurses him back to health and gifts him a Shinobi Prosthetic.[3][8][9]
To rescue Kuro, Wolf assaults Ashina Castle whilst being forced to confront his own past: three years ago, Kuro’s birthplace, the Hirata estate, was raided by bandits led by Wolf’s former teacher, Lady Butterfly, who was attempting to kidnap Kuro. While Wolf was able to defeat her, he was then stabbed in the back by an unknown assailant but survived thanks to Kuro making him immortal through the Dragon’s Heritage. Back in the present, Wolf once again confronts Genichiro and this time, defeats him. However, Genichiro survives by drinking an artificial replication of the Dragon Heritage known as the “Rejuvenating Waters”, and flees. Kuro then asks Wolf to perform the “Immortal Severance” ritual, which would result in Kuro’s death and prevent anyone from fighting over his immortality. Wolf reluctantly agrees to help and sets out to collect the necessary materials for the ritual. Wolf’s quest also leads him to cross paths with Isshin, who gives him a new name: “Sekiro”, the “one-armed wolf”.
After collecting all the components for the ritual, Sekiro is confronted by Owl, who was thought to have been killed during the raid on Hirata and revealed to be the one who back-stabbed Sekiro back then.
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Sekiro always crashes on my xsx.😩