Hidetaka Miyazaki is celebrated for his spine-chilling and gory yet exciting and thrilling games. The creator is known as the father of the Souls-like games, and rightly so. After all, the games from which the genre originated were mostly his brainchild.
Miyazaki has made several games for FromSoftware, most of which are Soulslike games. However, he refuses to label one of his creations under the soulslike category.
Hidetaka Miyazaki says Sekiro is different from Soulslike games
During E3 2018, FromSoftware, the developer known for its works like Bloodborne and Dark Souls games, officially announced Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. Back then the devs noted that the new game from their hood would feature new mechanics and greatly differ from those soulslike games in ways more than one.
However, by the looks of it, several fans were of the opinion that Sekiro looked to be following the same suit as the earlier superhit action RPGs from the makers. Nonetheless, FromSoftware kept insisting that Sekiro is something completely new and separate from those.
In an interview with GameSpot back in 2018, Miyazaki himself expressed that he would not include Sekiro in the Soulsborne games. He said,
“Sekiro was not designed as an evolution of Soulsborne, of the Souls series. It was designed from the ground up, from scratch, as an entirely new concept, as a new game. So we don’t know if you’d call this an evolution of the series in this sense.”
The creator further said,
“Of course with Sekiro, we don’t intend to disappoint or turn away fans of previous From Software games, that core fan base.
Hidetaka Miyazaki also expressed the developer’s desire to keep the challenge and to keep the core experience of the titles very much intact for those people.
Is Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice a Souls-like game?
Sekiro is not entirely a Soulslike game just as Bloodborne was not a Souls game. It is a different series altogether. Similarly, Sekiro is also a different game. The first difference is that they do not have “Souls” in the title.
However, several players do consider Bloodborne as a Souls-like game because of its uncanny resemblance. This gave birth to the term “Soulsborne”. On the contrary, with Sekiro, several players believe is actually not at all a Souls game or anywhere related to the SOuls and its sub-genres. In fact many even claim that Sekiro is a Tenchu-like game, not Souls-like.
