>>223091>Sekiro had long travels to get to bossesshow me
Boss 1: Planned loss fight
Boss 2: 3 grapples, takes like 10 seconds to get there (oniwa)
Boss 3: Lady Butterfly, idol right in front of the boss room with one inept guard there to give you your extra resurrect back
Boss 4: Genichiro, run past an enemy out the window, grapple to roof. fight.
Boss 5: Folding Screen monkeys. Do I even have to? it's a puzzle and you can get there immediately.
Boss 6: Guardian Ape, jump down into his arena from the idol immediately.
Boss 7: Corrupted Monk, run past O'Rin's arena, across the bridge, grapple and hug left side past enemies (if you skip her you can argue there's a small run) (small argument for a tiny runback here)
Boss 8: Emma/Isshin Ashina, same as Genichiro, right out the window grapple up and talk to Father, begin.
Boss 9: Great Shinobi Owl, same as above.
Boss 10: True Corrupted Monk, Idol's right in front of the arena.
Boss 11: Divine Dragon, another idol near the arena teleport, 7 second run.
Boss 12: Owl Father, same as Lady Butterfly.
Boss 13: Demon of Hatred, idol's literally in the arena
Boss 14: Isshin the Sword Saint, Idol's in front of the arena, maybe another 7 second run
Inner Boss variants are only in the Gauntlet runs.
Please show me a long runback in Sekiro because I don't see a single one outside of 'maybe' False Corrupted Monk (if you skip O'rin of the Ocean Man)
>grinding shit like sen/xp to level before a bossthat's leveling up and you can make the argument that some of these games are too linear since you can't skip bosses and explore like Elden Ring so this is a fair point and I agree with you.
>Same with grinding the confetti to kill apparitionsThis is a fair argument, I never needed the divine confetti for these fights but yes, you are completely correct here as you do have to farm/buy this item and I didn't use it a ton until late game so I'm not sure how tedious it is, but again this is a good point.
>>223093I'm not saying it's "worse" in bloodborne, I'm just criticizing the mechanics in general. I already criticized it for Dark Souls 1-3. Main reason I'm not playing BB is due to loading screens and frame rate dude.