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Honestly no other game has managed to make both the parrying and the dodging feel great.
Finished lies of P and just couldn’t stand how the parry window and the animations align. They seemingly can’t telegraph a normal swing. Every attack swing has a weird delay and timing in some combos. Can parry most of them just not every attack in a combo. It’s not even doge catches just the default animations are bizarre. And I know it’s not TV input lag because I have absolutely no issues with nailing every parry in Sekiro or playing Hi-Fi Rush with an S rank.
Still would prefer to fight two of these ogres over some of the hidden warriors later in the game 🤦♂️
Yea I know what you mean. Romeo's combo, for example, is notoriously hard to parry for many players and even after several playthroughs, I still struggle with it and usually have to just run away from it. In comparison, I can rather easily defeat Isshin without getting hit once :s
I still like the parries in LoP for the most part, specifically Green Swamp Monster and Laxasia are quite fun to fight with the parries, but I get what you mean. It's always felt a little tighter and less forgiving than Sekiro
I eventually got a pretty good feel for Lies of P and felt like it was a really good middle ground between Sekiro and Dark Souls 3. It felt weird at first but I think the jerky animations are part of the movement for the puppets and that jerky movement gets weirdly readable.