Here’s your first look at raw Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice gameplay

We’ve been dying, dying, and dying some more to catch a glimpse of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice gameplay since it revealed at E3 2018, and now, courtesy of the Gamescom 2018 IGN Live stream, we have that first reel of gameplay. As expected, it’s beautiful, gory, and brutal all at once. The gameplay reveal shows everything from stealthing through foliage and sticking to walls to evade detection, to the resurrection mechanic that allows you to spring back to life immediately after dying. If you die, you can revive, but you can’t revive again until you defeat another enemy, which is similar to Bloodborne’s regain system. As for stealth, we can see the main character tucking into a wall to stay hidden, then grab an enemy as they round the corner, and finally execute them with a finisher the developers call a Shinobi Death Blow. One other highly anticipated part of the game on show is the grapple hook, and in the short demo we see that player seamlessly shifting between rooftops and the ground, violently dispatching enemies along the way.