Fantasia Review: Sekiro brings bloody action (and haphazard storytelling) to the big screen in No Defeat
As superhero movies seem to be on the decline, a new source of IP is being more aggressively tapped: video games. With the recent success of movies based on Super Mario, Minecraft, and Five Nights at Freddy's , along with TV hits like Fallout and The Last of Us , the video game boom is perhaps only just getting started. It seems like a healthier source for stories, since there's naturally a wider variety of stories to tell, whereas superhero movies all end up feeling kind of the same: world-threatening being, superhero team-up destruction, bing bang boom. Playing at Fantasia this year is a new anime film, Sekiro: No Defeat , which is based on the popular 2019 game Sekiro: Shadows Never Die . It's a game I haven't played, because I'm pretty sure it would be too hard for me. It's one of those timing-intensive action games that require precision and patience, both of which I have but probably not enough to make it through. (I played Elden Ring from the same develo...
