Since the soulslike community is quite diverse, I can imagine many different opinions to emerge here. Curious to hear your thoughts!
I’d take Sekiro 2 any day of the week. Bloodborne 2 would be amazing, but Sekiro, to me, is the pinnacle of the genre and has so much untapped potential that’s laying dormant. Bloodborne is too similar to your “standard” soulslike compared to Sekiro, even though I love Bloodborne as well.
Haven’t played demon souls. Didn’t love elden ring. Of the remaining DS3 is my favorite but part of that i think is just because it’s the most familiar. Sekiro and bloodborne i loved as well. If i had to choose i think bloodborne 2 because id love to see more of that story the most alongside new atrocities, and i really loved the layers of exploration/shortcut it brought.
I’m curious, when you say sekiro has so much untapped potential, does anything in particular come to mind?
I was specifically referring to the gameplay. The base premise of parry-based combat has been received quite well and has been adopted into many soulslikes after it like Khazan, Lies of P or even that one class in Nightreign. It’s perfect the way it is, I feel like, but Khazan showed that it can be expanded upon. I’d not be surprised if From cooked something up that builds off the very good base.
Apart from that, similarly to Bloodborne, the world allows for more story to be told. Be it a prequel or a follow-up to the true ending - there’s potential there. Since the game is relatively grounded in reality and Japanese history, you could argue there’s less to expand into compared to the Eldritch horrors of Bloodborne, but there’s probably more. Not an expert though, can’t articulate what exactly I’d like to see outside the two possibilities I’ve outlined further up