The combat is amazing. The game in Grandmaster difficulty is brutal but rewarding. Enemies kill you with few hits but you kill them with few hits also so the enemies are not sponges on a harder difficulty. You have to be precise, as you have to parry and attack accordingly. The game makes you learn the parry timings because if you don't your stamina will break with only a few hits. The Grandmaster difficulty's parries have similar timings to those of Sekiro.