I'm with you guys. While I'd love to see Bloodborne 2 or Demon's Souls 2, I'd prefer Miyazaki to start something new. It's important to bear in mind that From Software is a big-ish company, so "From's next game" isn't necessarily "Miyazaki's next game," but with Ringed City out and the DkS3 patching at a point where it can readily be handed off to underlings, it's fair to assume that Miyazaki is working on something. Might be too early for them to announce anything about it, though, since games in high concept tend to stay that way for quite a while. Offhand I'd say the next announcement from From will be about Armored Core MMCCCXLVIII.

As for Nioh, I'm curious about that too, but my dislike of Team Ninja is too great for me to be truly interested. If you try it out, xtal, report back! I will live vicariously through you.

Oh, who am I kidding. I do that already.

First and most important, I have to make a note to get that font. I'm sure it'll come in handy somewhere.

And... FROM DOING A RHYTHM TITLE? Can we get a harmonized FUCK YEEEEAAAAAHHH

LOL

The internet sometimes gives us gifts, truly it does.

I tend to agree, and setting is important. One of the strengths of Bloodborne and all the Souls games was the western setting, made by eastern designers. It resonated with me. And overall, like you Botch, I tend to be less intrigued by feudal Japan, maybe because I know very little about it overall. 

The risk Sekiro takes is that it might come off as a Souls-like, which would be weird coming from the director and team who explicitly created the Souls games. To really succeed, it needs to be its own game.

Leaving out multiplayer is going to result in a different flavor. I loved the multi elements in Souls -- less so in Bloodborne because I never had much luck getting them to work -- but this type of game doesn't need it and I'm curious what design changes they'll make to accommodate the entirely-solo playstyle.

Part of me thinks Miyazaki ought to do something significantly different, something more stridently outside the action-RPG style. Another part of me wonders why that first part of me feels that way; if action-RPGs are what Miyazaki likes to make, if they're what he's good at making, then that's what he should be doing. I read about Sekiro in Edge a while ago and it looks like they're working hard to make it something different than a Souls game, though they also understood how they're going to be shadowed (eh? eh?) by that comparison.

We'll have to wait and see. Of course this is a day one purchase for me, but will it obsess me like Dark Souls did? I don't know!