>>712923562
You're describing parry like it's a Sekiro parry.

NG's parry mechanics work more like dark souls where you're committing to a full animation and it has startup before the parry becomes active and then in NG on success it gave you a unique attack and each weapon had two different counters with different attacks. This is how most parries worked until sekiro made developers think no startup parries with THIRTY fucking frames of active frames was somehow more "skillful" so everyone started copying it.
3RE added the cicada surge ability which let you cancel any attack into it, which would not stun enemies or do an attack but simply teleport you behind them and this was really good, importantly it cost a special resource to use so spamming it mindlessly would prevent you from using your ninpo (which is also needed to heal) so while the parry was "instant" it didn't give an immediate big benefit and it had weight behind being tight to such an important resource.

Ultimately the point is that NG already had it right. Counters + cicada surge are fun and add a lot to the game and are especially unique compared to todays landscape. They took that way because platinum are retarded faggots