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Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice |OT| Prepare to 死
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Finished the game for the first time.
Overall Sekiro was a fantastic experience, loved every second of it and I'm planning to fight all the bosses I missed, get all the endings and start NG+ next.
Hats off to you From, truely a masterpiece!
Demon of Hatred really made me rage a bit, super hard and very different from the usual bosses that far.
Isshin on the otherhand, what a god damn great fight, took a while but had a fantastic time
Isshin on the otherhand, what a god damn great fight, took a while but had a fantastic time
Overall Sekiro was a fantastic experience, loved every second of it and I'm planning to fight all the bosses I missed, get all the endings and start NG+ next.
Hats off to you From, truely a masterpiece!
I feel like once you "get" the combat, then this game will feel about as difficult as any other Souls game.
For the people that are struggling with the parrying, Instead of always trying to do dead on accurate parries, do some rhythmic taping instead. The parry window is actually pretty generous, so you're likely to nail more counters that way. Most enemies follow up with several consecutive strikes anyway, so its to your benefit in the end.
For the people that are struggling with the parrying, Instead of always trying to do dead on accurate parries, do some rhythmic taping instead. The parry window is actually pretty generous, so you're likely to nail more counters that way. Most enemies follow up with several consecutive strikes anyway, so its to your benefit in the end.
One of the final areas cemented this game as the best level design of all FROMs games. It's magnificent.
for me it is the best one, everything flows so good in this game
only thing which maybe could be better is the enemy recycling, there are a few that come more than once but i guess it fits the "die twice" moniker...
You should have used the Malcontent upgrade for the whistle on the Demon of Hatred. It really helps with a couple of life bars.
Beat the game just a little while ago. Well on my way to platinum trophy and will definitely finish it.
Boy does it ever
Loving the game so far. I'd say my main gripe would be the insane amount of mini-bosses. You can hardly walk a few minutes without stumbling on another general or something. I know a lot of them are optional, but let's be real here: they're not really optional are they? They gotta go down. Other than that though, I think it's a top-notch game and a worthy addition to the genre. I'm not getting frustrated either, but I think it helps that I completed all Souls games and Bloodborne offline.
I will try that for sure later. This game man, I was up til 4 AM playing and of course woke up at 8 because of my work biorhythm. I took a week off for this game and when the release crept up I was starting to think I went a bit overboard there. But nope, not regretting that decision one bit seeing the game's obviously amazing. My favorite From game since DkS 1 and at this point I like it better than BB as well.
I used the Fire-resistent Umbrella and just man-moded through most stuff, after learning his patterns it was pretty easy just that the fight was long with lots of places to mess up a bit and lose like 50% of your HP
The mini-boss after
... was he supposed to be incredibly easy? Or am i gittin' gud?
the bull
That's not entirely true, they do indeed have an effect and that effect is more pronounced the higher your Vitality is, so personally my theory is that the Vitality stat itself somehow factors significantly into the formula the game uses to apply the healing skill buffs to the gourd. At the lower levels the effect is miniscule but it increases as your Vitality increases. By time you've picked up everything else I listed you would probably have leveled up vitality at least once and probably twice unless you were farming XP, at that point the healing skills do have a decent effect and it only improves from there as they stack with the other healing passives you get throughout the game.
I've somehow defeated the one armed purple swordsman guarding the pagoda legit
I was fighting him in the open area and getting my ass kicked. In the last try I instead ran into the narrow area behind the pagoda and somehow his attack pattern became more readable.
Hell, he even got be pinned against the wall and I was blind parrying by tapping furiously and swing widely and somehow I was able to get a death blow
I was fighting him in the open area and getting my ass kicked. In the last try I instead ran into the narrow area behind the pagoda and somehow his attack pattern became more readable.
Hell, he even got be pinned against the wall and I was blind parrying by tapping furiously and swing widely and somehow I was able to get a death blow
Everything was more or less fine until LB. I guess I'm doing something wrong, not feeling the rhythm of the the dance.... But I'm determined to not look up any help. I can do this!
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wasnt that bad at all. The NPC took all the heat while I was doing most of the damage.
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the drunkard
i think this is exactly the thing that elevates this game. you have a challenge in every direction and you don´t have to wait long before you encounter one.
My vitality was leveled up once when I grabbed the skills, and it was a complete waste of nine points at that stage. I'll try it again once I have another nine stocked up (14 vitality). For a third, to half of the game it's not really worth it at all.
I'd also argue too that if it is based off of your current max vitality, you would still want more than the initial 2-3 early gourds you can get to really make it worthwhile. There are a handful of much more useful skills early on besides the counter and healing from a deathblow.
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While I think your criticisms are totally reasonable, I also would disagree about people complaining about the game - the vast, vast majority of negative posts I've seen absolutely are basically insulting the game for its difficulty or just complaining about encounters/encounter design.
I don't have a problem with it. The game can be frustrating. But the majority of people are not making the reasonable criticisms you are.
That just sounds plain wrong. Don't wait for his strike to hit the parry buttom - parry when you see the twinkle. And double tap it super fast, like his strike. If that solution wasn't working for you 100% of the time then you're getting some input latency or frame pacing or something for sure.
Good to hear dodging works, anyway
I haven't seen any "illusory walls" in the format of Dark Souls, but yeah there are some awesome and super missable secret rooms and paths like that. It has its own type of "illusory wall" that's completely different to the Souls ones. I'm also pretty certain there are secret areas but I don't think I've found any.
Yeah, I beat him the old fashioned way. He only took me about five tries. The malcontent is a easy mode hack that I learned about after.
You gonna start NG+? I did today and just beat Genichiro in the castle. The difficulty step-up isn't too bad.
You gonna start NG+? I did today and just beat Genichiro in the castle. The difficulty step-up isn't too bad.
The stealth stuff seems to get better and better the more you play, as the levels open up more.
Re group combat - note that your vitality and posture go up as you progress and also your attack damage goes up a lot as you progress. By the end of the game you can pretty much walk up to a bunch of early-game goons and spam the attack button and break through them.
Well not "spam" - you'll still probably take a couple nasty strikes - but it definitely gets way easier. Your experience and skill also improves so it gets easier for sure.
I used the Suzaku Shield to protect me during flying flamey buddhas and to deflect without HP loss some attacks
You locked yourself out of an ending if you didnt give Kuro the rice before defeating the Divine Dragon
I'll just edit my original post that there's some confusion re: how much of an effect these skills have and how their buff is calculated. I do know that at the point I looked into it with a couple of my friends, the two of us who had gotten the Emma's Medicine skills had a noticeable upgrade on the amount of our heals versus the one who had dumped all his points into Combat Arts (which I thought was sort of pointless considering you can only use one at a time).
Other than the healing skills and the other skills I mentioned in that post, I don't really see what else is "essential" though, beyond maybe the skills that increase the number of Spirit Emblems you can hold. Or maybe the Ichimonji Combat Art.
Yeah, the game is basically telling you to stealth kill mini bosses because they have 2 health bars that take ages to burn down. So you may as well execute the first bar and then the fight is normal.
More health and damage from the enemies. Their posture doesn't break as easily but yours does.
I beat him with just dodging, jumping, and grappling. I saw the Malcontent whistle thing after. It hurts his ears and he holds his head in pain for, like, 15 seconds. Then you just whoop his ass while he's stunned.
Some minibosses gain 2 healthbars, like the Chained Ogre.
when I first started I was hoping to stealth kill 1 red dot off the boss go into hiding and come back and stealth him again...but the game doesn't let you do that...if you go too far away or hide then the 2nd health bar resets...literally every kill feels earned in this game...there are very few easy kills like with earlier From games...
Yeah, they do force you to fight it that way. Personally, when I switched off my Souls brain and got into ninja mode, the game starts to click but it's certainly a major shift to get use to.
I don't even really hold it against the game, it's just a preference.
I'm absolutely LOVING this game! Hard as hard nails, but I'm progressing okay and doing better than I've done in any soulsborne game.
What a year it's been for games so far RE2, Apex Legends, DMC5 and Sekiro are all strong GOTY contenders in my opinion and I'm just really enjoying games at the moment!
What a year it's been for games so far RE2, Apex Legends, DMC5 and Sekiro are all strong GOTY contenders in my opinion and I'm just really enjoying games at the moment!
if you parry him (or block him) you take damage anyway. I tested it many times. And yes I know how to parry
Your posture takes a hit if you deflect/block, not your health, no?
Anyway, as I said earlier, if you perfectly deflect his one-two strikes with a double-tap, it fills about 1/3 of his posture bar. It ruins him and is easy. Stand still and do it twice more. Bam, deathblow. Super easy.
How the fuck did you skip him? The path leads to him and I had to beat him to progress
Also, completely stuck at Drunken Jozou, its the Mobs that kill the NPC and I cant kill them all quick enough
against this particular enemy, you still take damage on block/parry because of his combat style. It's even covered in the lore
I mean this can be easily proven if anyone thinks I'm wrong
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