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A Chinese media site has uploaded footage of Sekiro's secret demo boss

theotherMittens

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Not even sure if it's a leak or not, but it starts a little after three minutes into the first video here:

https://www.g-cores.com/videos/102336

Super spooky.

A few notes for anyone who doesn't want to watch, perhaps mildly spoilerish:

It has one health diamond.

Its sword attacks are very slow and very heavily telegraphed, but they almost kill the player in one hit.

In contrast, its grab attack is barely telegraphed at all.

It teleports very quickly. I'm not sure it even disappears entirely before appearing in another spot.

There's a ledge in the room it can't drop down, but it CAN teleport to get to the player.

Music and arena are very atmospheric. The boss makes the creepiest sounds.

And adding this in case anyone has trouble with the link:

KyleRipman said:
Anyone else having trouble with the link, try this: https://www.bilibili.com/video/av32236168/?p=2

I'm glad to see such creepy stuff in this
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Ferrs

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oh my... guess we don't have to worry about Sekiro lacking creepy shit.
 
FusedAtoms

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Damn that's real creepy looking , the verticality on display in the levels is really impressive though
 
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Wow. Never heard of this before. Looks like a more bad ass version of Way of the Samurai that I played on PS2 when I was was a teenager back in the day.
 
Cow Mengde

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I don't know what game this is, but I like how you can stab a guy in the back, and still can get back up to fight like nothing's happened.
 
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Slick Butter

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Wow. Sekiro looks friggin amazing. The very first trailer didn't convince me, but now I'm thinking this'll be From Software's best game by far.
Can't wait to play it.

I can forgive the lack of online functionality because this looks top-tier, however it does seem a little disappointing that we will be unable to use this new more complex combat against other players. Well, that would require decent online anyway, which none of the Souls games really had.
 
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The best thing about this is we now have the new equivalent of "Prey Slaughtered"/"Victory Achieved"/etc.
 
CenturionNami

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Why we're people worried there was going to be no horror elements that's fucking horrifying!
 
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the game needs more polish in the locomotion of the main character, its way off to the point its almost seems like a bug the way you can slide with almost no walking/running animation.
 
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theotherMittens

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Aters said:
This was not recorded at TGS, it was a different event.
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Oh thanks, I had sort of assumed it was TGS.

Somehow I only just now thought to actually translate and read the article. Technology sometimes, ain't it a thing. I always forget what it can do. So now I see they mentioned an embargo for this video thar just ended.
 
DukeBlue

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It's sooo good to see that From continues to deliver talenT!

Will be rhe 2019 GOTY without a doubt
 
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I watched the first 10-15 seconds of that encounter.. holy fuck that looks amazing.

I think my Sekiro media black out (much like any Souls entry) begins now.
 
CenturionNami

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So, the second death has the person dying to a new status effect, terror. And Status effects confirmed! Game is Souls like.
 
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In a way, we're seeing a role reversal, with FROM focusing on more action-based title, and Team Ninja going the route of an RPG. The endgame of Nioh was very RPG in fact, almost behaving like Diablo at times.
 
Run Goku

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The enemy design of this particular creature is fairly simple but brilliantly horrifying.
 
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The ambient music and the sound effect every time the enemy attacks makes it more creepy
 
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theotherMittens

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KyleRipman said:
The enemy design of this particular creature is fairly simple but brilliantly horrifying.
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It's really funny, because I couldnt quite imagine it being that scary just from descriptions I'd read. So much of it is in the animations and real specific stuff about the model and textures. It's so blubbery and slippery looking. Words don't do this one justice.
 
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theotherMittens said:
It's really funny, because I couldnt quite imagine it being that scary just from descriptions I'd read. So much of it is in the animations and real specific stuff about the model and textures. It's so blubbery and slippery looking. Words don't do this one justice.
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The animation where it puts its shoulders down and charges, with that stringy hair or whatever it is, is really unsettling in particular. Good stuff, hope there's a lot more where that came from.
 
GameShrink

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This is probably my favorite thing shown thus far. Unlike the Yokai in Nioh, which were the "cool" side of Japanese mythology, Sekiro seems to be hiding the truly macabre elements of folklore under its surface. The fact that the monster doesn't fully disappear from its original position after teleporting is such a clever and creepy trick, FromSoft is still operating at their peak.

What I'm still NOT sold on is the lack of RPG progression being a good idea. Unless the reward for killing this thing is really impressive, what incentive exists for fighting it? In Souls, I could count on gaining a few levels and earning rare upgrade materials from killing minibosses. Here, I'm not sure what we're gaining by fighting when running past foes seems just as effective as ever and preserves your resources.
 
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GameShrink said:
This is probably my favorite thing shown thus far. Unlike the Yokai in Nioh, which were the "cool" side of Japanese mythology, Sekiro seems to be hiding the truly macabre elements of folklore under its surface. The fact that the monster doesn't fully disappear from its original position after teleporting is such a clever and creepy trick, FromSoft is still operating at their peak.

What I'm still NOT sold on is the lack of RPG progression being a good idea. Unless the reward for killing this thing is really impressive, what incentive exists for fighting it? In Souls, I could count on gaining a few levels and earning rare upgrade materials from killing minibosses. Here, I'm not sure what we're gaining by fighting when running past foes seems just as effective as ever and preserves your resources.
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It's probably that you get something cool for beating it. The game does have progression through upgrading weapons and prosthetic weapons, so there's a few rewards I could see coming from it.
 
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theotherMittens said:
It's probably that you get something cool for beating it. The game does have progression through upgrading weapons and prosthetic weapons, so there's a few rewards I could see coming from it.
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If the weapons have the depth of character upgrade in previous games, then that'd be fine, but simply obtaining a new move or rare consumable item would be disappointing.

The reward of optional challenges in Souls was always the promise that conquering them would make the required content a bit easier. "Do I want to fight Father Gascoigne immediately, or level up a few times by killing Cleric Beast first and explore the level to find new armor?"

In Sekiro, my fear is that it'll be: "Whether I kill the minibosses and explore the level or not, Corrupted Monk is always going to be the same difficulty." I hope From will address this soon, because it's my biggest concern about the game moving forward.
 
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The reaching and flailing is pretty disconcerting.

Also, that player is pretty bad.
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There is a wall jump in the game but idk if you need to unlock it first. It could be that you need to press jump twice to kick off the wall and clear the height but the player might be pressing jump once and hoping to auto grab the ledge. I agree, that part was troubling/annoying to watch but I hope it's just player error and not the game.
 
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I like how they are not hiding Sekiro has a creepy twist in it like Bloodborne. They could have acted like it was a realistic Samurai game like Ghost of Tsushima until it actually released, then BAM, creepy demon boss.
 
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Igniz12 said:
There is a wall jump in the game but idk if you need to unlock it first. It could be that you need to press jump twice to kick off the wall and clear the height but the player might be pressing jump once and hoping to auto grab the ledge. I agree, that part was troubling/annoying to watch but I hope it's just player error and not the game.
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Other demo players have said you can jump up walls right at the start. Can't recall if he does it elsewhere in this video but you can see it plenty of times in others, clearing walls with a similar height.
 
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