I felt that way for a while. Stay on the outskirts and bait his thrust attacks. Pair that with oil and fire and you'll get him.
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Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice |OT2| Domo Arigato, Mr. ROBERTOOOOO!!!
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That's how I like to fight him too, just sword on sword action. Feels amazing.
I mean... I wouldn't complain. :P
It is so damn hard though. Took me 50+ tries... but it is amazing and felt so good beating..
Rad, thanks for the responses everyone.
Ended up leaving Owl for another run and ended up steamrolling through everything up to Ishiin. Demon of Hatred was a long fight but managed it first try. I feel like I've sequence broken the game because even Ishiin feels fairly easy after a few attempts not to mention the Dragon battle was over before it even began.
Lol this is me. I have DMC5 and RE2 to finish on deck but I'm watching Sekiro speedruns on Twitch.
If a scrub like myself can get past it than any casual souls fan can do it. It just took studying his moves so that i can make way into his next phase and start studying those moves over. I inched my way through each time and with each death got me just a little closer. Much like most of the bosses leading up to this, theres no trick. Watch my video i posted if you dont mind spoilers. I attacked and defended with no tools. I still feel like parrys are the fastest way to bring down his posture.
After about two to three rounds of paying for info, I killed the peddler. Did I mess my run up? Should I just restart? I'm currently working through the 3 year flashback.
Why would you do that lol
You aren't "fucked", but you are missing out on a fairly useful, but non-essential merchant. Since you are so early, restarting could be an option, if you don't mind it, but I'd just suck it up and continue playing.
Let me introduce you to a little game that dropped on Xbox BC last week (even if you've played it before)
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I had thought of that after just seeing some of the initial trailers for this game and also during the final boss fight where he'll sometimes run alongside you while looking at you - that immediately reminded me of the blind Samurai fight scene from Ninja Scroll.
I would love a fast-paced Samurai duel in a bamboo forest ala Ninja Scroll.
Like, I would adore it!!
Oh boy. Finished NG+ and wondered how many skill points I need to get everything. Still need another 31...
Where's the best place to grind skill points late game? Want to know this so I can work out whether to go to NG+2 or hangaround in NG+ for a bit longer.
Where's the best place to grind skill points late game? Want to know this so I can work out whether to go to NG+2 or hangaround in NG+ for a bit longer.
I finished up most of the trophies last night, with the only one left being the skill grind crap. I went back to asscreed odyssey and holy fuck, not a good idea. The combat is so clumsy and I died really easily, it was pathetic on my end :P
This might be a weird suggestion, but did you played any MH game? Not that they are really similar, but both games are about mastering your enemies and their movesets. MH is definetly a slower more methodical game, but after playing Sekiro I went back to MH and for now is working as a substitute lol.
The Ogre stairway idol on Ashina Outskirts seems the best run for end-game xp farming.
Same here. It all but killed my hype for Days Gone and I was super-hyped for it before I played Sekiro.
I've been giving that a go and the ministry enemies seem to net between 1100-2500 XP per kill depending on which type they are. You can do a run all the way to the bridge in 1-2 minutes which is decent. Sounds like that's what you're talking about so I think I'll stick to that then, thanks!
The grind will be boring and time consuming no matter what you do. Depending on your abilities, you could get all skills grinding in endgame NG+ before the time you would make it through NG++.
Outskirts Stairs is mentioned a lot and I even used it for a bit, but I've also seen others mention the Castle Antechamber, which ended up being my primary XP grinding spot. Backstab the purple ninja, rest, repeat. In NG+, that's roughly 2100XP every 10-15 seconds. I read a thread somewhere where someone mentioned that the Outskirts stairs ended up being less per minute despite more enemies due to the loading screen for homeward idol or something. Antechamber also provides less room to screw up.
That's cuz you're playing the wrong games bruh.
You need to play character action games to scratch that itch.
Get on some DMC5, God Hand, Bayonetta 1, Metal Gear Rising, Ninja Gaiden etc.
Metal Gear Rising in particular is the game that Sekiro borrows from heavily for its combat. The stealth is similar too.
I don't reload of Outskirts farming run just run back (console, so even slower loading times) - the last enemy I kill is a drop on the guy where the headless sign is, so I make a loop. The purple ninja in Anti-chamber is defintely more xp per minute, but I stick to the stairs because there's also a little bit of combat involved. Running in circles killing one enemy would drive me mad.
I've also used the few enemies around the broken bridge idol in FHP - grapple up, drop down on the spear guy, take out the 2 beard-octo-wizards on way back to idol. Not much better than the Anti-chamber grind though.
I've also used the few enemies around the broken bridge idol in FHP - grapple up, drop down on the spear guy, take out the 2 beard-octo-wizards on way back to idol. Not much better than the Anti-chamber grind though.
I wish I liked this more. I like the setting. It just doesn't feel good to control. The character has no weight, jumping and clinging to ledges is finicky. Lock ons are unreliable, the camera is troublesome.
It's not LB and there is a different way shorter path you take the second time there.
Anti-chamber is about 8200XP per minute if you sprint to deathblow the ninja. Though for the sake of not going insane I like switching it up here and there.
Common side effect produced by playing FromSoft games.
May I suggest Nioh as a temporary cure.
Common side effect produced by playing FromSoft games.
May I suggest Nioh as a temporary cure.
I know as I did the other endings, but do I need to do Hirata Estate at all in the second playthrough for Return ending?
I'm very ashamed to admit that after getting to O'rin in NG+ and dying to what I felt was some cheap ass shit, I ragequit by shutting the PS4 off without menu-quitting, and came back to a corrupted save. The bad news is that I turned off auto-uploading saves to the cloud in order to save scum all the endings, and never turned it back on, meaning my most recent recoverable save was at the end of NG.
I gave it a day, loaded it back up, and I'm back into NG+. No ragequitting, though I'm not excited to fight O'rin again. Fuck that goddamn fight. More annoying than DOH or any of the last boss' phases in my opinion.
That said, I'm still enjoying my NG+ run. Skipping minibosses I don't care about, but hitting all the big bosses. Can't wait to fight
and DOH again. And the last fight.
Did the patch that just came out change anything noticeable or was it just bug fixes?
I gave it a day, loaded it back up, and I'm back into NG+. No ragequitting, though I'm not excited to fight O'rin again. Fuck that goddamn fight. More annoying than DOH or any of the last boss' phases in my opinion.
That said, I'm still enjoying my NG+ run. Skipping minibosses I don't care about, but hitting all the big bosses. Can't wait to fight
Owl (father)
Did the patch that just came out change anything noticeable or was it just bug fixes?
I'm about to face
I beat him on my first time through the game, but with the new patch, anyone have anything that might prove useful against him this time?
Guardian Ape.
The Sabimaru destroys O'Rin. Not only does it poison it super quickly, it also stuns her temporarily. Also, confetti.
Yup. I usually have to take a week or two off after finishing a Souls game to get in the mood to play anything else.
Run up to her and attack (instead of talking), you'll get a red deathblow prompt just for a split second. Take that one free deathblow lol.
Finally got all the combat arts. Still never intend to equip anything but Ichimonji Double. :|
Now to get the rest of whatever trophies are left. It feels like a really long platinum run, but I don't think I've ever gone for all trophies on a first run before so that's made it feel like forever.
Now to get the rest of whatever trophies are left. It feels like a really long platinum run, but I don't think I've ever gone for all trophies on a first run before so that's made it feel like forever.
If you want a brain numbing one, do the upper floor in the ashina castle. not kuros room. The one that you jump through window to get too. in the final act theres one of those purple ninjas behind the screen doors at the top of the small stairs. run up around the back of the screen doors and assassinate, run back tot he idol and rinse and repeat. its pretty mind numbing but its sure to get you a lot of XP.
Not terribly. It's not an essential NPC but there's a minor questline related to that NPC. He's also the only one who sells a specific tool, but you can buy this tool via the chest in Dilapidated Temple albeit at a higher price.
It was ~90MB on Steam at least.
I uninstalled the game in an attempt to try other games...
Now I'm here doing HUDless runs lol
Correct. You'll have to get to the stuff beyond Shura twice to get enough LL to fully upgrade all of your prosthetics. Maybe even three times depending on how many you got your first time through (if you got at least 4 on NG, you're good).
You're playing on PS4? Go for the 3 other endings. Save after final boss. Get ending 1-3. Start ng+ and save before O. Go for Shura ending. Reload. Get 4 Lapis. Win.
I'm on PC but yeah that sounds like a good way to do it and get all the achievements without having to replay the entire game
Correct. Shura ending locks you out of the final area which has Lapis Lazuli. You need 10 total for prosthetic upgrades, but each NG cycle only provides 6. With save scumming, you can get all achievements in at least two playthroughs.
Also, there are good videos that show how to get fulminated mercury quickly and relatively fast skill point farming, the latter of which was the biggest chore of them all.
I couldn't imagine going from sekiro to DMC5. I'm glad it was the other way around for me. I think I died like 3 times on the hardest difficulty it let me select. Its was Kh3 levels of easy.
Okay on my first play through and got to the first consequential decision point
My question is about getting multiple endings
I went against Father Owl and now am on that boss fight
My question is about getting multiple endings
I assume if I want to get all 4 endings I would need to preserve the save just prior to that decision. But what about if say I wanted to do just two playthroughs for 4 endings - what are the save points I would need to preserve to get the two endings associated with siding with and against owl father