God dammit I finally got past stage 3 of the final boss fight and nearly beat him first attempt stage, one poorly timed counter is all it takes...
Have you swam underneath past the giant carp yet? If so, you'll eventually open up a door back to the main Fountainhead area, and there are some grappling points on the right hand side once you exit that door.
How did you find it? I beat it over the weekend and once I figured out how to dodge all the attacks I loved it. Though I did technically cheese the last phase, because its new moves scared me lol.
How did you find it? I beat it over the weekend and once I figured out how to dodge all the attacks I loved it. Though I did technically cheese the last phase, because its new moves scared me lol.
Rushing attack baffled me for ages, but then looked it up and you were supposed to jump it (as the damage was from the hand running along the ground, not the thing running into me). Made it way easier after that.I liked it overall, though the camera could be a little tricky sometimes especially if he was close to a wall and the rushing attack he did was bullshit, the hitbox was probably twice his size during that attack.
Just got literally one-shotted by Isshin Ashina's fire ground move. Yep, I'm done. Wanted to get the Shura ending on NG+ but nah this is not possible for me. I haven't struggled more against any other boss. Idk if it's the NG+ effect (even though I first-tried every other boss) but this is a million times harder than Owl Father, DoH and Sword Saint for me.
And that's not even bringing Emma up. 90% of the time I don't get past her. She alone is harder than the other bosses I named that were a struggle for me. Genichiro is like fucking Pinwheel compared to her. And then Isshin Ashina's 2nd phase is the first From boss that is simply unbeatable for me.
Just got literally one-shotted by Isshin Ashina's fire ground move. Yep, I'm done. Wanted to get the Shura ending on NG+ but nah this is not possible for me. I haven't struggled more against any other boss. Idk if it's the NG+ effect (even though I first-tried every other boss) but this is a million times harder than Owl Father, DoH and Sword Saint for me.
And that's not even bringing Emma up. 90% of the time I don't get past her. She alone is harder than the other bosses I named that were a struggle for me. Genichiro is like fucking Pinwheel compared to her. And then Isshin Ashina's 2nd phase is the first From boss that is simply unbeatable for me.
Sounds like Emma gets a heck of a buff on NG+ because when I did the Shura ending (I'm save scumming endings so not doing NG+ at all) she's fairly straight forward in terms of attacks and counters. Not that she can't be dangerous if your concentration lapses, but she's definitely got nothing on Isshin. His fire stuff really kicked my ass as well for the longest time, there are tells for each of his fire moves, but on your first run he clearly doesn't deal as much damage (he never one shotted me at least)
Her fucking grab!!! It caught me out so much, I think that was more of a source of damage than any other attack of hers. It has insane range and comes out fairly quick. Her flurry of attacks though is super easy to parry and counter, I love it. I think I "mastered" her once I managed to get her throw timing down and counter attacked effectively. I know Isshin has a similar throw but the range/speed feels smaller/slower by comparison as I had less of an issue to dodge.She's a really good test of parrying and counters and seeing thrust/sweep/grab. Like Genichiro at the end, if I had to use more than 1 or 2 healing items on her then I pretty much folded and started over. She has a series of consecutive hits you want to trigger as it builds posture damage. She's pretty open to damage though and you just have to be on guard in particular for her grabs.
Got a new pc recently and the plan was to play Control first, but I couldn't resist the pull of 60 fps Sekiro and it's blisss. It feels so much better to play, it's like my time on PS4 was training with weighted clothing.
There's a mod for 120fps if you got the monitor or TV for it.
So I've been playing newgame + and turned in Kuro's Charm. I just made it past Genichiro and am headed into the Gun Fort. I don't know if I can take it anymore with the chip damage. I feel like I can make it, but it's almost as if you screw up one time and take a full on hit, that's your ass. I'm was almost thinking about ringing the Demon Bell, but after the Genichiro fight I don't know.
How much harder does it get in New Game+ after ringing the bell when you already gave away Kuro's Charm? I'm guessing there's not special item or anything that you get for raising the difficulty this high right? Just a sense of accomplishment?
I just watched a stream of someone who managed to beat Sword Saint after 14 hours. ;)So, just beat the final boss. And... he was easy? No seriously, I only died once and that was to the first phase because I was a idiot with my healing. The boss himself is absolutely one of my favourite fights ever though, here's why:
First phase is almost just a practice phase. Moves are easy to read and deflect and its over in a flash. Second phase likewise I found fairly easy half because its short and because any moves Isshin might have had that were harder to read are still etched into my mind from my Shura run. So he went down without a fuss.
Now the real fight begins. Reading the new attacks actually weren't quite as hard as I was expecting, and are easy to either counter or deflect (I found Isshin's timing in his Shura fight way harder to be honest). I did get hit, several times but was easy to heal (plus you have a nice boulder to use place between you and him to give you time and not get shot.
Last phase he has lightning, but I spent lots of time pissing around in the final area with the dragon basically honing the lightning counter to an artform, so sucks to be him, because I just countered that shit for free damage. And that was it basically. Mainly focused on deflecting with some attacks when safe and he went down on my first real try against the later phases.
Now I say "easy" but honestly, I think spending so much time on the game and absolutely loving the feel of the combat helped loads. As after who knows how many hours, everything felt second nature to me. I also feel the posture damage to the boss was way higher compared to the Shura and Owl fights. Which made them "feel" easier because phases were shorter.
Speaking of Owl, his second fight (the optional one at Hirata Estate) is probably the hardest fight in the game, in my opinion. High damage, low posture damage to him, and very few points where you can chip away at his health. He took me quite a while to just get to phase two! I feel that point really forced me to get better to proceed, and yeah even he has obvious tells to make the fight easier, especially the second phase funnily enough.
Demon of Hatred was a different story, but again that's down to his health bar and learning him inside and out (and using that one prosthetic on the final phase to make things easier on me). This was a tough boss as I had issues reading and dodging a few moves, but even then I nailed it in the end.
This is by far my favourite Fromsoft game. I absolutely love the fast paced combat, its second to none. Love the boss fights as well. Its certainly not an easy game, but rarely actually felt unfair. Definitely a game that rewards you tons by learning the bosses, combat etc. I certainly love both this and BB's faster pace take on combat in Fromsoft games, more so than the DS games for sure (which I still love, but I prefer a more offensive, in your face fighting style).
Should a sequel ever appear, I'll be there day 1.
I was a mix of both methods. I liked a bit of space between us for healing and to react to the next move more easy, but was probably more in his face than most of the later fights in the game (especially compared to his Shura form or Owl). I guess the deflection stuff though just became second nature after a point, it feels natural in the game, meanwhile doing the parry move in the DS series is never something I've relied on because my timing kinda sucks with it.I just watched a stream of someone who managed to beat Sword Saint after 14 hours. ;)
It was quite a sight to behold the finishing moment, but I think he made it much harder for himself since his strategy was mostly to run around dodging his attacks rather than being face to face and learning how to deflect them.
Mostly story stuff, the game blocks you of giving the sake to some npcs and some dialogue options but nothing more.Speaking of Dragons Rot... I went through the entire game and never cured it. Was there any really good rewards locked behind the NPCs? Because it wasn't something that I found actually affected my run at all.
You get more and dragon rot is no big deal really, just use it when you're ready to progress an NPC questline.God dammit. I beat the Cursed Ogre and got the droplet and used it from my inventory screen instead of using it at the idol to cure dragonrot -___-
Absolutely yes.
I don't know if it's the best, but the Antechamber Idol has a free stealth kill just nearby. You can either do the tedious method by killing that one mob over and over, or just do quick runs of the whole area a few times over.Where's the best place to farm XP... I feel like it's going to take forever to get the last abilities. I don't see how people have them unlocked on their first run.
Where's the best place to farm XP... I feel like it's going to take forever to get the last abilities. I don't see how people have them unlocked on their first run.
Nice jobGenichiro Ashina defeated. I feel like I turned a corner in this game.
Genichiro Ashina defeated. I feel like I turned a corner in this game.
Agreed. He completely kicked my ass the first time we met, couldn't counter his lightning attack for shit. End game? I was countering and deflecting like a pro. Felt good!That's exactly what you did. Gatekeeper boss that teaches you how to really play. Lots of challenges ahead, but if you beat him you can do it all even if some bosses take hours.
I don't know when I'm going to be able to get back to this game but when I do I have a feeling I'll be totally lost.
What's worse about Sekiro compared to other Souls games is it doesn't let you replay the tutorial. All the Souls games except Demon's Souls let you travel back to the initial tutorial area and essentially replay it. Another problem is you can only read the tutorial prompts once. RPGs these days tend to file them away into a codex so you can re-read them at any time.
There's a replayable tutorial guy in the dilapidated temple though.
lol it be like that. If you can get past Genichiro you can beat the game tho.