Yeah uh I'm watching a video of the final boss because this thread intrigued my interest. This game looks insanely hard, it makes Bloodborne look like Knack.
It is a hard game, and very different from Souls games.
But it's not impossible (I'm hardly the best player out there, and I was able to do it with a little struggle and a lot of fun), and once you get in the rhythm of the fights, there's little else like it. A superb game.
2nd phase. tricky. very tricky. deflect everything, he has 3 hit combos, dont bother attacking until he lands all three hits. use umbrella to block his special attacks and projected force to attack after a block. this should be the longest and toughest phase of the fight.
I disagree. I wanted this phase to last longer.
His Ashina cross is ridiculously easy to counter: if you get in his face, he'll switch to a short jab (it's almost impossible to fail deflecting this) followed by a perilous sweep (and he will do this every single time if you get too close when he's holding the stance). (Countering both hits of the cross does a ton of posture damage on him, but it's so easy to get clipped by bad timing that it's not worth it IMO.) And his shockwave attacks are just pick a direction and run (if you're strafing, none of it will ever hit you).
The third and fourth phases were hardest to me, mainly because of his whirlwind attack (you can jump through it, but it's tricky to pull off) and how you can get clipped by some of his combos if you make a mistake.
