Man, I dunno about this game. I finally got the 4 prayer beads and I got...+1 vitality? So I still do the same pidly damage and my health is barely noticeably any longer? Guess there is no upgrade system to make things easier in this haha.
My only issue with the whole "draw the mobs out first, reset the boss and stealth and then fight the boss" is that when you spend 10 mins setting this up and then you die in 20 seconds and have to do it all again it's not fun. This happened on the dumb shinobi guy for me, then I tried to just fight him with all the enemies still alive and that went bad, then did the whole kill all grunts first and then beat him but yeah that was annoying. Same thing happened on drunk boi, stealthed and cleared all the grunts and activated samurai guy only to still get killed WHILE TALKING TO THE SAMURAI GUY ACTIVATING HIM and then lolz when I resurrect I get hit while resurrecting and die instantly for a 2nd time. Just feels like a huge waste of time taking out the grunts each time. Next time I took out the grunts quicker and didn't get hit while activating samurai guy and shot him with oil and fire and slices from behind and it was no problem.
Tried fighting Lady Butterfly. I'd heard she was ridiculously hard, so I was kinda surprised when after a few deaths of getting the hang of dodging all her moves and staying in her face with single slashes between each of her attacks, I killed her without taking almost any damage on like my 3rd attempt. THEN PART 2 and yeah fuck that I don't have the skillset in this game yet to deal with dodging her attacks again this time while getting mob stabbed from ghosts behind me and then she did that move where they all turn back into light and then explode me for instant kill, ehhhhhh.
Guess I'll go back to Ashino now and make some progress in that direction and come back to Butterfly later. Was hoping that getting the 4 pray beads would make a noticably difference in feeling stronger but nope, maybe after the second group of 4 I'll get +1 on my strength and then I'll notice a change? I'm not even sure what skills I should be getting so I'm mainly just grabbing stealth skills for now.