Sekiro Shadows Die Twice (translator's note: Sekiro means ninja fuckery)

[kingv]

I have to save those for when I need them duh. 

[Bebpo]

Just eat anti-fear pills/estus and take off the majority of his health during the long cry

Yeah this works too.

[HardcoreRetro]

Only got xp grinding left for the platinum trophy.

[Rufus]

Rikimaru from the Tenchu games.

[Don Rumata]

Fuck that's a good looking Rikimaru, i'm gonna install it.

[Svejk]

Is that a dlc?!  Really From?!  Fucking cock teasers.  If they drop a playable Ayame, I'll buy this game today.

[Svejk]

I was about to say      

[kingv]

I thought only dlc announced was the easy mode and the auto parry token micro transactions.

[Svejk]

PC ftw

[Don Rumata]

Those animations on 2B. 

[HardcoreRetro]

32 skillpoints down, 8 to go...

The grinding is so boring I'm listening to entire albums while doing runs.

Edit:




The superhit on which I got the platinum.

[kingv]

Got up to the owl. I really had a hard time grinding through the Ashina Castle rooftops until I realized there is a route you can take where you don’t really have to fight much, and can kill most of the purple dudes with stealth.

Also beat vilehand and chained ogre 2.

The chained ogre stays one of the worst fights. He’s an enemy I think is legit cheap. The tracking on his attacks is worse than probably any other enemy in the game. The drop kick and the diving throw can both change direction in mid air substantially and when you get hit by them in that situation it feels like total bullshit.

[Himu]

Putting the ogre in that closed in room. Smh

[kingv]

He’s strangely hard to bait too. I would just keep circling that statue and he would just follow me, then eventually I’d be like “oh I guess I need to slash at him” then he would finally attack.

I do like his people’s elbow move though, lol.

[Bebpo]

By that point in the game just light his ass on fire and be done with it.

[Bebpo]

 

[kingv]

By that point in the game just light his ass on fire and be done with it.

I find the fire not as helpful as I’d hoped. You can light him up, but it’s not super reliable, and doesn’t really get you far enough to beat him without having to learn the fight.

I think that’s the case with most of the bosses really. Prosthetics May help if you are close to beating it on your own, but seldom are enough to get you there on their own.

[Coax]

Putting the ogre in that closed in room. Smh

I used doorway strats similar to your Bloodbourne video in the other thread

[Bebpo]

By that point in the game just light his ass on fire and be done with it.

I find the fire not as helpful as I’d hoped. You can light him up, but it’s not super reliable, and doesn’t really get you far enough to beat him without having to learn the fight.

I think that’s the case with most of the bosses really. Prosthetics May help if you are close to beating it on your own, but seldom are enough to get you there on their own.

I actually think you're wrong on this. I did the drop down deathblow for 1 HP and then flame shot -> slash slash slash -> flame shot -> slash slash slash -> flame shot -> slash slash slash and it pretty much killed him. You might need to dodge an attack to get in close to flame vent without getting hit while doing it, but the upgraded flame vents will stun him for like 3-4 seconds each time which gets you a good amount of slashes in.

I didn't have flame vent for the first ogre and yeah he was a paaaaaain. But this second one was a joke with the deathblow + flame vent.

[kingv]

Ah, I couldn’t quite figure out the positioning for the stealth deathblow. I could see it working if you only had the one health bar to plow through. I actually didn’t 100% know you even could get it off.

[Himu]

Now that I’m at the end of BB I can say without a doubt that it is 100 times the game Sekiro is. Sekiro is good but...not nearly as good as BB. Combat, dungeon design, level design, variety, choices, customization, BB has it all. Sekiro is boring in comparison and I love Sekiro.

Sekiro might go down as goty for me, but Bloodborne is gotg. Amazing how much better BB is to me.

Either way, From is my favorite developer this gen. Haven’t played DkS3 yet but I have confidence they’ll remain in that camp unless Nintendo manages to top them (please announce new switch).

[Himu]

Dp

[Bebpo]

Ah, I couldn’t quite figure out the positioning for the stealth deathblow. I could see it working if you only had the one health bar to plow through. I actually didn’t 100% know you even could get it off.

Yeah, I came from the top save point and grappled down to the ceiling bar above and then jumped where he is and did a deathblow from above.

[kingv]

I got the Shichimen warrior and the other giraffe long arm dude or whatever he’s called by senpou temple

I can get owl down to about 1/2 of his second life bar, but not quite. Had to put aside for a day or so, was getting annoyed with him

[MMaRsu]

Yikes 

[El Babua]

Beat Owl probably took around 7-8 tries.

Struggled a lot yesterday, but got him in two tries tonight!

[kingv]

I haven’t went back to owl yet, but a lot of times I find that waiting a day or two and going back to a boss makes them seem a lot easier.

[El Babua]

Damn, Fountainhead Palace just tanks my framerate.

Still beat True Corrupted Monk first try but all that fog and whatever else tanking the performance definitely made things feel a bit more choppy.

[MMaRsu]

There is now a mod that lets you play as Ryu



 

[Don Rumata]

LOL so Distortion has the WR for all beads. all memories now for like 3-4 days and yesterday he was 1 minute ahead of it at the Isshin fight and by mistake used Double Ichimonji because of the UBER SHIT way the game handles L1 + R1 inputs. He died of course and the new WR (still his) is lost.

Fuck this game for the imbecile way of assigning Combat Arts to L1 + R1 while having block as L1 and attack as R1. Happened to me too many times so after like 30 hours I just unassigned it and had 0 Combats Arts on me. They are useless anyway so no big deal.

You can remap controls though, that's pretty sweet.

[Himu]

Not once in my 60+ hours did I ever accidentally hit block or attack when I meant to go for a combat art. Pretty easy.

[Don Rumata]

Not once in my 60+ hours did I ever accidentally hit block or attack when I meant to go for a combat art. Pretty easy.

Distortion is a casul. 

[El Babua]

Owl Father is the best boss in the game so far.

Just beat Divine Dragon, which was a pretty cool spectacle. I hear these last couple of bosses are on the frustrating side of difficult so we'll see how that goes.

So far, as far as my ranking for Soulsish FROM games go it's

Bloodborne = Demon's > Sekiro > Dark 3 = Dark 1 > Dark 2

[HardcoreRetro]

I honestly thought the boss for the good ending was the best one in the game. Basically tests all the skills you've learned throughout the game.

Hate the Shura ending boss.

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I didn't understand the dumbass fire attack at all, so I looked up how to deal with that one... "Jump to your right four times" which actually works for avoiding it. Fucking stupid.

[close]

[El Babua]

I would consider the Demon of Hatred to be a cheap asshole if the fire umbrella didn't exist. But holy shit, the dodge and jump timings to avoid his AOE fire attacks are ridiculous.

Got him down to almost death, but I panicked and fucked up. 

[El Babua]

Beat DOH and Isshin

Awesome final boss! I made it a goal to kill myself if I lost a life to Genichiro, so I'm pretty sure I died more to him than Isshin lol

I got into the zone when I hit phase 3 for the first time, almost unconsciously parrying and blocking his attacks - managing to break his posture and put it to an end. Did have to use a hidden tooth at some point during the fight to save a revive however.

Isshin kept me on the absolute edge, but there was a counter to all his attacks. Really liked that both Owl Father and Isshin punished you for trying to dodge their windups (I'm sure i'm in the minority on that). And the umbrella saved me from a few of his AOE attacks. Even including Genichiro, I still think I died more against Gehrman actually.

Gotta ruminate a bit on Sekiro. But I don't think it'll change my previous ranking. I thought the Fountainhead Palace - Endgame was actually the best stretch of the game, so like Bloodborne it ended pretty strong.

Really excited to see what FROM has in store at E3 and hopefully we get some DLC announcements for Sekiro too!

[HardcoreRetro]

Might as well show off my final fight.

[HardcoreRetro]

I spent my time listening to music while grinding.



The superhit on which I got the platinum.

[paprikastaude]

not even a trophy for defeating tutorial genjiro   

[Himu]

https://www.reddit.com/r/fromsoftware/comments/c14l2x/sekiro_dlc_not_in_dev_according_to_resetera/

No dlc for Sekiro.



I mean, the game is great nothing new makes the game ultimately limited. Great game and so far goty but nothing compared to BB. Elden Ring I hope is on par! Most anticipated game rn.

[Don Rumata]

https://www.reddit.com/r/fromsoftware/comments/c14l2x/sekiro_dlc_not_in_dev_according_to_resetera/

No dlc for Sekiro.

Can't say i'll miss it, i basically forgot about the game in record time (whereas usually i'd play FROM games for dozens and dozens of hours past their ending).

I think it's good for them to move on to something with a bit more substance to it (hopefully Elden Ring is that).

[Bebpo]

That's pretty weird since they've done substantial DLC expansion on all their games for a while.

Plus the DLCs are often better than the main games. Was looking to jump back on for the DLC.

[bork]

https://twitter.com/nunswa08/status/1154620148319264768

[HardcoreRetro]

One of my friends hasn't played the game yet, so I'm turning it into a drinking game. Take a shot of hard liquor every time he dies.

[HardcoreRetro]

Lady Butterdly and GYOUBU ONIWA!!!!!! are realy fucking us up. Still coherent enough to wriye, but barely.

[El Babua]

Die or die twice?

Imma try beating the final boss on edibles in NG+

[HardcoreRetro]

Die twice. Friendvfucked off at 11:30 pm. nToo much fucking alcohol..'

[HardcoreRetro]

Really  badc idea ... Donr themselvesurn the gamee intto a drin iingbgame.

[HardcoreRetro]

U
i hatew how  te fucking teribble writing gives me laughing fits

[El Babua]

Imma try beating the final boss on edibles in NG+

As promised, here's me fighting Isshin (zooted)

[toku]

[Svejk]

Finally getting on the Sekiro train.  Glad to see it's getting multiple GOTY awards.  I've only gotten to that flaming village so far, but damn this shit good.   Reading back on this thread, I pretty much have yet to see anything this game has to offer. lol  So looking forward to it!

[Svejk]

Why are most of your posts in this thread edited out, Borys? 

[Himu]

GG Svejk. Hope you enjoy it more than me. I found it to be one of the weakest Souls game in existence. SUPERB art direction and voice acting, though. And ANIMAL KINGDOM instead of Knights & Shit.

In the end, Sekiro is pretty forgettable due to the lack of RPG choices. There's almost no choice and combat isn't interesting past a certain point. I don't see myself combing back to it unfortunately, but I do think they improve lots in a sequel. I want an From RPG in Japan. Sekiro is great for scratching the Ninja Gaiden itch and got me to give Souls another chance, which I vastly prefer to it, so there's that at least. Still GOTY 2019 despite what misgivings I'm writing. BB and DS1 are just that much better.

[paprikastaude]

There's enough Souls games, including a Samurai clone. Thank god this game was different.

[El Babua]

Loved that they did a straight Action-Adventure game.

Main criticisms are that almost all the sword skills are worthless aside from like 3 and that most of the prosthetic tools are more circumstantial than generally useful.

Otherwise it has the most realized combat mechanics in a Souls-Era FROM game and I hope they build on it for future titles.

[MMaRsu]

Not every game has to be a goddamn rpg

[MMaRsu]

Even made by Team Ninja, sans Itagaki. So it should scratch that Ninja Gaiden itch even moreso.

[Raist]

Warning: NiOh is trash.

[MMaRsu]

Warning: NiOh is trash.

Lol no it aint