Comfy Sekiro thread

My dudes if you are having trouble with grandma make sure she isnt your first boss. While I was raping her first phase the second was always killing me. I trailed off and beat the horse guy and with the upgrades/loot I got from adventuring there she turned into an easy fight.

youtube.com/watch?v=C_ywF3fp564
great song

I forgot the help message that tells you how to do that. Was it parry midair then press R1 as you land?

After 16 hours of playtime, I beat it.
Game was fun and the bosses were really cool, I still haven't beat the Secret Boss yet and I want to drive my head through a damned wall.

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Anyone have tips for Seven spears faggot? I keep parrying his shit but the parry literally sends me back like 15 feet and his posture regains.

its get hit by the attack in the air and press r1 as you land. no deflecting necessary.

I'm still learning Genichiro.

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>I'm at 12 hours and am at the two different Snake Eyes bosses
How far am I?

>play the game like Dark Souls and dodge/attack
>get hit a lot, enemies take a long time to kill
>play the game like a samurai swordfighting simulator
>break the enemy posture and instakill them
>suddenly halfway through the game enemies start having infinite posture
>have to revert back to dodge/attacking to lower their health so their posture would be easier to break
It's weird.

not that genichiro, cake walk

hardest bosses with 4 phases i'll ever fight

Do shit to his damage. Oil and cannon for example.

Is there a lightning sword technique anywhere like what genchiro and Isshin use?

Not very.

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When Yea Forums tells you you’re only halfway after beating owl when it’s more like 70% done

>demon of hatred
this enemy is in the wrong game

so he is bad because he is hard and long?
that's actually why i like him. i'm so tense in the second and third phase of sword saint because he's significantly more lethal there and the consequence is having to face phase one and two again, which while not hard, occasionally deal decent damage to me.

Holy shit that is fucking hilarious
You mean like interrupt his shit? I've been doing that with firecrackers and the ash but i just can't seem to get a break. Man i fucking suck at this game.

You might want to dodge those jumping "helm splitter" attacks, since they're heavy on your posture, and you can't retaliate after a deflection. Dodging those will allow you to do some health+posture damage on the enemy, while suffering no posture damage yourself. See . Deflecting is only worth it if you can capitalize on them with a deathblow or a counter. Or if you're just trying to save your ass.

>haha wasnt the first one annoying?
>well now heres another one in a poison pool surrounded by elevated enemies!

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not proud but that's how I did that

yeah it's tediously long, which I guess is exciting from pure relief

>I keep parrying his shit but the parry literally sends me back like 15 feet and his posture regains.
Don't parry the huge attacks that send you flying just dodge them and counter-attack. There are still iframes, just tighter windows. But if you can see those attacks coming, you can dodge them.
Also, he can counter your mikiri counter, parry his counter and that will make him lose his balance and fall down for a second.

with shirahagi you can deathblow her with gachin's sugar from the side. shirafuji didn't give you that choice.

No I mean do shit that causes damage to his health over time while you fight him. Unless his AI allows you or you get his health low, he's not going to have his posture broken. Lower his health.

Confetti is the dumbest mechanic.

It's just transient curse, m8

90% of people saying the game is not that hard would crumble into dust if a patch came out tomorrow fixing L1 spam.

What happens to Emma anyway? Does she just stay in the Tower while it gets invaded and you run off with Kuro?

That area is fucking awesome with the spiderman action. I wish the game had more arenas with momentum grappling shenanigans.

Dude, there's a bonfire in the swamp. Run past her, light the bonfire, then sneak up on her and backstab. Proceed to fight normally after that, just drag her back a bit so that the statue would hide you from the other enemies in the area.

thats probably true. but it wouldnt happen. i completed my second playthrough of the game today and the only boss i didnt beat first try was either ape fight or the demon of hatred. every other boss was done in one go.

L1 spam is hardly a thing in this game. It opens you up to deflections and posture damage
Plus it would actually ruin the game by making it slower

>Think I finally got a hold of the combat
>Come across Guardian Ape

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He can counter the thing meant to counter thrusts? What the absolute fuck was miazaki thinking.

Thanks!

>taking 100 tries to kill a boss
no thanks

This isn't simply simon says or rock paper scissors gameplay. You have to pay attention to the enemy animations.
Countering an enemy once doesn't guarantee they're open for a counter immediately.

its funny because you can actually deflect all of his non perilous attacks. it might not look it, but this is true for every enemy in the game, even the giant ones like demon of hatred.
except for divine dragon. i didn't even try to deflect against him, he seems like he's a step above the average big guy. and his fight is more of a flavor/gimmick fight than anything else.

BING BONG CLANG CLANG
The bock / deflect sound design is really getting on my nerves.

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That boss is awful to fight, you'll eventually get its patterns down and then it becomes about not getting clipped by the dumb fucking hitbox on some of his moves.
Phase 2 was actually a lot easier for me.

>hmm final phase of the game huh what to do
>let's just make everything kill you in two hits
tips on final boss?

how much longer are other 3 endings after shura

dont have time

Guardian Ape is a real fun fight. First phase it's a typical soulsborne fight, you dodge or block giant enemy attacks and whittle down its health.
Second phase is a Sekiro style sword fight, where you have to (I repeat have to) parry his sword combos. Parrying will route the AI into a new pattern that ends in a big opening if you do it right.

yes you can deflect divine dragon's attacks

>let's just make everything kill you in two hits
You mean like the rest of the entire fucking game?

You can in fact deflect most of the dragon's moves including the air slashes the indicator ones of course you can't.

Question:
Am i supposed to fight that general Samurai at the very beginning of the game (2nd statue) or just come back later?
Because he kicks my ass.

Eh, it's okay, but it and the deathblow opening audio cue are too damn loud.

He's tutorial boss you're suppose to beat

Yes, he's a mandatory fight. He's also monumentally easy, compared to what's to come.

Where is all the Sekiro porn?

Sword Saint has too much busted bullshit that leads to instakills. 50/50 mixups you can't read, bad From hitboxing. It's a dirty fucking boss and coming off of DMC5 it's even worse seeing From continue to pull shit like this.

The general dudes become regular enemies later.

>Sword Saint
only boss that feels like complete bullshit so far

stealth his first bar and then spam ash at him/use the red sugar
he doesn't have any super crazy moves, and dodging left works no matter what he's doing

unironically one of the best parts of the game is the audiovisual feedback of the fights

>tfw Butterfly in less than 10 tries
Shurikens are your friend bros.

Yeah I really liked that the p2 wasn't just 'Guardian ape but harder'.

Emma is not for lewd!

gotta love tell-less mix ups

whats the stealth like in this game? combat looks fine but stealth is where i excel and i am used to really complicated stealth mechanics

I killed the Guardian Ape and need to do something with a bottomless pit I think? Where do I go?

Miyazaki can't make a game hard without breaking the rules.

>He doesn't open up on 90% of minibosses with a free stealth deathblow

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Honestly I'd only agree on his 2nd phase by the time you get to his 3rd you've realized the combos and you can also just ride the lightning.

>only boss that feels like complete bullshit so far
*blocks your path*

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when you learn his litany of moves i think he plays pretty fair. the problem is he has 30ish different moves across all phases for you to memorize.

Which skill tree has the best ultimate skill?
I want to unlock the Mushin Arts but I am not sure which one to get.

Also is the prostheticupgrade materials farmable?

The reason you can parry that fast is because certain enemies attack that fast
Crawling giraffe or whatever her weird name is for instance. A fun fight because it’s basically the Ashina Elite swordsman fight but she does ten hits at once instead of just two.

through the well you started the game in

It's definitely not Thief, but stealth is still essential to the game and you won't get far without using it.

Stealth is a minigame at best. It barely even exists.

Lightning counter is really squirrely.

The shota told you to gather the ingredients for the incense, do it.

Can you do her quest as well as the divine child one or is it one or the other?

It's fun on some of the minibosses but useless on every single real boss.

I don't really believe you because I'm watching someone do NG+++ now after watching him do vanilla. He did the typical from shit which is XD u haf 2 die to lurn da phases

probably senpou or prosthetic

can you instantly deathblow the guy with the ghost balls if you jump from a specific spot?

yeah thats too much to ask

hes really not bad, especially since you can get a drop kill on him in phase 2

Oil works too.
>Oil her
>Set her on fire as she drops
>She flails for free hits

it's very generous
you can walk up behind and then past an enemy to stealth kill the guy in front of them before the rear guy will aggro
You can even stealth mini-bosses and take out half their health, or big ass common enemies that you wouldn't assume could be one-hit stealthed can be

What's the best combat art?

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I'm at 19 hours and I only just beat Genichiro. Are you people just not exploring or some shit?

then don't fucking play video games, I mean jesus fucking christ if you dont have the time to get better at a video game then why play them at all? its like saying "I don't have time to put (insert amount of time) into (insert time sink game)" and then proceeding to play different games, WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT? YOU OBVIOUSLY HAVE FUCKING TIME TO PLAY OTHER SHIT SO WHY DONT YOU "HAVE TIME" FOR ANOTHER FUCKING GAME? JESUS SHITTING FUCKING CHRIST I CANT FUCKING STAND HYPOCRITICAL FUCKING MONGALOIDS LIKE YOU THAT SCOFF AT ANYTHING THAT DOESNT GIVE YOU AN INSTANT FUCKING DOPAMINE SHOT AND HANDJOB FOR WALKING FORWARD SERIOUSLY FUCKING NECK YOURSELF YOU DUMB FUCKING WASTE OF SPACE

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>Lightning counter is really squirrely.
There is a delay from when he jumps up transitioning to use it running away before he attacks and memorizing the timing can help you there.

that's one of the easiest bosses in the whole game.

>especially since you can get a drop kill on him in phase 2
How?

ichimonji double or improved mortal draw

>bosses with 3 health bars that you have to go back through the trivial easy phases each time
for fucks sake

>he
She's easy though. You even had a demo fight with the spirit form to teach you the moves.

Git gud.

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Corrupted Monk is one of best telegraphed enemies in the game. Literally no reason to even get hit unless you get corner and the camera fucks up.

Perfect parrying an entire combo isn't L1 spam, L1 spam is anticipating an attack and whiffing parry 5 times so you take less poise damage than if you just held block.
If you took that out of the game it would be better. Also the deflect window makes you parry early which is gay, it should actually be the point of impact.

Memorizing the timing is one thing but memorizing the timing like five boss phases in where a whiff is an instakill is something else entirely. Eat shit Miyazaki you hack. NG2 wasn't this tedious.

>finally beat angry demon after an hour
>feeling good
>mfw final boss
this game sucks

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>killing the Serpent

How incredibly satifying

You can fucking stealth deathblow it twice and move it into phase 3 if you run in fast enough and get to the back tree.
Shit's easy as hell anyway since her 1st and 2nd phase are largely the same.

Stealth is useful for:
>scouting out where all the enemies are
>stealth kills for not getting mobbed
>taking off one deathblow from minibosses

>Guardian Ape
>kill him, chop his head off
>mfw
Surprise second phases are great.

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I dont think granny would have given me such a hard time had the camera not fucked up every other time she jumped around on her lines

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>no secret storyline for Emma that turns out the Guardian Ape was the monkey from back then that lets you skip the boss when you take her with you
>condition to unlock the quest is giving her monkey booze
Missed opportunity.

so I get jumping and doing r1 for the lighning attacks but fuck is that precise, I got 1 maybe 2 off, didnt notice a diff

Ichimonji Double seems to do the most damage.

I remember the first time that happened.
Why aren't I getting an achievement? Oh well where do I go no- OH JESUS.

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Just wait dude. She is literally a tutorial boss. It gets so much fucking worse.

Haven't fought Isshin yet but Genichiro was fucking rad.
Get fucked.

They're saving Emma for DLC.

Shura ending best ending.

I hate all these people.

Except the jew

You can literally just mash R1 and it'll work as long as you got hit in the air.

I've explored everything I can and I'm in my final unexplored area 15 hours in. Do you just stand still and stare at buildings?

Pure fucking kino

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Guys, I need help! Not with combat though.
In this area , there's a cave above the idol in the swamp I couldn't find a way to reach. I got the treasure on top of the Budda statue head, but still couldn't find a path to that cave.

Everyone loves 5 hours in Genichiro. The boss that is the Genichiro Isshin duet is utter fucking trash and you too shall agree when you get there.

This.
How are people struggling with the easiest boss in the game? Even DSP beat her.

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I didn't really struggle with her the camera just kept unlocking on her and it was aggravating as hell

no man, that rooftop genichiro is great. not what I'm talking about. From recycles a lot

Ive never understood why people feel the need to rush through the game.

She was harder for me than the vast majority of other bosses. I guess I finally got gud on her.

You can interrupt most of her line shenanigans with a shuriken, although I've never used it on my kill run.

The game literally gives you a tutorial message on how to beat her.
>dash > hit > dash > hit > dash > hit until she dies

The ninja miniboss is not that hard. My nightmare enemy is the first shinobi assassins. Fuck spearguys.

youtube.com/watch?v=bRLDpcpQzr8&feature=youtu.be

I didn't rush.

Bitch really is just a tutorial for dodge-counterslash. Maybe a shuriken if she gets away from you.

I wish from added a weapon to kill Apparitions without having to use Divine Confetti which drains your HP in return. Kinda like like the Muramasa blade in Tenchu.

>bought the colored rice thinking it was plot relevant
>it's just the glowy stones nobody ever used in dark souls

1800 fun money for that one

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Mine just jumps around a lot, no way in hell she gets put for so long.

Ah, you were at my side all along... My true mentor...

>do really well on phase one of a fight constantly, suddenly get a new cycle every time and need to relearn it.
fuck me

I knew this. As I said, she wasn't that hard, the camets lock just kept dropping and I'd have to search around for her.

>not just sneak attacking him for FREE deathblow

>attack power 13
Were you deliberately not popping the memories?

I just used divine abduction on the troll dude like he asked me to... what now? He's gone, lol.

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I lost like 5 times before it clicked with me. Had a lot of trouble until i just said fuck it and spammed the fuck out of her with R1s and parried her 3 combo thing when she kicks.
Trust me you haven't yet. I havent yet and im all the way up at seven spear fag. You literally have to memorize every single move by every single boss and play them differently. This game is going to be the death of me.

>Headless under water
What the fuck were they thinking?

Go to Folding Screen Monkey zone

if you don't know what that is just keep progressing through the temple area

I just beat the game and granny was the hardest boss, with only grandpa coming close.

>hardest bosses with 4 phases i'll ever fight
easy as fuck, just run like forsen

>camets
Apparently I'm drunk. Camera

DLC1: More monkeys
DLC2: Sneks back, and he's pissed

You went from one boss to the next with out exploring or trying anything out dont lie to me.

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>no coop to get carried by other players
>no shield block backpedal
>no vitality/end pumping
>no broken armor set
>no cheese weapon setup
>no bow poking
>no down-time during bossfights since their healthbars are posture based which means you can't just continuously run away and take a quick sippy if you don't want their healthbar to recover
>stats increase through limited items which means you can't just farm yourself to an insanely high SL to power through encounters
>weapon moveset is deliberately simple, low range, doesn't have easily accessible poke moves that you can hit from a dozen dick-lengths away
>no i-frames
What was he thinking?

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I not cheese in this game user, is better learn to parry for the bosses, the game is basically parry all the moves and dont stop attacking.

Really? How did you beat seven spears? cheese or did you just run away?

>Trust me you haven't yet
But I've completed the game.

>You literally have to memorize every single move by every single boss and play them differently
Just react quicker. Deflect windows are big enough to allow you that.

sadly, just run works on a lot of bosses. owl was one of the few that it didn't. he's pretty easy though regardless.

>Rice loli needs food to create rice
W-Where's it coming from?

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I found every area in the game and fought every boss that wasn't tied to a specific ending.

>tfw took a break from fighting one headless and immediately ran into that one by accident

how does From get away with it?

the underwater one is easy at least

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The fight is long enough

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>fails to properly punish the long jump kick
Embarrassing.

>thirsty for __Wolf__
>know porn won't be any good, even with Emma

What is this godless world I've been born into?

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>No parry the kicks.
You dont learn nothing in 8, 9 hours?

youtube.com/watch?v=WcYMXlnwWeg

Things stronger than shaolin monks in this game:
1. Hopping retarded midgets with butter knives
2. Lanky gunwielding cave-dwelling freaks
3. Literal fucking monkeys

Shaolin bros got SHIT on in this game.

This is in no way an accurate representation of the fight. This was lucky

>the fight is long enough
8 minutes fight running instead of 2 hours die and retrying

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he wasn't that hard idk. obviously the spear dodge counter came in handy. the second one I did just run from but that was more bc I wanted to get to the final boss and it's boring fighting the same guy.

if I lure this black guy in the dungeon will he get killed by the surgeon?

The room is so short for a better camera angle user, thats whats the problem for punish the kick.

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I think it works on owl too, step back until he does his jump attack

Cope.

>2 hours
6 so far

>got past gun fort
>enter monkey valley
>fight through monkey business
>see big monkey in arena
>walk up to him
>INITIATE MONKEY BIZNESS PHASE 1
>cue flailing and screeching and I die in a fart cloud
Well I never

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You think thats bad there is a fight with TWO headless under water.

There is another one? fucking shit

But it's the easiest Headless by far. It's hard to even call it a fight.

I really like this game guys

>2 hours die and retrying
B-Bro I'm already 6 hours in
Should I just start to learn how to run

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kek

Not him but every miniboss can be semi-cheesed with either the firecrackers or the magnet umbrella
He doesn’t do his sudden Rock Paper Scissors dire followup if you parry by just spamming the spin button on magnetic umbrella, and you get free good boy posture points for doing it
Once it’s up to about half full just do jumping firecrackers into full charged double Ichimongi and you’ll get his second lifebar since you stealth killed the first one
Not proud of it but he is one badass motherfucker that no one else fights like all game with his aforementioned ‘you parried perfectly, now time to play my minigame’

And you probably watched videos on how to cheese every boss instead of doing it the right way. There's no way you found all the prosthetics without exploring each area unless you watched videos on that too.

What do you do after you finish the game?

>6 hours
Embrace the Way of Marathon

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someone please give tips on final boss
swords phases are easy but then he pulls the hyper armor spear out of his ass

Does anybody feel like they know where the fuck they're going? I'm wandering from place to place confused as hell. Atleast in Souls games NPCs constantly reference places and people, but in here it seems like I'm just going from boss to boss without knowing why.

What the hell is Ashina? An enemy empire?

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guy fucks you when you run idk how he did it, probably wont learn it either

Is that some kind of upgraded mortal blow?

>"I'm out of firecracker"
worst feel

Wrong.

Play NG+

You are given an item which if you give it to Kujo, makes it so everything that isnt a perfect parry hits you for chip damage.

You can also go ring the demon bell early and make it even harder.

Every hit is basically one shot kill, every missed parry either kills you or chips off your HP. Have fun.

I haven't even found the umbrella yet. Is it with the merchant by the underground?

>meme spouting
I beat her but to imply that webm is a typical interaction is retarded

They’re not real shaolin. They’re heretical wannabes who are likely starving themselves in the hopes of being chosen to receive the bugs. All the non infected ones look real run down, so that’s how I read it.

based

Wait, are mini-bosses optional?

Go back to DMCV

Anytime you see ‘send them to the dungeon’ it’s the ‘i Don’t care about this character’s questline, kill them’ option.

I must have overlooked it then.

No, I waited years for this game and I'm taking my time. Sorry, I don't want to put a marbled steak into a blender so I can consume it faster

I think it's regular, but he's starting it in the air. I forgot there's a skill that lets you do that. Honestly, I don't use the arts that much. But Mortal Blow is super cool (and anime), so I'm building up to the upgraded one right now.

Siiiiick. I love that art, got it super early too.

Only if they don't block your forward progress, if they do they are not

how do I deal with not being good enough to beat this, easy time up til the end

>t. took 5 hours on Genichiro

After he does the kick he goes into the swipe, jump it and do the jump kick for big posture damage.
But deflecting it in the first place is a waste of your own posture, because it doesn't stop his combo. Just dodge it and attack to do some vitality+posture damage.

Yeah only 4 out of 27 mini boss are obligatory
Juzou to unlock lady butterfly
armored warrior to unlock temple
giraffe centipede
blazing bull
that's it, all other can be ran through

>im out of firecrackers
THIS BUT ON AXE
SPIRIT EMBLEMS WERE A MISTAKE

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>duet
What? Are you referring to the last boss? Or is there like a secret boss where they fight you at the same time, a la Nioh. I hated the multi-boss battles in that game.

Having just beat the game, I can say that while four life bars is a bit much (counting them both, of course), Isshin is actually pretty easy to manage. His first bar is practically free, because he moves so slow because he's a badass or whatever, but the parry timing is so generous it doesn't really matter. Also lots of opportunities for jump counters/Mikuri.

>tfw your best bro wants to die so much you can't bring yourself to pick the non-death option because that only leads him to suffer more
bros...
jesus christ this is souls all over again, Suzaku and Hanbei both canonly dead etc

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am I insane or did spirit tokens used to all come back after a death
I used em all up and now only have 12/18

>Has survived over a thousand patterns, unknown to Grab, nor known to swipes
I have the reference

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So what do you guys want to see in DLC?
I want to see more beasts and monsters so things like kappa, byakko, oni, bake-neko and more spooky apparations.

>using firecracker
>when flame barrel does the same thing but also does damage

forecrackers not even worth it until the final upgrade

im SO HAPPY that Yea Forums and dunkey ruined this for me

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Ichimonji is literally the axe though and it doesn't use emblems

I'm just disappointed the arts do like no damage. They're just for flashy repositioning and tricks like this jump.

you had extras banked and got them from using bonfires - you eventually ran out

Then fuck off?

guardian ape is the best boss fromsoft have ever made, stylistically and mechanically

flame barrel has a longer cast time, and is less effective if not effective at all on many bosses such as the final one

No, it’s the little guy in the blown out house around the Grave idol in Ashina Castle. He’s down the hill from the idol in an attic. Note that you have to upgrade it once to get the spinning spam deflect, otherwise it’s just a turtle block shell.

I in Senpo temple in 15 hours. I ok?

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took a few repeats but then i noticed the foot

someone please I just want to finish this stupid fucking game
or are you all shitters too

Uh, is that low? I had 12, and I hadn't used Isshin's memory yet. I also had 17 Vitality.
At 30 hours. ; ;

Dark Souls, but anime.

I'm so sorry user

you can go there before or after like 2 different huge things so it's irrelevant.

how is this thread comfy, the game is crazy hard. literally uncomfy

There's no easy way
Have fun

>omg parasites inside people is that a bloodborne reference?
>wtf is kuon?

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Most of them actually say they're for posture damage.

No. Make your life easy and get some confetti.

I beat him on my third try. I actually haven't had much trouble with any of the bosses.

Is the lore in this game as opaque as the other fromsoft games, or more straight forward?

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Once you've got the stone and flower are there any more areas to explore or do you just head back to the castle once its changed and is the final boss there?

Go home, tryhard.

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genichiro is easy as shit in the first half but the second half is really difficult

>makes it so everything that isnt a perfect parry hits you for chip damage
I absolutely fucking loathed that shit when I tried to fight the headless without confetti. No way I'm doing that any time soon.

Wish it was a proper honorable assisted seppuku like how he’s posed and ready for though.

lol no there's a lot more

It's definitely more straight forward but its still got some mysteries.

its much more straight forward and theres an actual plot with real characters

People play games differently than others, some play through faster while others go slow and steady.
Some are also shit at the game and some are really good, I expect you're the latter.

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>Way of tomoe keeps fucking me up even though I get the first two phases easily, lightning shit doesn't even reflect
>Decide to run instead of parry
>wait for him to do his flying attack with the red sign
>good spacing so I can put charged r1
>first try
running it is from here.

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More straightforward. For one thing the player character has a backstory.

I'M MCFUCKING LOVIN IT

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Is it? I bailed right away thinking it would be prime bullshit

just deflect all of his spear combos. if you deflect them all he often does a thrust which you mikiri for free posture damage.

this is fucking ridiculous

Haven't been spoiled but it was actually very obvious
>entire game is about things being reborn
>venture to the place where the "rejuvinating waters" are apparently from
>Sekiro never used the Mortal Blade to kill him
>the only boss whose corpse remains on the ground, and has collision after death
>has hit sound/effect when attacked
All the while noticing this I was praying that he wouldn't get up, to be fair

make me, homo

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How important are prosthetic tools? I'm only up the part before the horse boss, have not touched the bell level.

Yeah, you just r̶u̶n̶ swim around it in circles and stab his slow ass until he's at 0 hp.

Flame barrel only stuns as a factor of inducing the burning status effect, which without also using oil will often take two uses
It’s also slower, shorter range, shorter radius, and isn’t as quick to use in the air
Fireworks is a 180 degree instant (when used airborne) aoe 1.5 second stun, which gives you enough time to heal or charge a full double Ichimongi with no risk of counterattack unless they were in the middle of the uninterruptible frames of an attack animation

its easier because

>full 3D movement underwater and you're very fast
>his grab and attacks are very easy to avoid
>you're not slowed down at all
>dont even need confetti

>reach Mibu Village
>purple lone swordsman appears as a mob enemy
You've gotta be kidding me

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What? His moveset is basically the same, once I got his first phase down the second went down the same go. Only one health bar also means you can use spirit emblems / healing pretty liberally if you didn't use it on first phase.

they're exclusively for shitters

Good thing I pirated the game and got to play before everyone on steam, discovering the game feels great and being the one to spoil people feels good

Based and runnerpilled

>lure him out with the whistle
>stab him when he walks back

gg no re

Swipe or the kick for the kokiri counter. I prefer parry and dodge DESU.

Depends on the encounter. Some regular mooks are literally unkillable without an axe, because they have shields. Not all too useful against bosses, but there's some use for them too. If a firecracker can give you a couple of free hits on a boss, why wouldn't you? You're unlikely to run out of spirit emblems. Unless you're really bad.

i just realized this is ricardo

how do I beat sword saint spear mode? Tried running he just shoots at me and somehow slashes me with his crazy gap closers

well I feel like the game trolled me now

is the fist full of ash actually useful?
also is firecrackers useful besides scaring dogs?

All said and done it really is just the sengoku period only yokai are real and there’s the patented shoehorned in ‘we have to explain how the player respawns, make it the major plot point’ FROM are running into the ground

>LITERAL kidney stone
Fuck this shit, the village was spooky enough already.

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its straightforward but there's still a lot to uncover about the land of ashina and its denizens. the central plot is fairly simple to follow but there's stuff to dig through if that's what you want to do.

walk to the right around him.
literally makes the boss a joke.
I've chunked half his hp bar before he attacked a single time by doing that. he just keeps turning.

So where do I turn in these gourd seeds after I've beaten Genichiro? Emma is at Ashina Castle but won't take them.

I wasted like 200 spirit emblems learning how to fight the Headless.

fuck this piece of shit

you can actually get a stealthblow on the monk at the start of the fight

>Kuro gives me a "sweet rice ball"
>it looks like some kind of tumor
Knowing the game's story it very well might actually be a tumor.

you just need to progress the story a little bit and she'll start taking them again.

>had to mod in DS4 buttons
wtf miyazaki

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true monk? how?

What the hell does the reward for beating Headless even do? I can’t find it in any of the menus

What the fuck is this shit?

[/no u]

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Just talk to the NPCs to progress the story a bit further. She will go back to normal.

Pocket sand is fucking horrible, it’s insultingly bad and that’s even before you can compare it to firecrackers

>shirafuji didn't give you that choice
If you go past her, find the idol in the village past the bridge, then rest and kill all the motherfuckers around there, then make your way back as she's all alone, her backstab detection has been deliberately fucked so that you still can't do it even if you get right behind her. I still got it by half-alerting her with pottery to edge her slightly away from the cliffside which was enough to backstab just as she heard me, but fuck that shit. Second one is way better, easy backstab and it's not too hard to not aggro the enemies if you just fight her between the original position and fog gate.

the safest time to heal against him is when he does the charged 360 spin. otherwise you run very far away, heal, and deflect his inevitable jump attack.

WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS STUPID STAGGER BULLSHIT WHERE SEKIRO HOLDS HIS SWORD UP AFTER FALLING BACK LIKE A RETARD

IM TIRED OF THIS

IM ALSO TIRED OF THIS SWORD SAINT FIGHT

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It's a non-consumable consumable. Like those sugar candies, but they have infinite uses. They cost spirit emblems to use though.

it's a consumable item, it just does the same thing as the sugar but consumes spirit emblems to use

ashina castle was a mistake, rest of the game is great
the worst area to explore (basically a big open city with nothing but rooftops and enemy spam) and you have to fucking re-explore it with new, annoying enemies.

will his posture ever be broken doing that?

Bankai: Mortal Blade Combat Art, Followup!

It's an item
It's like the candy buffs but uses emblems instead, pretty useful

Run in circle wait for the attack where he does a Spear combo + rush at you with his sword, that's when you land a charged hit

>Shichiman gives you Bloodborne's blood bullets
Cool.

>Reach the castle
>There's a side path
>Go all the way through Senpou Temple up to the main hall
>Weird centipede guy tells me to deliver a message to some child upstairs, but there's no way up there and the only path is a "Door doesn't open from this side"
>Nothing to do, so I guess I'll head back
>Make my way through ayy lmao mist and to Mibu village
>Fight the weird yokai lady, Rin O' the Water, but can't kill her second health bar due to her insane posture regen as she flits about invisible, figure I need some confetti and I'll come back later
>Go forward and I'm confronted with Corrupted Monk, same shit, nearly instant posture regen as he flies around and goes nuts with multi hit spins

Well, shit. I guess I have to go back to the castle? I don't actually think Corrupted Monk is a dead end like the other one, but I feel like I need some gear to fight him, or just some divine confetti, and I don't see it for sale. Maybe I missed it in Mob's shop.

>tfw you get to the phase youre struggling with with all resurrections but you know it doesnt matter anyway

Is it possible to upgrade every prosthetic tool on NG? Or are the top level crafting materials limited per playthrough?
What about learning all the skills?

run in grapple up to the right IIRC and then jump stealthblow
you have to do it quick tho

his posture will only be broken if you can do about 45 seconds to a minute of perfect parrying and counter slashing him i think. mikiri countering his thrusts also speeds things up.

>SWORD SAINT FIGHT

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Same here

When staggered you are essentially in grounded state, pressing b let’s you ‘standing safety roll’ to the sides and has the fastest recovery, but if you were just spamming guard/deflect and got staggered Sekiro will do that animation that looks like he’s actually spooked putting both hands up and you’ll be locked in place for a half second.

you probably should've completed the castle first.

You have to do some health damage before you can break their posture. Don't just deflect everything, dodge and sneak in some counter attacks here and there.

wait, isnt that what u drop when u kill the giant ape ? can u get it elsewhere ?

So I have the two snake parts, and I gave the Divine Child the Holy Chapter: Infested, but she hasn't moved to the 4 monkey spot. Did I give it to her too early? I think I handed it over to her before I got the snake things, pretty sure as soon as I talked to her.

The game finally really clicked, and lo and behold its when you fight your dad
every attack comes in like a fucking truck and just parrying doesnt help you much.
so you have to attack immediately after parries, is what i realized. but in the middle of applying this, i found out that owl has insane switch-ups INTENDED to counter the player counterattacking. Sometimes he does a 4 hit combo. sometimes 3. sometimes 2 and just jumps away like a dickhead. sometimes 2 wide ones and then the 2 quick ones.
during his second phase he has the most BM switchup shit ever, its when he kicks off you and tosses acid. sometimes he recovers posture so you have to run in and attack. sometimes he throws acid and then does that bullshit swing that kills you in one hit, so if you run in after that, gg.
good fight though. right after that i went to heaven and perfect parried that monk bitch into submission

how in god's name do I beat the ape? phase one he just literally shits on me and then flings me around and phase two I get screamed to death.

meant for

You cant do anything too early, you need to progress through the bosses more

break him down into a predictable routine
hint, you have to parry his monkey sword. if you chain parries, you will be rewarded with that TIMBERRRR attack. parry that, get free hits, then he gets up and 90% of the time does the scream, so just run away. repeat

>final boss is by far the most difficult and lengthy fight
what were from thinking
by the time you beat the fucker you don't give a single fuck about the story

Git gud. That's all there is to it. Block/dodge first phase, parry the second. The latter is mandatory btw. You HAVE TO parry his sword combo.

>switchups outside of a fightan game
miyazaki is shit and we keep excusing him because "LOL SO EPIC YOU DIED GIT GUD"

In the very back of the Serpent God cave where you get the dried viscera, there's a path above and to the right that you can grapple to that leads back to the poison pool idol

owl's fight is indeed quite great. he feels like he has the same tools as the player in many ways and it us rather cool to beat him.

yeah thats cancerous for me. gonna quit on this one

ROBERUTOOO

Phase 1 of the ape can be parried pretty easily with L1 spam. All of his danger attacks are beaten by jumping. His openings are all over the place so good luck finding times to slash him.

Phase 2, you HAVE to learn the wiggle he does before the scream. You can't get away just going off the alert.

post yfw you enter The Zone™

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First Corrupted Monk gave me more trouble, and was far, far more unsatisfying, personally. Final fights go down pretty quickly thanks to the Posture system; if you had to deplete their Vitality, I'd be putting the game down forever.

How many deathblows does it take to refill the revive

Lightning Reversal is such a fucking sick mechanic, I wish it was used a bit more outside of a few fights and the final area of the game.

>absorbing the lightning hit from Genichiro and throwing it back at him for the posture break

most hype moment in any from game

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Thanks! I'll check it out.

i really dont get the difficulty ramp for the last boss, totally clashing with the rest of the game, hell the boss before it was the dumbest easy boss in souls

Wasn't Miyazaki's design goal supposed to be the final boss was the weakest? This was in Demon Souls and Dark Souls.

wtf bros

agreed. it really felt like i was fighting a crafty shameless old fucker.

>Phase 2, you HAVE to learn the wiggle he does before the scream. You can't get away just going off the alert.
Or you can just use if you have it. Best prosthetic in the game.

One

like 10.

Not when it has a black strike through it, but like when the meter is empty cause you used it

genichiro is just sasuke. with his tomoe, lightning

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Ashina is a domain (I'm guessing). The lord is samurai lightning. Your lord is a vassal and his family's fief is the Hirata estate.

a bazillion

Pretty sure bull is a main boss.

>umbrella beating scream
why

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How strong do you get if this game doesn't let you "grind", or do you get weaker as the game goes on since enemies get far more stronger?

yeah some npc mentions that the shinobi style has no rules and is simply to win.
you can really tell the difference fighting against another shinobi, and it almost makes you feel bad for genichiro having to fight you.

>repeater guns in Sengoku Era Japan
Fucking old man Isshin's bullshitting me

phase 1 block his shit, and avoid the grabs. the leaping lunge grab is the scary grab, you want to run into him to the left for that shit or just fucking sprint jump away. set him on fire for free damage, hit his head as much as possible

phase 2, you can jump his lunges, you can jump his sweeps, you can jump his jump sweep. be ready to fucking run from the scream every time though. the terror is the scary part of the scream. phase 2 is really easy to block and jump sweeps because he doesnt have grabs anymore, only the scream is a threat

>best prosthetic
*ahem*
*poof*
*appears behind you*
*stabs you through your chest*
nada personal mi amigo

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he is so well telegraphed that if you can't do this the rest of the game will make you uninstall

You stay consistently shit from start to finish.

It’s very quaint now, but way back when i first fought the shinobi Hunter I had lost my resurrection and had almost no health with no healing items while he still had his full second bar. I thought to run but decided I was ready to progress, so I perfect parried everything and finished with a thrust counter. It was then I knew this game would be a blast.

>getting so pissed at a boss you enter full focus mode
>enter first
>absolutely flawlessly deflect each hit
>counter at the perfect times
>bait out attacks for more flawless deflects
>destroy the boss' posture in a matter of seconds without taking a single hit

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Genichiro can fire his bow faster than Sekiro can attack. I don't feel bad for that shitter at all.

And this is also why you people thinking William wouldn't destroy him are INSANE.

minibosses and secret areas drop beads that level up your health and stamina, and every main boss levels up your weapon damage. once you get the mask you can also drop every level you get into more weapon damage, scaling infinitely presumably.

>Final boss is the hardest (except when you're a runnerchad)
Finally a strong final boss in FS games, doesn't make sense for them to be shitters.
This one has all the mechanics put together for you to show your skill, it's great

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Or you can just, you know, dodge. For free.
Why what?

Guardian Ape 2: Mate Boogaloo is such an absolute dogshit garbage fight.

Why would they make the camera fuck up whenever geometry bumps it and then put you in a put with two of those stupid fucking chimps

ROOOOOOBEEEEEEEEEEERT

so for full parrying gameplay, investing points into ashina is ideal, right?

>well telegraphed
>leaps backward while instantly firing bow
>leaps into air immediately into a 5 hit volley punish
his swordsmanship was free but his archery was pure shenanigans

Old nigga came strapped with the uzi

does it need to be upgraded? holy shit I had no idea scream was countered by it
so it's true, it seems that all bosses can be trivialized by running or by their own counter

because fuck you thats why.

investing into the shitty combat arts is not worth it until you have all the other upgrades

Ashina is the best tree by fucking miles and miles and you should rush it ASAP. Its final skill outplays everything because it costs no spirit and pairs with jumping so well.

There's so much dogshit trash in this game double ape doesn't even register.

the ashina passive perks and the thrust dodge-parry are the only great perks. you literally need to parry the later bosses it's not a matter of style.

>reach monkey trouble 2: double trouble
>throw fire cracker at second monkey
>80% of his posture is just gone
>one combo fills out the rest

This boss was just a joke after the first time you fight him.

PLEASE RESPOND I have a fuckton of Mibu balloons. Will I have to use them?

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Kek I thought I was the only one to do this, the IA was really retarded in this fight

as soon as i see him fuck off i get into defense. the bow was literally the least of my problems fighting him because you can shake off the posture damage immediately. just git gud.

there is even webm posted where the guy literally just whips the umbrella out the moment genichiro jumps and casually walks through the barrage and even punishes the boss with the umbrella attack

Just wait until You reach the second owl fight in an optional memory.
He goes full owl on you

>get whistle from first ape
>"makes beasts go berserk and cant tell friend or foe"
>fight second ape
>second ape is two apes
>hRMrMrm
just use the whistle you fucking moron god does every boss have to be a pleb filter

Yeah. Judgement cut final art is cool too but the real value is double overhead strike.

The PURPLE umbrella blocks Terror buildup and chip damage from apparition type enemies. Releasing the umbrella counter attack also does huge unblockable damage on apparitions.

Whistle does nothing in that fight

>Nightjar Monocular

Sounds like a hipster bandname.

you need to upgrade the whistle champion

I dunno, it was easier than the first fight for me, because I already learned it.
The she-ape also has very little health. I just burned her with the flamethrower and instakilled.

>mfw found out the truth about the "monkey" that gave her that rice on the battlefield
Emma the Savage Blade

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Where is the midget vendor at after you buy something and he leaves?

Maybe to farm for confetti?

tell me about the lore

Is O’Rin the sleeper hardest boss besides Japanese Hitler?

Is the second decapitated ape the same one you fight for the flower or is it a different one that just happened to get decapitated?

First checkpoint in buddhist land. Go around the corner to approach the kite.

>Nightjar
Sounds way too close to "night pot" to be taken seriously. What were they thinking?

fucking had him in phase 3 but I spent to much time running around like a retard wasting heals

>X is excruciatingly difficult
>"just use [obscure item] you moron it's so easy gawd jeez"
Absolutely kill yourself.

what a fucking idiot you are, lmao

>japanese Hitler
Oda Nobunaga is in the game?

Senpou
I don’t know if he’ll sell to you again though, I got him to the cave but he won’t leave even though his dialogue suggests he’s gonna go back to Ashina castle

easy and dumb boss
either do the jump that breaks her posture a lot or just run backward until she does her red attack

Wait for a sweep attack and literally goomba stomp her.

No, I'm asking about the prosthetic upgrading materials specifically.
You can also buy unlimited confetti in the endgame.

no boss is 1/100th as hard atleast that I've done.
under 25 attempts for most, think I'm well over 100 on that faggot. 7 hours worth

The same.

Sword Saint Isshin has a Hitler stache and I feel like his face looks close enough to a stylized Hitler or maybe I’m seeing things

what do you think the prosthetics are used for, dumbass.

Unique stuff that vendors stop selling appears at the offering box at the dilapidated temple at marked up price.

You get bits of lore by giving different sake to different people. Emma tells you how, as a child, a money saved her life. She was paralyzed on the battlefield and that monkey gave her a ball of rice which calmed her down and helped her immensely
The Sculptor then has a story of him helping out a little girl on the battlefield by sharing his riceball

Why did they think firecracker affecting basically every enemy in the game was a good idea? It makes everything else useless outside of a very few specific situations.

Why can't from use the cutscene model in game?

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Same one because Sekiro is literally retarded and didn't use the Mortal Blade the first time

>fight headless
>pop confetti
>slap his shit a bit
>he's not really hard but terror is building up better take some meds
>teleports behind you with an unblockable grab while undodgeable smoke is on you
>try and jump out but get thrown
>back off and heal
>teleports again
>jump away successfully
>go back on offense
>uh oh terror is starting to build up again ecksdee
>uh oh divine confetti fell off
>oops you died juggling all this shit
>also you only have enough materials for like 2 more tries lol
>oops you ran out of confetti
headlesses are fucking niggers

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how do people habe a problem with orin?
i beat her on my 2nd try

>meet the Tengu after Gyoubu fight
>he tells you to kill the ministry rats
>kill the midgets and report back
>he moves to the Serpent Shrine
>tells you there are many more rats to kill
>no midgets anywhere
>find some black phantoms in the Valley
>they're not the rats
>progress the story and he disappears
So, WERE there any ministry rats to kill at that stage?

you get the whistle from the fucking ape and the description says beasts can't tell friend from foe.
it isn't obscure. are you really playing this game and not reading descriptions?

19 hours and just beating Genichiro isn't normal dude, unless you literally walk everywhere and stare at everything for 10 seconds.

>"kill" genichiro
>he's standing right there
>for like a whole minute
>sekiro doesn't plunge his mortal blade right into him
>grandpa crawls out
sekiro is a fucking retard

It's so weird that they didn't just let us create a character when everything about Sekiro is incredibly generic and devoid of any personality other than the fact that Kuro spray painted the side of his head silver.

eh? is that the father surpassed ending?

>teleports behind you with an unblockable grab while undodgeable smoke is on you
Unlock the camera, TURN IT AROUND BEHIND YOUR character, when the headless spawns, he won't anal fist you, if you're looking at him. Slash away for free damage.
>terror is building up
See . Makes the Headless fight braindead easy.
Hold R2, block their combos, unleash the counter with R1 for massive damage to their health and posture.

Guardian Ape is on par with Ogre because his spine bends 280 degrees and wrecks you if you try to flank.

here
I finally beat ishinniger by doing the running strat and got the shit ending, fuck my life
for those who are still stuck do this
>Parry phase 1 on WoT, it's easy
>Parry phase 2, this is the hardest phase, lot of patterns
>Run phase 3 until he does the tracking slash attack that leaves him open for one charged R1, repeat
>Run phase 4 same as above
Honestly once you reach phase 3 it's won, you should be using most of your estus on phase 2 if you haven't learnt his patterns yet and choke hard.

It would feel pretty unsatisfying if it did absolutely nothing to someone, but it doesn’t do any damage since that’s covered by the flame vent, and firecrackers are a staple ninja tool
They should have just not had the flame vent, rolled it up into firecrackers, made them do a little bit of damage but the tradeoff being they don’t stun large or boss enemies
You can obviously just limit yourself too, but I think it’s less an issue of firecrackers and more the absurd posture damage you get from the free double Ichimongi after using them.
Having a shinobi tool to give you a second for a free heal is good, having a tool that lets you stunlock a boss or miniboss for a full bar of posture is not

is it worth working toward this?
where's a good place to farm money

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is it worth it to give Isshin any of the drinks? anything cool?

wait is reverse lighning supposed to be useful against isshin??? literally threw it nowhere while locked onto him. fucking terrible

He talks about how he wanted to Fuck Gen's master.

Ah yes the classic
>watch me as I transform or charge my power
of japanese media

Do any skills give you ways to get more spirit emblems other than the one that give + 1? I want to use my tools more often but I feel I run out way too much.

It's the purification ending

Drinks are lore only (as far as I know)

To be fair, the ‘hiding your grandfather’s entire body inside your own body’ move is a cheeky play

seems to me to be more of a ngplus prosthetic for when you don't have much to buy that you don't already have in ng. id buy it just to have it but phantom kunai is better until you have a lot of sen.

Is there a limit on how long you can wait before resurrect?

cute and poeticpilled

There are no rats, learn the final skill of his skill tree and go talk to him or Isshin

Japanese orchestral music is boring as balls, I miss Dark Souls/Bloodborne music.

Yeah I did that. I was just wondering if there was more to this questline.

to be fair it looked like genichiro was just killing himself for a second there.

sekiro is pretty funny because he's generic souls protag autism incarnate

>hey traveler whats your name
>can't say
>well whats your clan at least
>can't say
>oh you're one of those shinobi huh?
>can't say

so are there three endings right now?
snake heart ending with kuro
no snake hear ending with kuro
then siding with your dad?
I just got the basic kuro ending bc I did it blind didn't know I had to give him rice

>tmw you're so ugly a girl mistakes you for a monkey

garbage, I used cheat engine to test and have myself tremendous amount of cash, it does no damage

There seems to be only 6 Lapis Lazuli per playthrough, everything else can be farmed.

Yes. The screen fades to the full death screen, as should be apparent.

Who else enjoyed the dragon fight?

It's basically just a pisseasy gimmick fest but my lord the spectacle was fantastic.

Where does the black samurai go after sitting in front of the bottomless pit?

Someone does an edit "no way fag" with wolf and emma

the man is simply transferring his extermination mission to you. there will be more small guys and lone shadows to murder.

yeah it was kino

Same reason why DMC5 can't use their cutscene models in game.

>can't customize protag because apparently he matters in the game
>literally does not matter one bit, any custom character could have his backstory
sasuga from

Thought so.
What final upgrade(s) would you suggest to spend it on? I'm currently aiming for the blue flame, because I'm assuming with the final prosthetic skill you can get free confetti effect with it.
The shuriken also looks tempting, because shurikens are always good.

it was quite cool. when you get him to 20% health and the trees disappear its a fun 40 seconds of dodging and parrying.

Absolutely, just pure and simple fun
Also loved the MLGS reference

There’s four endings
No Sekiro You Are The Demons

No Sekiro You Are The Sculptor

Sekiro 2: Shota’s Adventures

I Was Reincarnated As A Mortal Fetus And Now My Ninja Wants To Take Me To China???!?!?

>there will be more small guys
Where?

there's one lazuli on the shichimen warlock in fountainhead and a few at the pot noble in the same area. where are the remaining three?

to be fair you can just stand here and press L1, watch all the attacks not break your posture as you stand still and eventually jump if he does a red one
that was a really dumb phase

>Savage
Monkey was his codename, just like Wolf/Owl/Butterfly

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eventually. not immediately. either way tengu does not need you to kill any more rats for extra stuff. the only other thing you can get from tengu is the mushin esoteric text which requires at least one ultimate skill from any other skill tree to be learned.

So what's the strat on monkey prime?

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Completing the Pot Noble/Great Carp quest and beating Demon of Hatred

>check out twitch
>these 4 retards showboating their knowledge about games
>still stuck on initial areas
who watches and follows such mongs?
twitch.tv/maximilian_dood

>mfw finished the game and still as knowledgable as a baby
maybe I should start reading skills and upgrade my arms one of these days

Do you mean more hat midgets with unique dialogue you can eavesdrop on? Or just regular midget enemies? I'm at the final area of the game already. Midgets at Senpou isn't a spoiler for me, if that's what you've trying to avoid saying.

what's the max number of charges your Healing Gourd can have? I finished the game with 7 charges but I feel like I missed a lot because I just stopped finding seeds like halfway through the game.

I went through other areas before finishing the castle. I honestly didn't realize there was still a boss there when I found him.

I only got the rice to give to Kuro after shit went down and I needed to get to the outskirts. Is it too late at this point or is there another chance to give him the rice? I'm at the Isshin boss fight right now.

i meant more midget enemies aligned with the ministry.

i got 9 but ended the game early with the bad ending

eh not really, he does matter in the story and has history with other characters.

>haha these guys are so bad
>that's why I'm giving them higher viewcount for free
>check it out! ;)
What the fuck is wrong with you zoomers?

Is it true you get locked out of 2 of the 40 prayer beads if you dont go after a certain ending?

is reverse lightning not supposed to hit your target? am i missing something?

yea

10
you can't give kuro the rice anymore but the rice is only good for a cute interaction between him and wolf as well as a unique rice ball consumable. it has no bearing on the ending. the snake visceras do.

Abandoned Dungeon

In the sense that they refer to him, such as the butterfly lady? As I said, you could replace him with any character and it would still make sense as he has no real name apart from Sekiro, which is given to him after the game starts.

Too bad they almost never do that move, instead electing to throw shurikens and shit. Annoying cunts.

If I ever build my own house, I want a door just like this one.

sheeeeeeet

>a cute interaction between him and wolf
FUCK THAT'S EVEN WORSE

GOD DAMN IT

Am I somehow at the end? Genichiro right?

no it wouldnt make sense for a random clown to walk in and know everyone

just accept its not an rpg and focus was put on everything else

Get closer, you have big range but not infinite except for the Dragon fight

If it's Genichiro on top of the castle, then no you are NOWHERE near the end.

If it's Genichiro in the grass field and he's shirtless, then yes you're at the end. Get ready for a big surprise when you beat him.

Genichiro is the 3rd boss in the game... it's like a quarter of the game.

So I never got how this works

Do you need to be directly beneath the target, or do you need to jump too or what?

Okay lads I'm at the crossroads now. Do I follow Owl or betray the shota? What's the route with the more fun bosses?

Obviously it wouldn't a random clown, your character could have a history regardless if you created their appearance or not. You're not writing their life story, just changing their appearance.

>on top of the castle
Alrighty then.

Has someone who has tested this shit, there is no parry spam. If you spam when an enemy is about to attack you have to get lucky to deflect the attack. Most of the time you'll block instead. The only time you'll be spamming is in the middle of an enemy's extremely fast combos

You need to learn the skill first.

The stealth is really bad and the way you navigate levels is unsatisfying and awkward

So there's two kinds of immortality in the lore?

One is having some centipede in you and the other is the divine blood one?

Be in the air somewhere near the target who is also in the air and the red marker will appear.

Do note that it only works for SOME air attacks, and not others. As an example, it doesn't work when the polearm bitch jumps up to throw shurikens but it DOES work when they jump up to spinning downslash.

you learn the skill from the little midget guy in the Ashina Grave

you just jump in the air with them and a deathblow marker will appear.

The centipede is the fake one.

But his relationship with Kuro is cute though.

yeah I'm close I spam and i still hit the ground dead, really FUCKING hard to do on the last boss, oh and he shoots you out of the sky when I do it too

if you follow owl you get two more bosses and the game is cut short. if you don't follow owl you get a longer game and some more bosses.

I didn't even think of using the blue flame in that aspect. That would be fucking crazy cool if so. I hate relying on consumables.

are you locked into purification ending? or is there a choice. I sitll wanna do all the eavesdropping etc but when to stop?

I know. I did.

Man I tried everything, but it's so tricky to get reliable jumping enemies to actually test this on

Thanks dudes, will keep trying

god i hate 4 phase fights. forces you to play atleast the first 2 perfectly. feels fucking terrible man

rejuvenating waters seems like code for bug infestation desu.

Good to know. I guess I'll follow dad in my second playthrough. Maybe play with the shield and mistraven prosthetic as well.

Well, it's not like I NEED confetti sword buff anymore, now that I learned how to cheese headless with the umbrella.

>tfw Bloodborne's Vermin was a Sekiro reference too.

I think I've been sleeping on the umbrella too much.

I bought the Shuriken, just seems to be a better upgrade to the normal shuriken line rather than anything special so if you like using them then go for it.

>fighting headless underwater

this is not fun, from. any tips on how to beat these fuckers?

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There is a choice at the very end whether you give Kuro the tears and everblossom or just the tears, so don't feel shy about doing all the prerequisites for Purification.

stab and block stab?

The underwater fights are easy mate. Just wail on him when he isn't trying to stick his hand up your ass.

It's a-fucking-mazing. Even if it only counters the apparition enemies. But it counters them REAL hard. And that's what the game is all about, is it not? There's always a specific way to kill someone for a shinobi.

i was just getting analblasted by the ones at Figurehead Temple cos there's two of them and while I'm trying to fight one the other one is shooting naruto energy waves at me

use confetti before you go under, zoom in, swipe a few times zoom out
about it

Has snake syndrome too
>constantly repeating wha people tell him in the form of a question

See . Hardly counts as a fight even.

How 2 cheese with umbrella? Never tried it on headless

I actually found it a lot more fun than the regular headless fight

Keep dodging, dodge-attack in during opening, or charge-attack for more damage/stagger during bigger openings (like grabs and spin)

what if you're doing 3 endings at once what happens then

How long does it take to click for you people? It took me 8-10 tries every boss and miniboss up until butterfly. I think the biggest click was with the ogre which i could nearly nohit but the drunken dood never clicked with me so i ended up cheesing him

That's more a characteristic of the japanese language than sekiro himself, and its reflected in dialog.

Can someone explain to a brainlet why the sculptor became the demon.

Oh, is that what fucking happened? Jesus, I'm dense. I was confused for the whole last part of the game. Looks like I'm the brainlet here.

Oh my god this so much
I always kept giving him the snake voice in my head

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Snake syndrome, huh?
Just block all of their combo, don't try to do the umbrella parry just yet.
When they finish their combo, release the umbrella attack for massive damage to their health and posture.
Repeat until they're low enough and parry them. Or just drain their HP to 0 for auto-posture break.
The confetti does help though, when they teleport, so you could do some free damage with your sword without using any emblems.

The umbrella's entire block-release sequence only costs 1 emblem too. It's stupid good.

There are 4 endings.
If you pick the evil ending the game ends early
If you pick either the purification or severance endings (severance is the games 'canon' and default if oyu just follow storyline) then you can choose between purification and severance at the end, assuming all the requirements for purification are met.
If you are attemping the Return ending and get all the prereqs done, it overrules any other ending.

when i realised i had to block just before the attack landed instead of immediately as the attack lands

my timing was just off by like 0.3 seconds and it was really fucking me over

butterfly and genichiro together made me realize the games potential and how it wanted me to play.

Wasn't it obvious? He disappears after the fight. And the demon didn't have a left arm.

Do you want the short simple explanation or the needlessly convoluted time-loop bullshit explanation?

I thought return ending was the one you could choose between and the default...

Hit me with a short and simple one user.

Wait a minute! You don't have a left arm either!

damn I didn't know the umbrella actually absorbed a string of attacks and released it

I never actually used it much and I thought it was just a parry on a super generous window.

one of the npc's mentions something about "all the hatred from the wars has to end up somewhere" so i assumed thats why the sculptor could only see fire

Like I said, I'm dense. But now that you mention it, he did talk an awful lot about being consumed by the fires of anger, or something. Reflected in his dolls. I guess he lost the fight, huh?

whatever is a more complete explanation. it has to do with what sculptor is shown by buddha i presume. sekiro is shown the sacking of horata and the sculptor sees ashina burning to cinder, which happens for real in the games final hours.

It says it "absorbs" attacks, but I don't think it actually does. The release is just that powerful on its own I think.
But more importantly you need the PURPLE umbrella for the headless, because it blocks chip damage from apparitions terror buildup alike. And the release has the confetti effect to it.

When he carves the statues he has visions of flames and fire.

lol I dont get high enough to ever reverse lightning onto isshin. the window is way too fucking tight are you serious?

first phase is like playing a souls game, dodging and staying out of his way, a few of his moves let you wail on him, so it shouldn't be too difficult but if you're in a bind firecrackers will bring him to a halt. for his second phase, instead of dodging/running around like you did in phase 1, grow a pair and deflect his sword attacks. there's one attack he frequently does where he flails his sword left to right and finishes with an overhead slam. if you deflect his overhead, he will be stunned for a few seconds and you can wail on him. another good opportunity for damage is when he does that jump and he flails around on the ground. other than that, watch out for his roar and it should be fine

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Sculptor is Sekiro. You see this is one of the endings, you become the Sculptor. We know Buddha can fuck with time since you go 3 years in the past to the Hirata estate, and he does this to presumably change your fate by making you serve different incarnations of yourself in different timelines. You (as the sculptor) become the Demon of Flames because you're pissed that you failed and killed so many for no good god damn reason and it becomes too much to bear after a while so you go nuts

I have been on the last fight for hours now, brother. Don't falter.

i assume it works the same as the standard umbrella does with normal projectiles i.e melee hits it blocks but ranged attacks power it up

funny, i interpreted that ending as sekiro simply filling sculptors spot to aid whoever comes to him next, not a time loop.

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guess I will save up my nippon dollars for the purple upgrade next. I've been meaning to go back and slay all those apparition and headless enemies -- do they drop Prayer Beads? I've just been kinda running from them.

>ranged attacks power it up
Oh, do they?
That would explain why it destroys Shcimen Warriors even faster than the Headless.

They're both missing the same arm bro

Terror enemies are the worst designed enemies in the game. Confetti barely lasts half a second, you need to pop 2-3 if you play aggressively per fight.
And if you die, get fucked, they're gone.
They should have made confetti available for sale earlier on, it's stupid.
I loved the concept idea of terror but the in game effect is just "lol instakill", which is lame as fuck.

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Honestly I don't remember if they drop the beads, but they drop infinite sugar items that cost emblems to use.

ISSHIN FINALLY DOWN I'M A GAMER, actually a really decent fight despite my bitching. Kinda spamming L1 a bit though in the spear phases. had to let my posture recover a few times.

>you cant do co-op or grind stats to get past things, you have to learn the games systems
>which is fine b-but the game's systems are b-b-bad

strong cope

Lmaoing at firecracker shinobilet.
Chad umbrella is the master race.

I think my favourite thing about Sekiro (aside from the game itself) are the shitters being exposed and being salty as fuck on the internet. You can't grind, use overpowered weapons or summon your buddies to gangbang bosses and now have to rely on just your own skill to beat bosses and it's great.

Literally a fucking lighting arrow from a bow
>a spell in dark souls
BUT
ITS
NOT
DARK
SOULS
SO
IT
WILL
BE
BAD
t. ds fanbabis

Who're the Headless that drops the bonus to stealth and bonus to posture damage sugars? I fucking love those sugars.

This is bullshit, Wolf isnt the sculptor. If you gave sakes to the sculptor it was clear that he trained with Owl along with a bunch of monkeys and was also known as the Monkey when he was a shinobi, he also found Emma and gave her to Genbu(forgot his name, the doctor who created the gourd). There NO mentions of serving a lord like Kuro at all in his dialogues.

but so are all of the lone shadow enemies. i don't presume a connection there between sekiro and this enemy type. i buy your theory, im just saying its not the first thing that came to mind.

Stealth is in lost woods, posture is underwater fountainhead iirc.

I don't know if it's just bad timing, but when I try to use lightning reversal against the fishdogs I land on the ground and get shocked before the counter hits them.

So what? All the purple dudes in the game also miss their left arm.

So does NG+ make enemies stronger, or is it only if you give Kuro's charm back to him?

Yeah The Sculptor is a parallel to Sekiro but he isn't Sekiro. Sekiro taking his role in one of the endings doesn't mean there's time travel involved..

If you give Kuro his charm the game makes you take quite a bit of chip damage from non-perfect blocks.

right, but if you don't do that does NG+ have a higher base difficulty than first playthrough, enemy health/attack wise?

Yes.