I would like to farm a little EXP points before this nigger I just met. What spot will be nice ?

It literally is, anything else is a mini-boss. You could potentially fight granny butterfly first, but that's an optional area.

The room before lady butterfly, just go backwards. Six guys infront of the house, two off on the side, eight across the pond.

whens boss rush mode

You want to farm xp before you fight the boss that gives the item that even lets you spend xp?

You jump from the branch and grab a ledge

Question about NPC questlines
It looks like I won't be able to do any NPC questlines because I die too much and the droplets are a limited item. Do they give you any actual good items or is it stuff you can mostly get elsewhere?

There's already one in the game, it's called NG+ (and onwards), where you basically rush bosses to see the other endings (without kuro's charm if you're a man)

Quests give you skills or increase shop selection

There are like what, 20 droplets? Try to kill as many bosses as you can everytime you get dragonrot

Just get the grapplehook attack.
He's a total joke.

Oh OK. I already fought the kusobaba

Dodge literally DOES have i-frames.

Anything majorly unique though?
A good chunk of my death just come from basic enemies. I suppose I could start sprinting back to the sculptor's idol everytime I die+resurrect, although my progress in the game would slow down so much at that point I think I might lose my patience with it

What about Chained Ogre?

Outside of later stuff, the thief near the ogre will sell scrap iron for prosthetic upgrades, but you need to get behind the castle to finish his quest.

>Just stop playing the game
I hate giving up on games though, especially if it's just because I find them too hard

i already forgot the item what was it?

You don't need to sprint, just use the homeward idol

what do I do with the snake parts? And where is the person that wants the treasure carp scales?

he's literally the first boss..

True, same thing either way since levels are so short in this game. The real problem I have with doing that is that it'll cut my already snail-like progression rate in half.

This. If you're loosing against a boss and don't want to die (the idol takes too much time to be used during a fight) just exit the game from the options menu. You'll be before the boss when you reload and you can use the idol safely

The snake parts are required for a questline that leads to one of the endings. There are two carp scales guy, one in hirata's mansion, the other one in one of the last zones of the game

it should be divine confetti

i'm about to head back to the wedding stone to get the dragon tears. Do I go there and continue on and the snake parts become relevant? or do I need to show them to someone before I go.

This guy is the first enemy that forced me to understand the playstyle of Sekiro. If you run in and circle around, he can sweep you. If you try to footsie him with charge stabs, he can simply ride away and prolong the fight. Leave him alone when he's drifting and he'll follow up with even more attacks.
The key is to stay on his ass at all times, and figure out his attack patterns. Don't let up on him for even a second. Parry all his attacks and follow up with your own swings during his recovery animations and always grapple when possible. He always does a sideswing when you grapple him, and it always leads into a combo hit which you can parry easily.
If you need to farm up to beat this guy, then you're going to have trouble with many bosses down the line. Learn how the game wants you to play and don't be afraid to take attacks head on like in the souls series. Dodging will only get you so far in this game.

What's his name again?

Levels aren't short, it's just that FROM rehashed content a bit too much here, there are literally copypasted minibosses

You can go on, let's say that the point of no return is a particular electrifying aerial fight (and, before that, the first diverging path is the
Owl)

By "short levels" I just meant you don't have to run far to get to a sculptor's idol since they're always right around the corner

What do

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>farming
For what? You can't spend xp on health and attack power.

>A good chunk of my death just come from basic enemies
That's quite unusual, most enemies are pretty weak. Unless you're fighting the fatties, in which case just walk around them.

Well I'm quite unusually bad, the jumping spear guys in the temple in particular totally stopped my progress through that area. The blue katana guys in the castle also fucked me pretty good, I had to just run past them all to get to the mini-boss at the dojo sculptor's idol

what do the mask fragments do?

>The blue katana guys in the castle also fucked me pretty good
They're a great opportunity to practice sword skills if you can get them in one on one fights since their moves are telegraphed and they've got a thrust to practice mikiri on.

The only thing to watch out for is that they hesitate a few seconds from the moment they look like they're going to attack to when they actually do.

Collect them all and you can dump skill points into attack power, not that I've tried it

I feel like axe and flame are pretty gimmicky. The axe is just a slightly stronger axe that also functions as a snap seed (but also takes 1 more emblem than the non-fire axe it's upgrading). At this point you can just buy snap seeds, and only a handful of things even care about them. Flame does damage to apparitions (but doesn't light shit on fire anymore) and can be coupled with a skill to apply the confetti buff to your weapon, but again, at this point you can just buy confetti and apparitions have long stopped being a threat.

Shuriken are Sabimaru are essentially just raw upgrades over their previous versions, rather than adding gimmicky effects. Shuriken does more damage and still chips when blocked, and Sabimaru ups poison proc by a ton making it much more capable of landing the status. That said, I basically never used the thing. I'd say go with the Shuriken for sure and then pick whatever gimmick you like most.

Yeah that's the thing that was really getting me with them, since they mix in two different types of needed defense (deflecting and mikiri counter) I get destroyed in seconds because I don't have the reaction skills to switch between the two

I think the thrust is their only unblockable, so you can use the counter every time you see the icon appear.

Did you beat the miniboss?

At the dojo? Eventually yes, by spamming dodge. Sheer luck seems to be the only way I've been getting places in this game.

Whatever gets results, I guess. Some minibosses have a fairly small moveset so they're easy to react to. Others like Seven Spears can pull out any bullshit they want, which is probably why they're so challenging.

Can anyone tell me if the unblockable attack Snake Eyes uses where you get snared by the gun is a grab or a thrust?

After Genichibro should I go to sunken, depths or temple first?

You do have to farm certain items because they're not sold anywhere. Like for example oil, snap seeds or confetti.

The guy before Gyobu with his dead horse talks about his horse getting startled or something.
Is this a tip on how to btfo the horse during Gyobu fight? I killed him without gimmicks, but just curious because it lingers in my mind still.

>Seven Spears
>challenging
Why do people keep saying this?
It really is just simon says: the boss fight.

>person that wants the treasure carp scales
In a barrel on the rocks in the lake at the start of Hirata Estate.

It's a mini-boss

If you don't get a memory from fighting it, and/or you can leave the arena any time you want, it's a mini-boss

Yeah, you can buy firecrackers from the crow mob around the first miniboss. They're OP as fuck

>simon says: the boss fight
That's how any action boss fight works
Seven spears is just really hard because he's fast and doesn't give you a lot of time to react
Yeah although I'm worried I'll get to a point where I literally won't be able to progress any more since everyone seems to say "dodging is useless in this game, you need to deflect everything"

Yes

He has a big moveset and high stats for when you'll encounter him. If you don't have shinobi eyes you won't do him enough posture damage with mikiri to win

Because I cannot fucking time the mikiri correctly