Defeated by my own son? The feeling is not entirely unpleasant

>Defeated by my own son? The feeling is not entirely unpleasant...
Gosh darn it, old man. Why did you have to be such an asshole.

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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Suriagehara
deadline.com/2019/06/age-of-samurai-netflix-cream-1202620459/
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What is it with jap games and killing your father/mentor figure??

>he doesn't hate his father

Killing the father is a big thing in psychology, not just in Japan

>Fellated by my own son? The feeling is not entirely unpleasant

It's a shame that there wasn´t a mother figure in sekiro, oedipus souls when?

It took me less tries than I thought it would. The biggest thing for me to overcome was that fucking owl on his second phase. It was so distracting. It took me a while to figure out what it did.

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>That's... my boy...

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>Kuro
>no mother figure

you have some weird fuckin' ideas about Wolf and Kuro's relationship

i have the reaction time of a potato and i was able to finish it charmless
it's not about reaction time, it's about pattern recognition

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Name 5 sons that killed their fathers in a way as lovingly as Wolf/Owl.

Oh thank god.

Did you realize you're the responsable for Ashina's demise? In 24 hours you destroyed all their millitary power.

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Ashina was doomed either way. Either they don't get Dragon's Blood and get shitstomped, or they do and create a legion of immortal soldiers that drains the life out of the world leaving them kings of the ashes.

I mean ashina was fucked either way seeing as they were up against the entire rest of the country.

I don't know if Japan was fully unified during late Sengoku but I feel a lot of provinces were struggling for independence at the time.

What would you rather be, an immortal king with no kingdom or a dead man?

Where does this idea that Genichiro wanted to make his /entire/ army immortal? He just wanted to make himself immortal.

a king with no kingdom is just some asshole with delusions of grandeur

If 2 persons of the immortal oath reproduce, is the offspring blessed as well?

I still don't understand why Isshin did not give a single fuck about Ashina. He did not participate in the schemes of his grandson. It is very weird.

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he's in his "fuck off I'm old" phase of life

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>Death of a Shadow

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I did this too. I don't know the height of Sekiro but how big can be Owl. He is the absolute unit for shinobis.

imagine trying to infiltrate anywhere when you're 9ft tall

He created his kingdom because the opportunity was there but never gave a rats ass about anything except fighting.

imagine how good a ninja you have to be to infiltrate anywhere when you're 9 feet tall

>no DLC where you can play as young Owl

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I feel Isshin suffered the Baratheon Syndrome. The dude reached the peak because he defeated the strongest warrior of Tamura's kratocracy, but once he did it, he inherited the position as well and suddenly life it's a burocratic job administrating a whole territory.

Now I realized that the spear SS Isshin use during the last fight is probably Tamura's

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Shinobis were more close to special forces like Green Berets, Spetnaz and SAS rather than infiltration only agents. I mean, stealth and operations behind enemy lines were a thing, just like espionage, (it seems that they they disguised themselves as monks and peasants) but there must be a bigger shinobi cake.

Isshin gave it to Gyoubu and then used it in the final fight. He probably took it from his dead body. Maybe that's why he likes Sekiro. Seeing someone taking down someone as strong as Gyoubu is very impressive.

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Isshin is basically just a Nobunaga expy, right?

You don't need to sneak if you just kill every guard standing in your way. I imagine Owl infiltrates using the same method I do when I play MGS games, which is try to stealth kill my way through the level and then just go loud whenever I inevitably get caught

More like Date Masamune desu

>beat Father Owl in less tries than Shinobi Owl
>beat Isshin in five tries

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>replay game
>beat all bosses 1st try
>still have difficulty against Headless and Shishimen

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Owl being a slimy asshole is precisely why he's the best character in Sekiro

>uses every dirty trick in the book when fighting you
Now that's the stuff

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I like the story of Gyobu. It is material for a Kurosawa movie about Bushido.

>former bandit leader is loyal to the man who defeated him

Also loli version.

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Curse, Frenzy and Panic will never ever ever be good mechanics under any metric
change my mind

it's inspired from a real person

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benkei

his death is epic

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I like to think Isshin represents a whole age ending more than a pastiche of Nobunaga. Think about the way he dies in Immortal Severance ending. I hate that ending but I recognize it is the most japanese thing in existence.

The best way to play this game is to install Boss Rush mod and Enjoy the actual good fights. Everything else is redundant fluff

>he doesnt want his death to be at the hands of his son, showing that you have created a being that has surpassed you in every way

If your son can't kill you you've failed

I like the exploration

This is just amazing, thanks a lot user. I wonder how much things I lost in the experience of this game because I'm not from the east. Sakura Dragon cryptic fight mechanics are intentional and I have the feeling was done with something in mind.

user suggested for example, that fountainhead palace it is a metaphor for the Heinan period decadency, that's why the nobles are a joke.

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Owl is pure trickery. Even when I beated him I awaited for a surprise resurrection.

The Japanese VA and Reinhardt VA nailed to perfection the character.

How the fuck do you reach the treasures in the highest buddhas in Ashina Depth?

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>exploration
Theres nothing worthwhile to explore tho? Especially after the first run

grenade jump

that's my biggest gripe with the game, but I still enjoy the act of exploring

I wish a DLC would fix that, but it is ok if never happens. This is my first game with multiple endings and the game itself for me is perfect and complete.

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>father as a boss
>mentor as a boss
>god as a boss

Japan has fucking daddy issues

Shouldn't have stood between me and my boycunny

I'll be a ashen king sure but i don´t want any gross centipedes in me

why is there so many monk lady hentai?

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>subverts your country from the shadows
Man if i was in charge of the interior ministry i'd have so much fun sending these guys to go kick the shit out of rebels too

then they run into some one-armed autist who repeatedly stomps on their knees

>free Hanbei
>a very strong emotional moment
>Suddenly Sekiro expels eight meters of insect from his body
I wonder what was the relationship of Hanbei with the degenerates from Senpo Temple.

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>the rescue of a boycunny basically destroyed a whole japanese province
Can relate.

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The fucking leg mikiri will never not look hilarious to me

>Beat him first try because I was hyped by the fight
>Lost at least twice on every other playthrough
lol

Any tips for killing the Demon of Hatred? I recently came back to Sekiro and even though the fight itself is not really THAT hard, the faggot has way too much health.
I have figured out I have to stick to his balls but the fire attacks keep wrecking me.

Use the fire shield to block that shit.

You can cheese most of phase 3 with that whistle tool but otherwise I don't really have a tip other than staying close. I found the fire umbrella to be kind of useless most of the time because you don't really need it when you stay close where you are supposed to dodge and counter attack anyway. Could be good in phase 3 when he goes crazy and his fire attacks get 100 miles of range

>dude is a selfish dick and fights like a coward
>still proud of you for beating him
based

she's a funny lady

Maybe john sekiro went shura because he was sick of being a manlet

still dont know if sekiro was a 3 feet manlet or everyone else was just 10+ feet.

Which one. If you mean the projectile just run at him while going slightly to the side.

Hollow Knight's Path of Pain, this game's charmless run and Furi's final boss are my biggest accomplishments in vidya.

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never did beat charmless myself. fuckin owl 1 raped my asshole. turned off charmless and destroyed him. fuck that felt good

I really felt tempted to turn it off on the double monkey fight but I bruteforced my way through it in the end by spamming firecrackers on that brown ape. Fuck that boss.

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It's part of their complex of having a little dick. They need to kill their fathers so they have the biggest of the little dicks.

MY NAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAME

Enjoy, V

mangarock.com/manga/mrs-serie-200075822/

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Every Souls game is like this.

Monk's lore is based on this.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ningyo

SONATA NADO MADA MADA KOINU YO

I don't even speak Japanese but this sentence burned itself into my brain

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PAN PANRANPAN
PAN PANRANPAN

I watched some episodes of Gakuen Babysitters just because both characters share the same voice actress.

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>boycunny
Just added this to filters. I never want to see it again.

>I'm just a guy who's an undying ninja for fun

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I suffer 100 counters, 100 vault-overs, 100 deathblows, and 10,000 spirit emblems worth of combat skills. Every single day

>Demon of Hatred's aggro animation is a kabuki pose meant to express the character's fury

I love when some random idiot thing I learned 5 years ago crops up in my life

>taste the monkey, is very good

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I really want to know what are this characters after fighting shura. I wonder if both are related.

youtube.com/watch?v=jWSw-Jj5L-0

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where was the second immortal blade?

owl 2 was by far the hardest fight for me, sword saint was a breeze in comparison

I believe it was engineered by the degenerates in Senpo Temple. They and the Ashina clan (mostly Genichiro, considering Isshin hated them) had some kind of deal running.

More importantly, how the fuck did Tomoe kill herself without the red mortal blade? Even if she had the black one, it can't be used to kill immortal beings. It's power is to open a gate to the underworld.

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thanks bros, I think I can get by without the shield but the whistle trick is really useful. And yeah, it is the fucking fireballs, they're too fast. Also, I feel it's easier to fight him without lock on, thanks, this is the most fun I've had with a boss in Sekiro

hell know, are you smoking? The only thing Owl has going for him in his second fight is the health pool and posture.

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Is Tomoe explained in some specific route of the game? Some anons believed she is the sleeping girl in fountainhead.

no*
oops

Not really, no.

>the REIGNING CHAMPION shows up out of nowhere

That was a good read

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FROM bosses are psychological and style tests for the players. None is more difficult that other, I died 80+ with Shura but 30+ with SS. It seems somebody study types of players and then they refine the bosses.

Honestly I had more trouble with the first Ashina Spears boss than anything up until the Demon but that's because I was still in the process of getting gud. When I fought his big brother at the end, and when I fought him again in NG+, I was kind of stunned at how much easier it felt.

why is every enemy npc so fucking UGLY?

>tfw no ultra secret variation of the guardian ape fight where as you try to cut his head off, he shoves you off, manually pulls the sword out of his neck and goes full ninja on your ass while two handing it

Sengoku Jidai was hard on a nigga's complexion

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I think they were designed this way to make a strong contrast with Kuro's moral integrity, immersed in a world full of brutality and the wolf protecting him.

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the curse of u̶n̶d̶e̶a̶t̶h̶ Rejuvenating Waters

The monkey didn't know how to use the sword.

The centipede did.

When did you realize Genichiro is the good guy and Wolf is actually the bad guy

I just want to share this with my Yea Forumsros.

>made in 1941
>the intro speaks about the Greater Asia japanese project of the time

youtube.com/watch?v=KiCWrDMZZFk

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heresy

I don't know if he is the good guy, but damn that dude really really loved his land.

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It's a narrative device symbolizing surpassing everything that they are to become something more. It's used in fiction all the time and it's not even particularly subtle.

B-but what about those dual wielding niggas in the poison swamp? Monkeys can definitely use swords

Some do, yes. But pay attention to the big guy's movements once you decapitate him. There's a reason the body seems to jerk around in a slithering motion

Neither are bad guys.
Genichiro doesn't want his people to be subsumed and destroyed by the ministry.
Wolf is defending his master and by extension removing a horrific and corrupting big of magic from the world.

Chanbara time?
youtube.com/watch?v=UkkF6Zz67TE

So fucking based

plus, the Sculptor had a sparring friend who was a monkey

>the monkey was a robot for the centipede

I just finished the manga of Hanbei and I must say is very good and they would make more spin-off about him and other characters. Even the end implies they want to make more of them.

I thought the Sculptor was the monkey

Kingfisher wasn't a monkey, dumbass.

For some reason monkeys are a big topic in Sekiro.

>monkeys can use swords in excellent ways, even better that bandits and foot soldiers
>monkeys can be weaponized and they can also use firearms
>big monkey is cursed with immortality and he is alone because his girlfriend died
>he has a good ape friend tho
>the codename for Sculptor was Orangutan
youtube.com/watch?v=QWICuXv14cE
>he had a best friend (male or female) and both trained in monkey valley during youth
>shura looks like an orangutan from hell
>in late game, the monkeys leave the valley with armament and clearly begin to occupy territory near the castle is it a metaphor of some sort?

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I think the Greeks just like killin' shit period.

nah, they never show him. some people even say it was a girl. i believe it was an actual monkey

they are mentally castrated, a psychistrist would explain this in a better way.

This moment is simply amazing. It seems the highly pressured blood from this scene serves as inspiration for the blood in the game.

You could probably beat it without Ritalin but on Ritalin you'll be somewhat of a god I'm guessing.

It was a girl, tho. Give the sculptor the Monkey Booze and you'll see.

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He doesn't have to sneak. Imagine Owl going up against a traditional unit of samurai. Considering his moveset and how he swings that fucking sword he'd have them all dismembered in minutes.

killing your father is one of the basic communist ideals for the youth.

how do you think the big lear forward in china happened?

do some research before you start praising genocide ideologies

>they never show him.
her

Demon of Hatred wasn't truly a "shura" I don't think. But he looked like an orangutan because, if you haven't figured it out, he was the sculptor

Also don't forget the "no evil" patterned monkeys guarding the Child of Rejuvenation at Senpou

You went after him pretty hard considering what he said was a pretty general statement.
It's pretty easy to understand where he's coming from. Killing a father figure in a game where a player is invested is a huge thing for the player.

do not take ritalin, retards. that shit is very dangerous to your health and it makes you depressed
i almost killed myself using this shit and i had terrible headaches

look up it's side effects and also who invented this shit before using something like that in such a dumb way

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Not him, but there's a clear parallelism between the guardian ape love story and the sculptor friendship story, but this is never explained taking into account that the loss of his friend clearly causes him pain and he never speaks of it more than when you give him the monkey booze.

Or the fact that he had actual magic on his side.

Shinobi were mostly just mercenaries

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what about a monkey girl? a shinobi monkey girl is fine by me

I know. I've done it once and cleaned my room for a couple hours. Only time I've ever considered doing it. I see how it's useful but the mind becomes hooked on it very fast.

He's actually only 6ft tall, it's just that everybody in Japan is a manlet

ritalin is basically cocaine

you have zero evidence to back this up

Does Sekiro take place in the Dark Souls universe?

I've read it was a complete accident but Kurosawa decided to roll with it.

Anyway here's Mifune killing Tatsuya Nakadai some more

youtube.com/watch?v=zCjsazHO0c0

If you give the sculptor monkey booze he tells you about how he and his partner trained in the mountains like the monkeys did, and he says "she"

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Sekiro takes place in literal Japan, so no

It's explicitly was a girl according to the description on the whistle. Also implied the big ass sword in Great Ape's neck was hers. Theres zero reason for them to be a monkey. The Monkey's aren't that smart.

No but Bloodborne is Dark Souls' future

:(
That wasn't very speculative.

Is it really?
I'm fucking stupid and bought an Xbone so I don't get to play the good games.
I dream about playing Bloodborne.

He was pretty clearly a Shura. Why would you think otherwise? He was an unstoppable monster of hatred for anyone it saw, and he had no control over his actions.

Why was Ashina being attacked by the rest of japan anyway?

what does that have to do with anything? Killing/overcoming the father is just a concept observed in fiction and psychology all over the world. Oedipus has been mentioned previously in this thread, but it appears across centuries and in all genres. It's the central plot theme of Star Wars for fuck's sake.

>Ashina is crushed
>Sekiro and Divine Child begin their journey to the west for reviving Kuro
>tfw pic related stands in their way

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"like monkeys" doesn't mean they were literally monkeys.

>mfw this post

Slow your fucking roll, Geppetto.

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I didn't say she was a monkey. She's human.

No, he says they trained together in the valley, where any misstep could result in death. That they both learned to move like the monkeys did. a statement that naturally implies she wasn't a fucking monkey because she had to learn how to move in the valley as effectively as a monkey.

before I got to him, user posted him in a thread and I realized who he was by the beard. I wonder to this day if he gave up to the hatred or he tried to protect Ashina from the ministry.
And how much people do you have to kill to acumulate such power? I don't know what caused his final demise. Was the spirit of the people who killed, was it guilt? Was an gigantic "Karmic debt" whatever that is, was bloodlust?
Or
He served under Takeru and he had to fulfill his lord's desire to free himself from immortality just like wolf did in the Immortality Severance end?

For some reason I feel empathy for the character. I liked a lot.

Here's an interesting analysis of some things in the game. Very good.
twitter.com/richmond_lee/status/1038524706977021952

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I'm perfectly willing to believe
>i believe it was an actual monkey
wasn't you, but why respond to the post saying that's dumb by trying to argue for it?

>be Ashina
>use dark magic and have access to the fountain of youth
>threaten the stability of the entire nation

Any national leader with sense would do their best to end this shit before it became uncontrollable.

Hell, he may have been I just say that because losing his arm was supposed to stop him from being a Shura, and because in the relevant ending, Wolf isn't seen to transform, he just seems to take pleasure in killing. Sculptor seems to have fallen victim to a preoccupation with wrath and fire and doesn't even have to kill anyone to trigger it; just kind of happens when the Ministry invades.

Also I noticed something on my last playthrough. In the middle of the fireballs he throws you can just make out the angry Buddhas he carves, if you look closely.

>killing your father is one of the basic communist ideals for the youth.
You're american, are you?

Literally inevitable due to age lol

I support this user beyond the communist theory about killing the father figure. Oedipus Rex was written on an ancient democratic system.

Watch it here youtube.com/watch?v=TonLOAkc1OY
The characters actually looks like made by FROM lmao.

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Daily reminder that based Date Masamune is the one who crushed Ashina clan in RL
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Suriagehara

It takes place near the end of the Sengoku Era where the Shogunate is trying to consolidate total power over the entirety of Japan. It can't tolerate a sole Clan and Province resisting Imperial rule, it would result in additional rebellion against the authority of the Shogun. Also the temptation of eternal life is probably something they want to look into.

Holy shit what is that painting about.

...

Everyone fought everyone during the Sengoku era. Sometimes just because they thought they could win. Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin just started fighting each other out of habit.

Don't be a weak bitch when you're 60

Optimal for a fight to the death

>Ministry managed to cause such havoc is such a small amount of time because Wolf kept killing the Ashina leadership

What a insightful thread. As expected from Sekiro chads.

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I'm pretty sure it's implied in the game that this is during the ending days of the Sengoku Jidai era. Most of the famous warlords and generals of the era are dead and it's just the Tokugawa and Ieyasu cleaning up stragglers like Ashina. Ashina only survived because they had Isshin Ashina who was apparently a one-man army and did whatever to ensure their victory. So when Isshin is literally killed along with his missing son, the Interior Ministry saw the perfect opportunity to attack and conquer Ashina once and for all.

Literally stop hesitating to win the game.
Literally.

Masamune is getting a Netflix series at some point. Hope it doesn't suck but I'll still watch if it does.

deadline.com/2019/06/age-of-samurai-netflix-cream-1202620459/

>In the middle of the fireballs he throws you can just make out the angry Buddhas he carves, if you look closely.
Holy shit, so that was those things. It all makes sense now.

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based

>Netflix
Is Date Masamune going to be played by a gay mulatto American? Will his wife Megohime be played by a black woman with nappy hair?

I was literally on my last playthrough to get the last ending to FINALLY platinum the game when I noticed, and I fought him on every NG except, obviously, the one where I got the Shura ending

>the Tokugawa and Ieyasu
user...

Why do you even have to fight Isshin? He seems if not supportive then at least indifferent to your goals.

ritalin is the closest thing to meth that a doctor can legally prescribe

the giant skeleton are Gashadokuro, a yokai born from the corpses of people who died of starvation, they're running from it before it eats them

>boss is at 5hp
>so are you
>no healing items, no sugar, nothing
>you've been trying to beat it for 4 hours straight
Post your face when both of you attack at the same exact time.

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No, ashina is just a shithole of a clan who was merely surviving for most of its history and barely did anything worth of note. Its just in feudal times no one bothered with it cuz mountains, too much fuckery for very little profit, unification though is another story.

This moment was so sad.

What is the deal with fountainhead? It was some kind of hedonistic palace of sorts? The the mutations/hybridations suffered by its inhabitants leaves much to speculation. The meaning of it is very strange considering how the nobles literally feed on youth almost like vampires. I believe very much in the idea that this place represents decency and aristocratic excess.

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his grandson killed himself so he could fight you.
do you think he will waste his kid's life? + he is reborn at his peak so he gets to fight more people

>Remembering in my panic that I still have Jinzaemon's love child I can sacrifice to get a rez back.

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The stabbing lady was the most heavy metal shit I've seen in a while.

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because shit looking what a fucking badass you are, would suck to die like a bitch as an old man without fighting you

It's very ambiguous. On the one hand, Isshin is returned to the world of the living by Genichiro and apparently, such an invocation has the ability that the invoked fulfills the wishes of who calls him, so Isshin is forced to fight with Sekiro.

On the other hand, what need does he have to do it? If Genichiro invokes Isshin, he does it to "save" Ashina and preserve the prevailing political system, not to kill Wolf, who only wants to save his lord. Could it be that Isshin just wants one more fight?

I have like 30 of those things because I never found a good opportunity to use it. "The next fight is gonna be harder, better save it." But the right time never came. I'm 86 hours in now.

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In the Japanese audio they call it "Minamoto" which literally means "spring" or "source" and was also the name of the first family of Shoguns. All the architecture and armor is from a time when the Minamoto first rose to power, about 400 years before the game takes place. I don't know if this is related to the noble's obsession with youth or if it has anything to do with recapturing/prolonging their old power structures but knowing all that going in made my pee-pee tingle when I got there

Nobody cares about your meme game

>story taht's all just a memory
>father betrays you and revealed as the antagonist (wow didn't see that coming)
>prosthetic takes ammo yet cant increase the ammo you can hold by a decent amount
>sengoku era yet no gun prosthetic
>bugs out of nowhere

I have noticed something, hunger is a very strong topic in Japanese works. Without going any further, wolf itself has a history of abandonment and hunger.

>when you live a life surrounded by starvation at such level that is normal for you to eat the thing just raw

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Omnyoji Samurai rescue a Princess from the hands of Gashadokuro aka Skeleton Yokai

I believe those beings are responsible for the apparition of intelligent life on earth, or at least, in Japan. They probably see humans the same way humans see monkeys or cattle, but there were probably some of them interested in teaching stuff to humans, such as Lady Tomoe

Was Takeru and Tomoe both from the Divine realm? If so, where the fuck does Kuro come from? Pretty sure he has no Idea about what the divine realm looks like.

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The jumps old Sekiro makes are one of the best animations I've ever seen in a video game. The fact that he uses his sword like a cane is the most folkloric thing I've ever seen.

Tomoe was a Yokai warrior woman. Takeru was of the divine heritage like Kuro.

Owl is so cool. He became my role model. I'm not scared of being a piece of shit anymore.

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sauce on isshin ashine irl, you cant find anything now that sekiro has popularized him

what a beautiful piece of artwork

Now that you explain this, the game clearly has a subtext about fear or resistance to change.

>fountainhead palace it is the remains of an ancient order that resists dying even when there are only a few remains of it where its inhabitants spend the day dancing and playing soccer who knows for how many centuries.
>Ashina struggles against the new order, a unified and centralised system
>Genichiro abandons his humanity seeking to preserve and defend its system of existence

all of this making it clear that preserving oneself for eternity is not an impossible task in the game universe. You can really be immortal if this is what you want, but stories like the Guardian Ape or Hanbei say that maybe it is not right or it is not necessary to live forever, and at the end of the day, being immortal don't have to ensure happiness.

>guardian ape is condemned to live alone forever without his partner
>Hanbei always felt guilty that he couldn't die with his lord.

Kuro sees the consequences of people seeking power, the divine blood and the seeking of eternal preservation and in general, power. He is the person who sees immortality or the eternal being as something that corrupts the human heart and even when he is enjoying at full the benefits, he is against it because death is a natural process of existence that allows rest and renewal of life and cancelling it brings more misery than benefits.

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>mfw i realize wolf is carrying the red and black mortal blade on his back

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Purification is the best ending

Can you have the four endings in the same save file?

Why is he so big anyways

yea

>Jap games
Bitch it's a staple of storytelling

This is your brain on /pol/

that is not unique to jap stories.

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>that teleport behind you moment
Emma is a fucking weeb.

Owl Father raped me at least 40 times. Way harder than his first form.

>we won’t ever get any dlc or a sequel

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Yeah, right...

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Harder than his first form, yeah, but harder than SS Isshin?

Are you telling me you died more than 3 times?

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I made it to him, realized how difficult the fight would be, and played something else. Was gonna get back to it. That was months ago. I am screwed, so rusty and about to fight the hardest boss. I may never finish Sekiro.

maybe

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Owl fights are a little bit different from other human boss fights in my opinion. He simply moves very quickly which leave you little time to build posture or damage his health. Owl is pretty much the only boss where it'd be better to dodge and punish rather than deflecting. I also found Ichimonji to be useful since most of his attacks rape your posture very quickly. Isshin fight is fairly straightforward but still extremely fun. He still has superpoise in some of his attacks though, which makes 'hesitation is defeat' kind of risky.

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