Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (From Software)

So been running with the demon bell on, pretty sure it adds ethereal bosses like the dude beyond the abandoned cave in the elevator room.

Noodleface said:

As has been said, your sons playstyle is the best playstyle to succeed at this game. Stealth is great to mix in too though.

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The blood fog is great too, can backstab multiple dudes. Great against the big guys you sometimes can't sneak up on. Especially in that village...oh that village. That is some fuckery.

Ha

I may go nuts and just run around like a mad man for a bit to try this method out, sesems to go against From Software gameplay style, but it seems to have rewards.... we shall see.

Elajjaz has been running it already, he has some dirty shit for some bosses lol

Very cool Choices in conversations and consequenses guide.
Sekiro Shadows Die Twice Choices And Consequences Guide

I kind of felt the same about not having the wide variety of weapons to choose from, but the proshetic and the skills themselves kind of filled that gap for me at least

I am having a great time but God of War is still the best action game out there, it is so fucking good. Going to dive back into bloodborne soon I wonder if it will feel slow as fuck.

Making decent progress in this, about 2-3 hours played and I’ve got the shuriken / flame vent / axe prosthetics and have killed the General guy (backstab cheesed an orb from him but was under leveled so felt alright lol), the Shinobi hunter spear guy and have unlocked the path to Drunkard. Game is definitely, absolutely hard as fuck. I’ve been reading everything and practicing patience and not playin this with Soulsborne in mind and it pays off, I’ve really only died on bosses or mini bosses with the only exception to getting swarmed trying to run past shit and falling to my death etc.

It feels like this game just winds on and on, it’s less clear where to go and where I’ve been once you just keep killing and moving - I’ve tried to explore every single nook and cranny but it’s impossible to feel like I’m not missing something, somewhere. I think I’ve done decently so far as I have a good amount of items and things, but definitely going to have to decide wether to play this game slowly step by step or just fly through and kill and find stuff later or on another play through.

Kind of overwhelming at first but unlocking more skills and combat arts etc is a welcome change of pace once you’re comfortable with all the basics, and start to hunger for more options and things to do.

Loving it so far, absolutely fucking gorgeous and definitely maintains a pretty heavy handed Souls like feel. I desperately wish this game did include the RPG elements, but oh well. Pretty much every other facet of classic Souls style games is present, and introduces some other interesting ones. Grappling hook and jumping is well done and lots of fun, leads to interesting gameplay as well.

Fuck this game is hard.

eXarc said:

Making decent progress in this, about 2-3 hours played and I’ve got the shuriken / flame vent / axe prosthetics and have killed the General guy (backstab cheesed an orb from him but was under leveled so felt alright lol), the Shinobi hunter spear guy and have unlocked the path to Drunkard. Game is definitely, absolutely hard as fuck. I’ve been reading everything and practicing patience and not playin this with Soulsborne in mind and it pays off, I’ve really only died on bosses or mini bosses with the only exception to getting swarmed trying to run past shit and falling to my death etc.

It feels like this game just winds on and on, it’s less clear where to go and where I’ve been once you just keep killing and moving - I’ve tried to explore every single nook and cranny but it’s impossible to feel like I’m not missing something, somewhere. I think I’ve done decently so far as I have a good amount of items and things, but definitely going to have to decide wether to play this game slowly step by step or just fly through and kill and find stuff later or on another play through.

Kind of overwhelming at first but unlocking more skills and combat arts etc is a welcome change of pace once you’re comfortable with all the basics, and start to hunger for more options and things to do.

Loving it so far, absolutely fucking gorgeous and definitely maintains a pretty heavy handed Souls like feel. I desperately wish this game did include the RPG elements, but oh well. Pretty much every other facet of classic Souls style games is present, and introduces some other interesting ones. Grappling hook and jumping is well done and lots of fun, leads to interesting gameplay as well.

Fuck this game is hard.

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Ohh believe me your missing tons already, I wouldn't really worry about it till you get certain abilities, they all come from boss's that have to die on the way thru the game, for whatever ending you are trying to achieve.

Just bought the game and the learning curve is incredibly steep. I think even steeper than Bloodborne. Easy to get lost in this game. Parries in Bloodborne were no where near as tough as the parries in Sekiro. Does anyone have tips on the deathblow parry's?

Surprisingly one shotted lady butterfly, was a little sketch the last 1/3rd of her poise because I ran out of shurikens, but she wasn’t too bad. Ran around and killed a bunch of the mini bosses after that, none were too bad but fuck the gun fort, so many bullets flying.

The boss right after that was pretty cool though, the centipede giraffe or some shit like that. Super easy boss really, but if you panic he will rape you faster than Cosby with a pack of Quaaludes

Kuriin said:

Just bought the game and the learning curve is incredibly steep. I think even steeper than Bloodborne. Easy to get lost in this game. Parries in Bloodborne were no where near as tough as the parries in Sekiro. Does anyone have tips on the deathblow parry's?

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Honestly I find parries in BB to be harder, but it’s pretty much optional in that game. I think it just being required is what makes it seem harder