Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice (From Software)

I am not as far as most of you but I'll be catching up this weekend! Just killed Geinichiro. I am already firm in my rating though. I hated that fucking fiery bull. His hitbox was dumb and he never stopped moving. Really annoying even if it was barely a mini boss. I spent like 10 minutes kiting around looking for a good moment to strike after I got 4/5 of his HP down from firecrackers. I thought there was some gimmick where you let him charge into a wall and gives you an opportunity to attack or something but nope!

BB > DSIII === Sekiro > DS1 > DS2

My primary gripe is the Zelda nature of the prosthetics. Since that is all the variety you get unless something changes way later they are just tools to help with X mob and not much else. While the RPG weaknesses in Bloodborne or DS were beneficial they weren't required or even made a fight AIDS for not using them. Bloodbornes weapon and moveset variety may be technically more limited than Sekiro. But it doesn't feel that way. I really like the deflect/parry/counterattack system and I hope that future games incorporate it in some way. Seems to be the logical progression too. So here's to hoping!

Ritley said:

Is there any point where you can easily Farm or purchase the confetti for the ghost guys? I’ve been skipping them because I only have a few and don’t want to waste them until I up my stats a bit

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Ashira Castle - Antechamber

Fight the samurai dudes, they occasionally drop confetti.

Terial said:

made some good? progress i think.
Killed the guy in the starter well and went to the dungeon after that... got owned by the guy who Terror's you a few times so i left him alone
Found the bottomless pit, which led me to the poison lake (typical From Software) where i got seriously owned by some blind snake eyes guy
Did manage to find my way to Kempo area, fought monks and stuff, this was fun. Eventually found the crying monk and luckly knew to just wait to talk to him since i don't have anything for him yet....
Kept exploring, found the red/white pinwheel and the pure white pinwheel (will give him that afteri get the fan to spirit him away, so since you only get 1 chance for that, i'll wait till i get the fan)
unlocked shortcut from the Demon Bell to Kempo area.

Bosses / mini Bosses still alive that i've run into
Spirit under the demon bell
Terror guy in dungeon
Snake eyes asshat who takes 85% of my health in 1 hit in the poison lake (2 items on a statue i can't figure out how to get to)

Next objective, i think i'll finally start on the castle area rooftop fun, yet to try this area yet.

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Ive killed everything up to the guardian ape except for the three headlesses I have found, fuck those guys and their stupid slow attacks that wouldn’t crush a grape.

Having watched streams and seeing how much harder it gets I am starting to wonder if I am just being a self sadist at this point in continuing... but the idea of letting a game beat me instead of the other way around is more offensive to me than the words that come out if my mouth as I fail repeatedly over and over and over and over and over and...

Ritley said:

For the snake eyes guy, make sure you get the statue start point down at the opposite of the lake, and start there. When you load in you can kill the 2 rifle guys right in front of you without agroing anything else, then sneak up behind snake eyes and take an orb off. Then pull her back to where you killed to two rifle guys so that you don’t accidentally agro any of the others.

For killing her, just gotta learn her moves, she isn’t that hard. Stay in close, parry when you can and counter. When she kicks you back she usually follows up with an overhead gun shot that you can dodge into her and avoid, also scoring a few hits. The kanji move you need to dodge directly back away from (twice if you were really in her face. Wait for her to pull the hook back in and follow it to her with a dodge and a hit or two. That’s really all there is for her

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And fireworks.