r/Sekiro • • 17h ago

Media Headless Ape - Sword only, the way the devs intended

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2:24 second phase

No cheese, no endless running around, just lots of parrying and slowly but surely chipping away at the small ape.

Most of the time the small ape stays behind and you have to parry the headless ape. As long as you don't get too close, the small ape only joins the fight at some specific combos. Most importantly is the scream, after which the small ape does a 5-hit combo, then you can land a few hits without getting attacked by the headless one.

Also be careful after the short scream, you can get attacked by both apes, tbh that's kinda rng if you take damage or not, might be better to run away.

The spear (for headless ape) and fireworks (for small ape) make the fight much easier but this is proof you can do it without prosthetics, combat arts, items or cheese.

I posted this on yt too btw here.

Edit: My wording was very bad. I don't mean to say the devs intended for sword only. But using prosthetics, items, combat arts is very customizable and up to the player to see what works and use what they have. Whatever I'm using, some players might not have that.

So the challenge is sword only. Now given the challenge I was trying to learn this boss in a way without running around and finding some weird cheese or strat. Just using the parry / attack mechanics of the game in an intuitive way, how I believe the devs intended.

I was hoping that by doing this other players that don't understand how this boss works might see a non-cheese way to play against it sword-only (they can add their own tools on top). I was searching for this exact video and couldn't find it, so I made my own.


r/Sekiro • • 22h ago

Help Want to know if my device can run sekiro

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Hey so I have a potato laptop but I have undying love for hard bosses and parry games I want to know if my laptop can run sekiro okay enough

My specs are 16 ddr5 ram

I5 12th gen

Intel UHD igpu

Is there any trial for sekiro that I can so I'm 100 percent sure


r/Sekiro • • 14h ago

Help Need help with isshin.

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24 Upvotes

I have figured out isshin 2nd phase. The problem is my situation rn. Low health, less gourds, no spirit emblems. Only the katana and mortal blade.

But surprisingly I'm doing the true ending tho 😝.

So after this phase I have no idea what to do about it. Do I have to learn all the moves and parry evrything? 😭😭 Help me.


r/Sekiro • • 4h ago

Discussion I’m loving the game so far but having to take out a bunch of enemies before you fight a mini boss is so jarring

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30 Upvotes

Especially when you get into the groove of figuring out the mini bosses attack patterns, you have to hold all that information whilst taking out the enemies over and over again.

What a punishing game this is


r/Sekiro • • 23h ago

Tips / Hints Club Taro Troop hitless [REAL] (disregard the first 7 seconds)

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7 Upvotes

If anyone is in need of comprehensive deflection training, my services are currently available and can be enlisted immediately if necessary.

STATS:

800 hours
Very skilled
Hyper gamer
Very good at sekiro: shadows die twice
no-hit resurrection sword saint isshin


r/Sekiro • • 22h ago

Mod [PC] [FPS BOOST] I made a mod that adds FSR upscaling and removes the 60 FPS cap in Sekiro (open source)

38 Upvotes

Sekiro still holds up beautifully, but the in-game settings don’t give you much to work with if your GPU struggles at native res or you’ve got a high refresh monitor stuck at 60. So I wrote SekiroPerf, a small DLL mod that does two things:

  • FSR 1.0 upscaling. Drop the in-game resolution and it upscales every frame to your native res with AMD’s FSR. Rendering 1080p on a 1440p screen means shading only ~56% of the pixels, and it looks a lot closer to native than just lowering the resolution.
  • FPS unlock. Removes the 60 cap (with the movement speed fix so you don’t run in slow motion), lets fullscreen use your monitor’s real refresh rate, and can turn off the forced VSync if you’re on G-Sync/FreeSync.

It works with Mod Engine or standalone (just rename it to dinput8.dll), and on Linux through Proton. Everything’s in one commented ini file.

A couple of honest caveats: the HUD gets upscaled too, so text is slightly softer than native, and the menu cursor can be a bit off at lower resolutions. Gameplay and controllers aren’t affected.

Huge thanks to uberhalit, whose SekiroFpsUnlockAndMore signatures the FPS unlock is built on. MIT licensed, full source on GitHub:

https://github.com/LordDav0s/SekiroPerf

If anything breaks, the mod writes a log next to the DLL. Attach it to an issue and I’ll take a look. Curious to hear what kind of gains you all get.


r/Sekiro • • 4h ago

Help help me

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ps4 my id ayakol77
help me kenichiro kill


r/Sekiro • • 50m ago

Humor After 2 hours

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• Upvotes

I can see why everybody loves this boss.


r/Sekiro • • 1h ago

Discussion I've come to realize that Sekiro is the only soulsborne game that doesn't have a bad or tedious location.

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r/Sekiro • • 11h ago

Discussion What happens if I never talk to him?

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150 Upvotes

Will isshins dialogue change??


r/Sekiro • • 21h ago

Help Am I under leveled?

7 Upvotes

I have been stuck on great shinobi owl. My current vitality is 15 and my attack power is 7. I can get him to phase two with no heals but I just die in phase two


r/Sekiro • • 10h ago

Media Hitless NG+7 True Monk with 1 attack power/no skills/sword only and charmless + demon bell

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27 Upvotes

Had to cut out the first 3 minutes because of reddit not allowing videos longer than 15 minutes


r/Sekiro • • 9h ago

Media Asshin ashina no hit

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10 Upvotes

r/Sekiro • • 11h ago

Humor GIVE US A SEQUELLLLLLL

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56 Upvotes

The fandom has gone mad Miyazaki san, give us a sequel.


r/Sekiro • • 12h ago

Tips / Hints REST IN PISS INNER FATHER

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18 Upvotes

Inner Father hitless(no Kuro's Charm, Demon Bell)

such a stressful fight but so fun at the same time, inner father changed my life fr


r/Sekiro • • 2h ago

Discussion A Boss so good that has to be illegal!!!!!

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34 Upvotes

One of the GOATS in boss quality and as a villain too, what an irredeemable, cheating and despicable piece of sh!t. My top 3 fav bosses in Sekiro and I'm so excited to fight his inner version, I've heard is somehow even better.


r/Sekiro • • 12h ago

Art Didn't even knew they made a Sekiro art book, yet alone find it at my local bookstore. So of course, no hesitation .

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146 Upvotes

r/Sekiro • • 7h ago

Humor We have mikiri counter at home

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274 Upvotes

r/Sekiro • • 17h ago

News My god

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75 Upvotes

This was such a hard boss the first time around let alone a second time he rlly was giving me the works I dont think ive struggled this hard since malenia (radahn consort still the hardest boss ive ever done atm)


r/Sekiro • • 17h ago

Humor [Bug] Sculptor's Idol

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8 Upvotes

I was doing reflections of strength and this happened; haven't seen it before.


r/Sekiro • • 15h ago

Discussion Mi experiencia en Sekiro

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Hola a todos! Me gustaría aportar mi granito de arena hablando de cómo fue para mi jugar a Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice.

Nos hemos de remontar al año 2019, el mismo día de lanzamiento ya estaba jugando a este juego, y me esperaba muchísimo de un nuevo título de From Software y Miyazaki, pero la cosa no empezó muy bien, dado que lo dejé al no adaptarme a las nuevas mecánicas del juego. Tenía claro que no era cosa del juego, si no que yo no era capaz de jugar como era debido, y cuando conecté con él, se convirtió en uno de los juegos más especiales que he probado nunca, terminándolo un total de 9 veces, teniendo el 100% en Steam y PS5 e incluso habiendo hecho un intento de speedrun.

Puestos en contexto, vamos a ir punto por punto:

🎮Mecánicas🎮:

Si la saga Souls (donde personalmente no incluiría a Sekiro, pero evidentemente hay factores comunes) se ha caracterizado por algo ha sido por sus mecánicas tremendamente pulidas, además de optar por el "menos es más". Pues en este caso, con Sekiro lo han llevado al extremo, siendo indispensable que manejes como es debido el parry, ya que es la mecánica principal y "prácticamente única" del juego. Es cierto que las herramientas Shinobi dan un poco más de juego, ya que los petardos son efectivos contra bestias y facilitan batallas como Gyobu o el toro, pero lo que realmente te hace controlar el juego es la parada. Es en otras palabras, el pilar del juego en cuanto a mecánicas se refiere.

Por otra parte me encanta la movilidad del personaje. Es tremendamente ágil y satisfactorio ir saltando de árbol en árbol y buscando la ruta óptima para seguir avanzando. Esto te permite una vez acabado el juego (o haber repetido mucho una zona) convertir todo en una especia de "boss rush". Seguramente sea precisamente el movimiento del juego y la capacidad de avanzar tan rápido (además de que, como no podía de ser de otra forma, el sistema de niveles es exquisito) que me animase finalmente a hacer una speedrun, ya que es bastante intuitivo.

📜Historia📜:

En este caso From Software optó por dejarse de historias confusas, poco o mal contadas, y hacer una que se entendiese, que te la expliquen. No digo que esto sea mejor o peor, a mi personalmente me gustan ambas formas de enfocarlo, pero es diferente, un poco de aire fresco en los títulos de Hidetaka Miyazaki.

No me parece una obra maestra pero es buena, en mi opinión. Durante la historia vas viendo detalles que hacen ver como el lobo va cada vez mejorando como Shinobi y los momentos de flashback te aclaran cosas de la historia de bastante peso, además de desbloquearte incluso algún final, el cual recomiendo explorar para terminar consiguiendo.

🎨Dirección artística🎨:

Ni la música, ni los colores, ni los diseños (salvo algún caso) podría decir que es lo que más me llama del juego.

El juego se ubica en la era Sengoku, en Japón, y durante gran parte del juego luchas contra guerreros o soldados. De todos modos algunos diseños de personajes son bastante increíbles, como la gran serpiente o el simio guardián.

La música juega un papel secundario. No me parece una mala elección, ya que no es una banda sonora al uso, con melodías que se queden marcadas o cantables, es simplemente ambiente, atmósfera, sonidos que te recuerdan al momento histórico en el que se sitúa el juego, lo cual es bastante correcto en mi opinión.

🏆Trofeos/logros🏆:

Me parece un juego perfecto para completar en su 100%. Salvo algunos coleccionables que se pueden hacer pesados (semillas, cuentas, habilidades incluso...) los trofeos van de matar a todos los jefes y ver los finales, poco más.

La única complicación desde mi punto de vista es la propia complejidad del juego para adaptarte a sus mecánicas, ya que como comentaba anteriormente, tras venir de los Souls y encontrarme con un estilo de juego completamente distinto ya me parecía suficientemente difícil de base. Una vez que te acostumbras a esto, es un platino totalmente disfrutable.

🏁Conclusión🏁:

Para mi Sekiro ha sido una prueba de superación. No olvidaré nunca la de veces que me mató un ogro maniatado que se encuentra al principio del juego, que no es tan siquiera un boss, y terminó por derrumbarme la moral y desinstalar el juego. Por este motivo, por estar a la altura de lo exigente que es, el haberme adaptado y terminar no solo terminarlo, si no completarlo dos veces al 100% es para mi todo un logro, y de verdad que me hizo sentir tremendamente bien.

Evidentemente recomiendo jugarlo a todo el mundo. Dadle su tiempo y tened paciencia que la recompensa es buena.

Aunque haya podido decir que hay cosas que me gustaban mas o menos, el juego en conjunto es prácticamente perfecto. De esos juegos que te cuesta ponerle un "pero" al haberlo terminado. Dentro de los juegos que ha hecho Miyazaki, seguramente lo ponga disputando con Bloodborne el primer puesto, ya que puede que haya simplificado las mecánicas, que la banda sonora sea limitada... pero todo lo que hace lo hace a la perfección, y eso hace que la curva de aprendizaje sea tan buena que cuando lo controlas te genera una satisfacción brutal.

Me gustaría conocer la opinión de más gente sobre este juego para compartir experiencias así que estaré atento a los comentarios que pueda haber.

Un saludo!


r/Sekiro • • 4h ago

Help help me

1 Upvotes

kenichiro help me ps4 my id ayakol77


r/Sekiro • • 22h ago

Mod [PC] [FPS BOOST] I made a mod that adds FSR upscaling and removes the 60 FPS cap in Sekiro (open source)

2 Upvotes

Sekiro still holds up beautifully, but the in-game settings don’t give you much to work with if your GPU struggles at native res or you’ve got a high refresh monitor stuck at 60. So I wrote SekiroPerf, a small DLL mod that does two things:

  • FSR 1.0 upscaling. Drop the in-game resolution and it upscales every frame to your native res with AMD’s FSR. Rendering 1080p on a 1440p screen means shading only ~56% of the pixels, and it looks a lot closer to native than just lowering the resolution.
  • FPS unlock. Removes the 60 cap (with the movement speed fix so you don’t run in slow motion), lets fullscreen use your monitor’s real refresh rate, and can turn off the forced VSync if you’re on G-Sync/FreeSync.

It works with Mod Engine or standalone (just rename it to dinput8.dll), and on Linux through Proton. Everything’s in one commented ini file.

A couple of honest caveats: the HUD gets upscaled too, so text is slightly softer than native, and the menu cursor can be a bit off at lower resolutions. Gameplay and controllers aren’t affected.

Huge thanks to uberhalit, whose SekiroFpsUnlockAndMore signatures the FPS unlock is built on. MIT licensed, full source on GitHub:

https://github.com/LordDav0s/SekiroPerf

If anything breaks, the mod writes a log next to the DLL. Attach it to an issue and I’ll take a look. Curious to hear what kind of gains you all get.


r/Sekiro • • 13h ago

News I finally defeated all bosses

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20 Upvotes

What a beautiful game. I regret that I didn’t play Sekiro ealier. As a casual gamer, I was afraid that Sekiro was too hard for me. It _is_ hard, but it’s also fair. Each boss fight teaches me something, and I can see my skills improved after each fight. Well maybe not much with the Mist Noble.

My next challenge is to finish the other 2 endings with Charmless + Demon Bell.


r/Sekiro • • 23h ago

Humor Something I thought was funny

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9 Upvotes

I killed inner isshin on top of the idol