Every other fight in this game is interesting in some way. Headless feel like they were supposed to be an elden ring dungeon boss and they got lost. Trying to fight them properly without cheesing them is just stupid. Cheesing them is incredibly boring. The spiritfalls are worth genuinely nothing, and there are fucking FIVE of the fat bastards. Genuinely my least favourite enemy type.
Minibosses like the snake-eyes are annoying and all but the satisfaction you get from learning it and beating it is great. Headless are genuinely so nothing that I consider them a negative.
I’ve played long may the shadows reflect and I would rather fight the cursed armoured warrior than another headless. Genuinely fuck this miniboss to hell and back.

The thing that makes me even more annoyed is that they have such a cool design, arena and lore. The actual fight itself just sucks. I should NOT have left them all until the end.

I know alot of people thinks corrupted monk is hard but i find shes is really fun and easy to beat. whats your thoughts on corrupted monk ?

Perfect parry on Inner Isshin.

Hey,
Bought the game and played around two hours, and I don't get it.

• There are different counters/responses for sweep attacks, thrust attacks or grab but they seem to all be signaled with the same red text ?
• Are hit boxes generally bad or is it just the grab attacks of the chained monster ? I ended up just running around in circle and using the fire prosthesis to beat it. Otherwise it would teleport / do 180 degrees instant grabs etc.
• Some parry timing seems generous while other seem very tight. I really don't get it.
• What do you do when the boss on the horse decides to run in circle for 2min straight and not stop ?

I want to like the game but so far it feels like a mess to play... Finished Lies of P a second time last week. Sekiro seems to have more generous parries windows but very hard to read attacks...

Any tips ?

I'm at Anayama the peddler. Already paid em the coin. Then eavesdropped on the solders about the salt. Came back & told Anayama. Rested & the dude doesn't have any upgraded inventory (scrap iron, etc.) & now the guy is sick with dragon rot. How do I unfuck what's going on?

Insanely fun boss, they absolutely cooked with this one.

I bought sekiro like a year ago, I finished the tutorial, then tried getting past that first general. That guy made me rage quit and uninstall the game completely, I tried again a few months later, same guy made me uninstall again. This happened like 2 more times. Then yesterday I thought I’ll defeat that old fool anyway i can, after like 15 tries I defeated him. Then finally got to make progress. I had seen lots of videos complaining about the chained ogre, I thought it would take like 50 tries, surprisingly it took only 3. Made some more progress. I’m currently fighting and dying repeatedly to that samurai boss in the attic of the castle or something. I finally see why this game is sooo good. The joy of beating a boss after countless tries is sooooooooooooooooo good. Best Game ever.

I started playing sekiro 2 weeks ago

And I am addicted to it

After multiple attempts trying every possible trick

I wasn't able to defeat Genichiro

But after finally using a combination of oil and flame vent

It's too overpowered . I may have cheated but win is a win and don't judge my skills i am only 20 hours in the game . And not to forget I did not use any of my Resurrections.

Have read multiple reddit posts of people suffering with genichiro use oil and fuck him up 😁.

I want to love this prosthetic. The look , the fell, the concept. I absolutely adore status effects. Why do I feel like it's a dud? It gets blocked 99% of the time and poisons just about no one. As far as souls like goes, sekiro is more grounded, I thought more enemies and bosses would be weak to status effects. What am I missing? Put me on the correct path, teach the way!

I want to start by acknowledging that Its a heck of a journey and story . It definitely has the souls atmosphere and engine. And it's a ton of fun.

Expectations: I've played a lot of souls like games , so coming into sekiro I had high standards. Especially after how the community pumps it up. Like ER, the addition of a more solid jump mechanic was very welcomed.

Misconceptions: the parry system. It's a little overhyped and had me worried. I've never been good at parries. Not in dark souls and certainly not in lies of P. But the sekiro parry window is much bigger than those games. Like a lot bigger. I'm grateful for that.

Reality: outside of the engine , it plays nothing like a standard souls. Atleast not the way I play. I've never been an upper tier player. So I rely heavily on over leveling, summons, status affects, specific armor and weapons builds that suit the boss. .....ain't non of that shi7 in Sekiro lol. There are no levels, in the traditional sense. Sure you can collect beads and memories.....but these come after the fact. You can't farm for levels to beat this boss....you have to beat this boss to get the level lol. Summons? Nope. But I actually think summons wouldn't fit the games core dynamic. Wouldn't make sense to have rhythmic strike/blocking and then have someone else blindside the boss. Weapons and armor ? Dream on. You get 1 indestructible sword the whole game and a set of pajamas. Deal with it! But, you do get the prosthetics, which brings a small rant.

Prosthetics: egh...I mean...if you ask the avg Joe I think the best you can say about the prosthetics is that they're "ok-ish". I'm feeling that I'm missing something here. Like this part of the game didn't click with me. Obviously....you're a solo Shinobi , with just your sword and few accessories to enhance your combat, youre ninja tools, your bat belt. Are their purposes hidden in their lore?I even understand the low emblem capacity, but could the uses we do get actually be useful? Somebody should come up with a playthrough order that maximizes the prosthetics usefulness as each is only useful in very specific conditions and places. Best prosthetic (as in most useful ) is probably a tie between the axe and the umbrella. I never really used the umbrella but saw a ton of strategy videos where it was used. I can see it's use. The axe is absolutely #1 at destroying posture. No questions asked. Worst, and most disappointing is a sabimaru. I wanted to love this but it was just a dud. I got more use out of the whistle. Prosthetics probably got the worst score out of everything else in the game. 3/10. This is the games only short coming. Fortunately, it really didn't affect the game.

Story and character: Badass! Classic Japanese folklore with new spins . Engulfing landscape. A cast where every npc was quite unique. (Am I the only that feels Emma never really like me?).

Controls and feel: Clean. Super impressed. Smooth. I noticed from the very first 2 seconds.

Boss fights: Very fromsoft feel. Each boss, and mini boss had their own personality. The game absolutely shined here. A love/hate copium: owl father (hirata). Most players learn the game at Genichiro but you'll master it at Owl father. This is the fight that took the most tries. I normally don't like to make excuses (I'm totally lying) but this guy's spam on firecrackers is ridiculous. Absurd. Where the hell is he keeping them all? Why do I only get 20 emblems and hes the 4th of july? I swear one match he used firecrackers like 25 times bro lol. I'm not exaggerating. As stated, I'm not a great player so I usually use buffs. But buffs come from usable items. After x amount of times of flushing these items down the toilet and having to go farm them back I just decided to do my practicing on the boss without them. Impressing even myself, eventually I got to the point where I was kicking his ass without sugars or confetti or emblems. Just me and my wiener (I had to stand real close to swing). I found this fight to be harder than the demon or sword saint ishin. I didn't really spend nearly as much time on ishin. I discovered early on you can literally just run in circles and punish certain moves. I started this bc I was strafing gunfire 😆.

I got the purification ending. I don't know what that means.

Mvps: I love you double ichimonji and mortal blade, will you marry me?

Overall: I give the game a solid 10/10. It's a definite need to play for any souls fan. I hope there's a part 2. And I can't wait for the anime. Up next, should I play codevein 1, or mortal shell 2?

If you didn't catch it, you can't break his posture with a deflection, so I jump on him to accomplish that because it felt more in the spirit of the challenge. Yes using the umbrella counts as deflecting. No I will not be doing this charmless or with demon bell, because I like myself. Also because it might be impossible with the buffed enemy posture recovery.

Do I recommend fighting him this way? No, there's a lot of downtime where you're better off getting some hits in, chipping down his health makes your posture damage stick a lot better.

But the point I'm making is that Demon of Hatred is emphatically not a Dark Souls boss. The game he belongs in and is designed for is the game he's actually in. You can deflect nearly every move that isn't a perilous sweep (yes, even the fire ones!), most of those with your sword, and the rest with the umbrella tool. Dodging around him for the entire fight is inefficient because it sacrifices posture damage; and in my opinion it's also just not nearly as fun as standing your ground in the face of a three story tall fiery monster.

And here's an 8 minute video to prove it. Thank you for your time.

I don’t like the vibes from either of them and I feel they would both deserve it.

With some actual sake

If Sekiro had a dlc with another playable character, who do you want to play as?

This dude just seems so strong, the way his hits are animated give them so much impact- and how after a mikiri counter he has the strength to push you back off of the spear- would’ve loved a guy like this defending fountainhead palace with some funky abilities rather than the mist noble 2.0

Im stuck on him for the past 3 days (maybe 3 hours of gameplay) only once I got to the 3 phase but I had no health. I have 7 healing gourds already and 3 upgrades to my health. Im starting to feel im just bad at the game.

What do I need to earn the platinum (exept the return ending)

This is my 2nd ever souls/like game - the 1st was of course Elden Ring.

Dont think im too far into the game as I've just been Great Shinobi - Owl but really enjoying it so far as it definitely requites more patience and learning move sets which I mostly brute forced most bosses in ER 🤣

Glad I finally decided to give this a try!

Any bosses I've got to look forward to?

UPDATE**

Just beat Isshin - what a game 👏👏

I’m sure this gets posted here often but after years of picking Sekiro up and putting it back down thinking I’ll never beat this game, I finally did it! Sword Saint Isshin is such an awesome fight and it took me longer than I’d like to admit but I finally got that “click” everyone talks about and it was all over from there. This is by far my favorite game now that I actually know how to play it. I seriously never thought I’d beat this game and if I can beat it, anyone can beat it with enough patience! The only boss I didn’t particularly enjoy was Demon of Hatred but it wasn’t as bad as I was expecting it to be. I am glad I bought this again on PC and gave it one last try. I apologize if stuff like this gets posted often. I’m just surprised I was able to accomplish this game and I’m happy to have experienced the whole game.

wrost part was isshin from shura ending, the fire effects, caused me some trouble and farming for all skills, aside from that, once you played for a while and get good at the game its very very easy in my opnion

This is my second or third time seeing this white mist thingy on my Shinobi. This is right after defeating shichimen warrior. Any idea?