Sekiro man, what a ride…Celebratory wine is blowing this way out of proportion though XD. buut, my past self didn’t think I had it in me so… Yay.
Fucking great game, the difficulty needs some serious demystifying… It was not nearly as tough as I expected. That said, this felt sorta like a trial run…
Here’s to the completed playthrough, and many more to come, cheers!
An additional note:
I bursted out laughing during final boss phase two, I seriously thought the
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“Glock Saint” moniker
was a community joke! XD
Did you fight the inner bosses? Inner Isshin is a good ride.
Not yet, I supose this are related to the gauntlet of strenght? But I do plan to tackle them.
Yeah. If you do one of the gauntlets you unlock the … I think it’s called Sakura dance? It’s kind of like water fowl dance from elden ring, and it does a lightning reversal with much more generous timing
Did you also clear the Demon of Hatred?
Fuck yeah, it was amazing, one of my favourite fighst of the game and a great addition to the big arm TM souls pantheon. It felt more like regular soulsborne than the other bosses.
Very fair. Demon was one of my favorite fights. Did you also get got by the ape like I did? It definitely caught me by partial surprise, but the skeletons in DS3 trained me to watch my souls go up for certainty.
I sort of anticipated a phase two based off of his damage output, I thought, for a guy this size this certainly can’t be it. So i took note of the exp counter after it went down… And lo and behold, It didn’t move XD (after playing Lies of P I’ve also developed an incessant suspicion for multiple boss health bars )
So of course they threw in the SHINOBI EXECUTION with obvious malicious intent!
Can’t be mad tho, he’s also one of my favourites. But the rematch? I could take or leave tbh.
The ape was one of the hardest fights in any From Software game for me. I couldn’t even tell you why that fight has never clicked for me. It’s cursed.
Congratulations! 🎉
I still don’t think I have it in me to take on Sekiro, though maybe that’s partly just head gremlins who knows. The ease with which you’ve beaten it does make me second guess my hesitation a bit. But maybe the difficulty doesn’t need demystifying and you’re just a god gamer?
Also your post-credits wine celebration looks so good it’s making me falter in my dedication to give up drinking…
Giving up drinking is much more worth your pride than completing a video game.
Real champ in the comments 💪
Heh, hesitation
Oh no!!! If you are quitting for whatever reason ,stick to it. You can do it. Better off without, honestly ♡
Nah, I’m just an average gamer. XD I feel that any souls fan can do it. (And owes it to themselves to at least try, tbh). It’s that good. (Don’t let the head gremlins hold you back. )
I mean, come oooon! you have played through all the Ninja Gaidens right? Those are actually hard af. (Before you say it, different kind of hard,I know. But the mindset required is the same)
Oh don’t worry I quit drinking like ten years ago at this point. Time flies. It looks tempting and all but I don’t keep any alcohol in the house anymore so it’s easy to keep away from it. Having social anxiety and disliking leaving the house probably helps, I have to actually go outside first if I would want to drink and who wants to suffer through that?
Also don’t discredit yourself, you were breezing through DS3 and you beat Sekiro quickly and handily, I think you’re a better gamer than you think. You’re definitely a certified Souls veteran at least.
But yeah it’s interesting, I find Ninja Gaiden easier for some reason, even though they may be harder in some ways. I am still only halfway through NG4 though, I got sidetracked, but I have beaten the first three and Ninja Gaiden 2 twice this past year, plus some various chapter challenges and stuff, sometimes on the harder difficulties. But maybe the fast pace proactive and stamina-less combat is easier on my ADHD brain or something, I don’t know. Ninja Gaiden doesn’t really have any super long and exhausting boss fights and those are the ones I struggle with most in Fromsoft games. The long 10-15+ minute fights with 3 phases where you have to maintain perfect concentration and patience for such a long time. Sister Friede and Demon Prince already pushed me to my limits in the DS3 DLC, and I think that’s what’s made me a little hesitant about Fromsoft games of late (and kept me from attempting Elden Ring DLC and Sekiro).
Phew! 10 years, cool! Kuddos to you then!
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But maybe the fast pace proactive and stamina-less combat is easier on my ADHD brain or something
(I promise this is the last of me pestering you about this game :P)
Interesting, I’m sure you already know but there’s no stamina management in Sekiro, which was honestly super nice.
You also have the fast paced combat.
I don’t think proactiveness applies for this genre, if I’m understanding correctly.
but yeah, fights on average are a little bit longer compared to the rest of the soulsborne catalogue. (if I average 3 min per boss fight, in sekiro they took me 4 or 5) There was one long one, took me about 10 min another outlier took me 8. Maybe some of that is inexperience on my part. theres a special type of enemy that also has a long fight but that was side content I didn’t do.
Dodging, strafing, hit and run, holding block,are surprisingly viable in some cases and preferable to parrying in others. They work during the entirety of the game. So, no need to perfect block all of the enemy’s moveset, just gotta make the right judgement call. (the parry sound is like a dopamine hit on command tho from one neuro divergent to another…Heheh )so the approach is not super rigid as I initially said.
For SotE boss fights, I’d say difficulty and lenght is very on par with the late base game with a couple of fights even being pretty easy, that is, until final mandatory content time and it just goes- fuck you- difficult.
Off alright,I’m done… Sorry for all the heavy Sekiro proselytizing XD this is me right now
(I promise this is the last of me pestering you about this game :P)
Oh don’t apologise. First of all as someone neurodivergent I understand info dumping and hyperfixations very well. And secondly you’re one of my favourite people on here anyway. Plus you are apparently a fellow enjoyer of the word proselytize, which is worth bonus points as far as I’m concerned.
Also I pester everyone else on here about the games I’m into all the time, you know. Just as well I get some back on occasion.
I don’t think proactiveness applies for this genre, if I’m understanding correctly.
I could probably go on at length about the differences, but I always view Soulslikes as fundamentally reactive in nature. There is timing and reflexes to a certain extent, but in general the combat is about pattern memorization and patience. Especially as time goes by and Fromsoft are adding more stuff like delayed attacks and built in rollcatches and stuff that prevents you from playing in a flowstate. You dodge dodge dodge and wait for your opening. In general when you die in a Soulslike it’s because you got greedy, you got impatient or you hadn’t yet memorized the pattern.
Ninja Gaiden has a lot more movement and a lot more tools, and in general relies much more on how much you as a player can utilise your toolkit. It rewards muscle memory of combo strings and wide awareness of your whole arsenal. For the most part, when you die in Ninja Gaiden it’s because *you yourself * could have done something else and better in that moment. Use another weapon, better spacing, use the environment, use this move for iframes, cancel that move with shurikens, save Ninpo to have for this part… I think that’s what I mean by more active and proactive - you make your own openings.
Actually now I’m the one ranting… Can I reuse your cute penguin picture?
P.S
I know what you mean by the dopamine parry sound though. I got that from both Rise of the Ronin and Enotria, which both had great parry sound effects too. And I do think maybe I haven’t given enough thought to Sekiro’s lack of stamina, that is a point in its favour. Maybe I’ll add it to the consideration pile.
you’re one of my favourite people on here anyway
WHAAAT?? How did I even gain such an honor?
hopefully I'm using this correctly
Makes me happy to hear tho
You make really quality contributions ! That doesn’t count as pestering in my book.
Regarding proactiveness, Then I read you correctly and I agree 100%. That’s how I know Ninja Gaiden is not for me: too much choice, too much going on, I find it overstimulant. I guess it’s also a matter of lack of neuroplasticity at my age.
Oh and I’m sure you meant it figuratively but cute penguin I found in the adhd comm it’s not oc, sadly with no attribution attached to it.
WHAAAT?? How did I even gain such an honor?
You always spread positive energy, post great OC art, use cute ASCII emotes, indulge me in my tirades… Idk you’re always fun to talk to.
I’m nobody’s senpai though, hah. I just have a lot of opinions and like to talk about them 😅
That’s totally fair about Ninja Gaiden though, I get it. I will say that on Normal difficulty they’re totally doable and both Ninja Gaiden Black/2004 and Ninja Gaiden 4 are very approachable. Ninja Gaiden 2 is a different beast, although I think it’s also not as hard as it’s made out to be, at least on Normal and even Hard difficulty. Master Ninja is on another planet though, here is some high level gameplay and yeah, I can’t even get a sniff of surviving like that, with such minimal use of Ultimate Techniques too. But it’s a great illustration of the proactiveness I’m talking about I think.
Oh, man. I’ve got to start cracking a bottle of wine when I roll credits on a game. What a wholesome idea! Good on you!
First time I’ve done this! It felt out of my league for so long, that I had promised myself a “reward” for completing it… T’was mostly a mental block tho!
Congrats dude, not out of proportion you classy bastard.
This is still the best game of all time imo. It goes hard. If you think it wasn’t hard enough, you now have gauntlents to try.
It is definitely one for the ages
…Out of proportion? I would have a celebratory glass of wine just for having made time to try again with this game.
Every year or two I dip back in and get curved hard. It’s so gutsy and visceral, I love it but I lose my nerve. Part of the problem was using a fuzzy weak projector and I couldn’t read anything. But that’s an excuse, it’s mostly that I get flustered. Even I admit it’s a game design masterpiece though!
It’s so gutsy and visceral
It certainly can be, a couple of times it felt like I was playing bloodborne! I’d say this game’s worth a serious try. Get yourself properly set up, I’ll be your personal cheerleader!
I did finally upgrade to a projector that does tolerable resolution and response rates, have been steadily chewing into my backlog ever since. Currently trying to finish AC6 after putting that on hold for a few years as well.
Bloodborne is even deeper in the queue, and I’ve been admiring it from afar for several years. Same issue, I’ve always been more facile with slower or more forgiving From titles.
Did you also smack your left monitor in this playthrough? :)
XD I knew someone would comment on it. Heh,I’m notthe type to rage, just very clumsy. :P
Congratulations! Now, onto Platinum! You can do it.
I am indeed a sucker for trophies.
With all the respect, I would not recommend collecting platinum in Sekiro tbh. It requires collecting all skills, and this particular achievement takes so many tedious hours I never opened the game since :( Know other people sharing the same experience. But the choice is yours of course 🙏
Oooff, grinding for xp in this game does appear to be grueling. Thanks for the heads up (ㅅ´ ˘ `) … While I like trophies and challenges I also prioritize having fun.
I should give this another try. I got sorta stuck,and bored.
You should! There was some friction for me in the beginning but once it clicked it felt like regular fromsoft. (In terms of difficulty)
Congrats, glad you enjoyed your time!
Which ending did you end up with?
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Sad one, poor Kuro, poor Wolf. But feels narratively natural for a first go at the game.
Yeurp, that’s basically the default. You kinda need to go out of your way to get the other two endings: One cuts your playthrough short, in a way, skipping out on some late-game locations, and the “true” ending takes place right where you got your ending but some prerequisites are needed.
I hope my vague descriptions aren’t spoilers for you :)
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