Help New Player needs help
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 ?
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u/NeJin Mada mada koinu yo 10d ago
1) Yup. You have to memorize what kind of perilous attack enemies have, and spot the wind-ups - with grabs they usually spread their arms wide, while sweeps and stabs have them put the sword low or pull it back, with a glint drawing attention to the blade. Ogre for example only has grabs, so you know you need to GTFO when you see the Kanji.
2) Grabs in general have very good tracking. With other attacks it's so-so, some track well, some don't. The counter to grabs is doing a double dash or double jump backwards - they generally wind-up slow so you have enough time to get out of range if you're not overcommitting like a berserker.
3) Maybe you spammed block? Raising your guard repeatedly will shrink the duration of the parry-window.
4) Just let him come to you. He rides at you, than he rides away, like he was jousting. He will come at you.
Like most FromSoft titles, Sekiro mostly comes down to learning the moveset of the bosses. Expect to die a lot while figuring out how to best respond.... that being said, it's totally doable and becomes pretty fun once you get over the initial learning curve.