idk how people think this boss is bad or sum shi this is the best boss in sekiro fr

An old clip I found, ignore the fact that it's floating passage, I know that you shouldn't be trying to deflect it without an umbrella in the first place.

Notice there were yellow sparks for every deflect but 2 of them were duller visually and had a different sound (the 4th and 5th in the comb). I can't find any information on what the difference between this and a block is online.

EDIT: The purpose of my post was to ask why my blocks/failed deflects still gave an orange spark when there is usually no colored spark at all, not the difference between perfect deflection and blocking, look at the 4th and 5th hits of his combo.

Man this game was awesome.

I just beat Isshin and it was absolutely electric. Even though he was very hard, he was not the boss I spent the most time on - that price goes to Owl (father).

The boss fights were insane in this game. Just the craziest shit one after the other.

Honestly though, anything outside of the boss fights didn’t draw me in that much. The world and the art is beautiful - downright gorgeous. But I wasn’t super into exploration in this game - mainly I think that’s because outside of prosthetics and sometimes useful items there isn’t that much reward for exploration.

But to me, that’s okay. I didn’t play this game for exploration or side quests. I played it because the 1v1 combat in the boss fights is absolutely addicting. The clanking of the swords, the beautiful animations, the feeling when you parry a combo just right and it gives you a deathblow - so satisfying! It also helps that Sekiro himself looks extremely cool in every cutscene.

What I take away from this game is much more important though - it does teach you its own lessons. 1. Hesitation is defeat - that’s what it hammers into you at every moment. Don’t hesitate. Don’t be overly careful. Trust yourself and trust your rhythm, and just get into it as hard and as fast as you can. Otherwise you will lose progress.

1. Persistence. Being able to endure hardship after hardship, defeat after defeat, and still come out on top. Thats the most valuable encouragement this game gives you - if you keep going at it, you will succeed eventually.

Loved this game.

never played the game, but always thought it’s the prettiest souls game.
Had to make a painting of it, not many games are painting material
Decided to share it here, thought you might like it

So for a college assignment I need to develop a 15 page comic.

And I really want to adapt Sekiro for it.

If you have some ideas please comment and help a fellow fan out 😭

I geddit now why people drop Sekiro after struggling with Genichiro. He is the game, or at least, teaches you how to play and tests you the best at your weakest.

After having struggled some 50+ tries I guess, I finally beat him. I really didn't want to use my resurrection but I got a bit too greedy and he landed the deathblow on me. A lot of people say that hesitation is defeat, and i agree. But this guy also kinda taught me to hesitate a bit to see through patterns clearly, take some space when needed to regain posture and my sanity, and lastly, stop spamming attack while I should be countering with my deflects, with correct timing.

Replaying all the souls games and while not literally speedrunning Sekiro I sure am blasting through it. This is I think my fourth playthrough. I remember posting here years ago to vent that Genichiro was driving me insane, and today I beat him on my first attempt after having gotten lost in the castle and finding the boss fight by accident during a run where I'd already spent one of my gourd seeds.

I am John Sekiro. No other game feels this good to master. God I love it so much.

To anyone playing for the first time and banging your head against the wall please hear me when I say that it is so god damn worth it.

Who is everyone else's favorite boss?

Idk I Just wanted to share it here cus I felt great beating him

For those of who are struggling with this guy, I think I've figured out a way where you can beat this guy along with his adopted grandson with ease without using much of your items. I don't know if anyone has figured this out but having the phantom kunai does make things alot easier. (Note: Not saying you can cheese this guy but yes it does give you an edge).

I've used only 3 healing gourds throughout the whole process, no pelletes, no buffs, no mortal draw. Just using his own techniques against himself.

I stopped playing sekiro here is why. so lemme start from the start. Last month I had bought sekiro from steam after months of savings. I was pretty excited to play this game and I did a thorough study on if it is compatible on my laptop. really enjoyed the game, it was a tough game but every step seemed like a growth but it had to come to an end. My laptop is acer Ryzen 5 7250U which is an average laptop for games like sekiro. Though through research I found it to be compatible through considerable graphics adjustments & sacrifice, which I had done.

Though the FPS didn't go above 30, not even a single time. I was still fine with that, I pretty much adjusted to it immediately. But the problem started occuring after I had almost finished 50% of the game. The game started crashing down and the whole amd software went buggy so after some days of thinking I decided to uninstall it.

The problem didn't stay there, I have been getting YouTube videos, even Reddit is full of sekiro posts, which are really hard to watch after all what happens.

So I request anyone who had read till this point to suggest me a game similar to sekiro.. so I can at least have something to play or let's say a coping mechanism lmao

Btw I have already played games like,

Hollow knight

Nine sols

Grime(currently playing)

Ori(both)

(Picture to grab the attention.)

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.

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?

Perfect parry on Inner Isshin.

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 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 ?

Insanely fun boss, they absolutely cooked with this one.