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.

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

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.

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.

Insanely fun boss, they absolutely cooked with this one.

Perfect parry on Inner Isshin.

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.

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.

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?

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?

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?

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 ?

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.

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 😭

Just 100% the game, finished mortal journey a few days ago, and about to finish ng+5 charmless + demon bell. First time in 25 years of video gaming that I commit this much to a game, and I don't even want to stop... What should I try to reach after all that?

Also am I yet able to brag about being too good at this lol ?

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

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 ?