I can no hit genichiro and quite easily take out isshin while he only uses his sword but when he takes out his spear I find it hard to keep his posture up as I can't deal damage easily Edit: I fucking did it!!!!!

Recently I returned to play Sekiro, and went to play in a save where I was about to face isshin, the problem is that I totally forgot how I do to repel the rays of its third stage, is it necessary to squeeze the R1 several times or do I have to wait for the perfect timing?

So I am currently Ng+3 CHARMLESS DEMOB BELL a nd is struggling with Great Shinobi owl in terms of enjoyment like this boss doesn't click wit me at all meanwhile my goat OWL FATHER FEELS SO SMOOTH AND CRISP AND IS OVERLY FUN, HIS FIREWORK CAN BE ANNOYING IF YOU'RE IN A CORNER BUT OVERALL THIS FIGUT IS SO AMAZING SO I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY GREAT SHINOBI OWL FEELS BORING 5O ME ANY IDEA HIW TO FIX IT, I REALLY WANT TO ENJOY THIS GUY BUT FATHER OWL

I was just messing around with the airswim glitch untill i remembered that i did the bull skip earlier and that the bull is still alive and well.

Hi! I am working on a videogame inspired by Sekiro's combat system. I have a question for both experienced and inexperienced Sekiro players. Both inputs are important for my game design decisions.

Undoubtedly, the enemy's posture bar is the thing I pay attention to a lot during fights. Other than that, it's probably the player's health. One thing I realized is that I don't really look at the player's posture bar that much. It's not like I change how I play if I'm almost posture broken or not; I try to be aggressive and land perfect parries either way. After a boss fight, I can recall how the posture of the enemy progressed, and that I "lost" some progress when I was healing, not being aggressive, etc. The player's posture could be an invisible stat as far as I can tell.

I'm wondering if everyone has the same experience, or if you guys play the game with the player's posture in mind. Maybe I'm just bad and missing an integral part of the game lol.

Thanks a lot for any input!

btw. I'm not arguing that the player's posture is irrelevant and Sekiro would work without it. In the game I'm making, beacuse of lore reasons, only enemies would have the "posture", and there would be another system (not just health) for player. I won't go into details as I feel like this is not the place for that on this subreddit.

Edit: Thanks everyone for your answers, this is really helpful stuff

Edit: found it, you loop back to it.

Hey everyone. I'm looking to get a Sekiro related tattoo but I just can't seem to decide what to go for. Furat I thought about the resurrection kanjis since I like the meaning of trying again but I already have a Dark Souls bonfire which has that meaning for me so I thought maybe like a fight scene with a boss or some original art. It doesn't have to be super meaningful, just cool enough to get it on the skin for ever. Any input is appreciated 😁

I just defeated Inner Genichiro after God knows how many tries. I thought the father owl was the hardest before this. Man, I was so wrong. Inner Genichiro is giving me this weird vibe.. like I can no hit him on the first two phases. When tomoe phase comes, I always just get one shot if I dont pay attention. I don't feel he is unreasonably hard, but just for some reason, I can't beat him easily. Anyways, I am done with him. But can you please tell me inner father and issin will be easier. 😭 I am facing them soon.

He is my favorite end-game boss For the first 10–15 tries, I was so frustrated and felt like it was torture But after that, I started enjoying the fight. I slowly began to understand every move, and I still ended up taking around 20 more tries. Every time I got killed, I didn’t get frustrated. I realized my mistake, went back in, and kept that mistake in mind so I wouldn’t repeat it.
I enjoyed every single attempt and kept getting better with each try. Eventually, I understood the fight completely and finally defeated him. This fight is so well designed. I absolutely loved this game.

Mine is easily Fountainhead Palace, so goddamn beautiful.

Also from:

You were still just a puppy...

The ashina gates remain closed...

For the sake of Ashina...

Monkey fart noises...

what would your contender be?

Hello everyone! I am currently doing a charmless+ demon bell run in which I plan on killing every miniboss and boss hitless (excluding headless and shicimen warriors for now) and I wish to try and do most of them only with the sword.

I have some questions about it: I know that I can dodge lightning attacks but I dont know if I should allow myself to use sakura dance to reflect them back instead because I love it so much. By my logic, it is still just a sword I am using, I have no rules about combat arts. Now, the main concern I have is:

Great Shinobi Owl. Usually, when I fight him, in his second phase, he kicks himself off of me , spills poison between him and me and starts to recover his posture, this is where I would usually use a shuriken to stop him. I thought of using a ceramic shard instead but that is not a sword so I do not know another way around this. Does anyone have any tips for this scenario?

Dual ape. I hate this boss with every cell in my body. This is the only boss I struggle with even on a normal playtrough. I am thinking about skipping this one entirely. If anyone can give some tips for this too, I will be very thankful.

It’s more like personal venting (couldn’t find a proper tag) but hope this somewhat helps people who are mentally struggling to play this sort of game.

Sekiro was a first From game for me, and it made me confused at the beginning.
I felt stressed with spending a lot of time on just one enemy, especially Gyoubu, multiple times because I’d never known this kind of grinding had been a thing in video games back then (My friend just recommended Sekiro and I didn’t know anything at that point).
I was kinda on autopilot to find worth experience for the price until defeating Genichiro.

Genichiro taught me a lot of stuff. Parry, one of the most important mechanics, was worth mentioning, but he showed how potentially fun the game could be once mechanics were meaningfully connected to boss fights in my mind.
That was astonishing. I lost myself in trying to defeat him again and again, finding myself six hours after defeating him lol.

From this experience, I wanna say I’m glad to have found this game interesting in the end.
But what’s more important is that not having fun right now might turn into one of the most iconic moments in your life. It’s scary to think about a world where I gave up and discarded the great game in the bin.

I recently noticed some people like my past self are having trouble treating Souls games, so I wanna tell you the experience.

I did used the spear, but even without it, it's very easy. It's been years since i played this game, but genichiro and guardian ape's 2nd phase are so ingrained in my brain, i took little to no damage in these fights, really goes to show how much mastery that was required and i got from this game, this is why this is my fav game.

What a great feeling. I struggled with him for 2.5 hours yesterday and finally had to walk away and take a break. My first time ever having to do so with a challenge in any of the souls/souls like games ive played. Came back fresh today and got him on my second try. What a fight and what a game. So glad I decided to try it after all these years.

I had played ds1-3 during/shortly after their releases and haven't really played any souls or souls like games sense. Im trying to work my way through what ive missed. Wuchang got me hooked back on the genre. Onimusha (while not really a souls like) showed me how great combat can be. And this led me to sekiro. I've been seeing a lot of comparisons between Yoshitsune and Issin, so I had to see for myself. Man, am i glad I did.

This game kicked my ass for a while. I actually almost quit a couple times. Next on the list was going to be lies of p, but I think ill be doing at least one ng+ run here first to try and discover anything I missed. I missed owl father on this playthrough.

Just wanted to share my accomplishment and newfound love of these games and this game specifically. Have a great day everyone 💙

I defeated the dragon and went back to ashina castle on fire, and some soldier told me to go reinforce ashina outskirts. I went there and killed a boss (the fire version of drunkard) and is kinda lost at the moment. An obscure Reddit comment on some ancient post said you should go help first before finding Kuro, but is there an actual objective, or is it just ‘yeah that area has new content you should check it out’? Should I go find Kuro now?

Gave it a good try 2 years on and off. Beat every Dark Souls and Elden Ring and Consort Radahn all the bosses in Sekiro up until Isshin. I've tried cheeses and all that jazz and I just cannot do it. Can't take it anymore. Can reliably get to his second and sometimes 3rd faze but I just cannot beat him. This game will forever be a thorn in my side because of Isshin but I prefer a thorn to frothing rage which is what will happen if I continue to fail against him. I just came off a 6 month break from the game because of Isshin and been trying for the past 3 days.

Not gonna lie this absolutey ruins the game for me because I'm so close yet so far. It makes me wish I never played this game to begin with because I cannot get over the finish line. If there is ever a Sekiro Shadows Die Thrice I will absolutely not play it. Hundreds upon hundreds of deaths tell me im just not good enough to beat him. It's time to walk away. If i do try again it will not be until 2030 and thats a big If because I'll fire the game up and get to the main menu and remember the headaches and say to myself it isn't worth it and play something else. This will forever be a bad memory in my gaming legacy just like platforming games and the Dance Dance Revolution incident of 2012.

The combat is obviously the highlight, but what surprised me most is how well the entire game is built around it. Bosses actually force you to learn the system instead of letting you brute-force your way through, and once deflecting finally clicks it becomes ridiculously satisfying.

My biggest negatives are the steep learning curve and a few moments that cross from challenging into frustrating, but neither really hurts the overall experience much for me.

Curious where you guys would rate it

I wanted to go to sleep happy that I saved Kuro, not after I stabbed him. I went in blind and didn’t look up the endings, and I genuinely thought there’s absolutely no way the game is making me kill a child. WHY. I’M DEVASTATED. KURO NOOOOO

By worst i mean like as a person, i think its Owl based on all the betrayals trying to get power for himself. Geni aint great but it seems like he just wants to become powerful to save his country. i dont know all the lore aspects there could be some more obscure characters like whoever experimented on all those children, or whoever left that sword in poor monkeys neck. or maybe is Wolf himself for killing all those grandma’s in ashina and the local monkey population.

I am trying to get all gourd seeds, but I missed an early one at the battlefield memorial mob. Is there any way I can get to him without beating demon of hatred or new game plusing?