Re: your spoiler they actually spell that out in one of the prayer necklace descriptions.
Yeah, I knew this story although I havenât met any of those characters yet, which gave me interesting twinges reading that.
I love the way the Sculptor gives Sekiro a hard pat on the shoulder when heâs done working on the prosthetic, thereâs this perfectly gruff warmth after the rest of his demeanor like âbeen there Wolf, you got thisâ.
Thatâs a very good animation, and I love his model in general; the leg hair lit by the fire, his gnarled knee and foot; realizing he gave up his arm for you (they communicate this slightly obscurely so it took a few hours until I understood exactly what was going on)
Absolutely clowned on the shinobi hunter on my first serious try haha. My actual biggest criticism of the game so far is that the tooltip for the Mikiri counter is completely wrong!! 
If you know that itâs just hit dodge and not dodge+forward, you can see how generous the timing window for it is. i donât even think i was playing that precisely or skillfully for this guy, i basically just parried him to death Gwyn-style.
the trick is realizing that if youâre not holding a direction, you dodge forward. I donât know why the mikiri instructions are wrong but it drives me nuts.
anyway, further lore notes
The sculptor was once a shinobi known as Orangutan
Has anyone found any mention of this figure in item descriptions?
the tutorial text as a rule goes against their design integrity, and is so distressingly concise that it conveys an unhelpfully narrow understanding of the mechanics when itâs not actively wrong. they shouldâve gone full Simonâs Quest or just required the zombie guy to teach you every new skill you unlock by like having the skill tree be in a language only he can read or something. itâs a huge detractor as is. Iâd honestly rather see them patch it at this point, as much as everyone likes to uphold From games as rare complete works.
honestly if I had to like, pick out new skills just by the pictographs on them, and then he had to like, vomit up a little prayer scrip before demonstrating it for you â though youâd still be able to perform the move without having it shown to you if you really wanted to figure it out from the picture by trial and error â that wouldâve been a much more encouraging early game sign. no overdescribed skill tree, more playfulness.
it would also keep you from pressing forward too much on the same path and encourage you to warp back around when you had something new! thatâs like every major unintuitive issue solved.
how much of this game did you play again?
enough to have my confidence betrayed and be too dismayed to want to play as well as it demanded
Wait sorry, are you calling me onanistic because i think FromSoft games shouldnât literally vomit up tutorials when you unlock new abilities?
itâs like every single other one of their games ive ever played it seems real hard at first and then you get the hang of it. jfc.
just like play the goddamn game and stop trying to come up with Takes. Or donât!! It doesnât have to be for everyone, and that includes you!!
ive had a mad easy time with this game and i donât think itâs because im an MLG 360 No-scope gamer i just like, got the gist
edit: this forum constantly self-describes as if it were this bastion of iconoclastic game thought, but suggesting a formerly niche developer should maintain a house style that isnât everyoneâs steez makes me an elitist jerkoff lol i cant get over this
Âżatrapar el gisto? Jesus de Christo!
Âżtoma caliente? flicka de wristo!
âself-abuseâ
Sekiro critique as a veiled comment on onanism?
so far this is really lacking in fromâs true specialty: weird anxiety about menstrual blood
yeah I canât believe theyâd introduce the ability for NPCs to get pregnant and then not include it in the next game after how popular it was
wipes away tears
the craftsmanship⌠. ⌠truley a lost ⌠art
I donât think ritualistically practicing a game in order to clear it is âsynethetic self-abuseâ if itâs pleasurable. The hundred hours or so I devoted to one-credit-clearing the 25 minute first loop of DoDonPachi or Espgaluda II Black Label were some of the cleanest peace Iâve ever known. I donât feel hurt when a game is inaccessible to me. I donât get mad when My Summer Car expects me to build a car engine from scratch or whatever. I think there should be way more games that I should never be expected to be capable of finishing, let alone everyone as is the moralizing discourse with Sekiro.
Really I just think the people calling Miyazaki games exceptionally difficult (rather than just âactually difficultâ, actually making some basic demand of the playerâs engagement) are illiterate in the medium. Every time I hear some journo say âSekiro is one of THE HARDEST GAMES IâVE EVER PLAYEDâ I immediately think, like, do they even arcade.