Iâve finally return to this game after a forced 7 month break due to tendonitis. It was surprisingly easy to jump back in. Once you learn that awesome combat system, I guess itâs permanently ingrained. I just got to the Fountainhead Palace and holy SHIT this area is cool. I wish the whole game were this weird and pretty!
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Fountainhead is high key the best level in the game, has the coolest encounter design and best level of stealth difficulty and it looks amazing. If thereâs ever a Sekiro 2 i hope it has way more Fountainhead and Mt. Kongo supernatural shit
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Also, it is absurd the extent to which the endgame teaches you how to fight those purple robed ministry ninjas. Theyâre suddenly everywhere, and there are like 4 or 5 minibosses with tiny variations on their moveset. I donât mind, actually. It really makes you FEEL your skill increasing. Every successive one of these minibosses seems to add some new wrinkle, but youâre getting better at fighting them faster than their difficulty is increasing. Itâs very empowering.
I really enjoyed fighting the one who keeps summoning dogs if you donât constantly harass him.
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i still suck so bad at this but i feel like itâs the most fun fromsoft game to suck at?
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did anyone figure out how to deal with the spinning twinblade jerks in Mt. Kongo? they feel like 4 NG+ levels above every other foe in that area
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The big boy baby monsters? Those are the funnest enemies in the game to parry if I recall correctly
i think cylindrome means the vaguely scarecrow looking dudes who are guarding the main temple
i always just run past them! they do seem tuned ridiculously high, their posture is nuts. i think youâre supposed to use shuriken to try to knock them out of the air since they do a lot of jumping attacks, but i never got clutch enough with my throw timing
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The way I see it, if the game didnât want you to run past them, then they wouldâve put a boss after them that they can join in as adds, like in Hirata Estate
Those guys were super hard, come to think of it. I kind of want to go back there now that Iâm all leveled up and see how they are.
i honestly had a way harder time with the drunkard fairly early on than anything else including the final boss, fucked up
The translation I could rough out:
âCongratulations, game of the year! But what are you doing, little brother?â
âThe director said that he didnât make a new work, so I quickly ate the Elden Ring cake.â
If someone can approximate Wolfâs statement better, please do. Iâm just gonna assume oldest bro DeS isâŚresting.
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I really donât know if Iâm going to beat Sword Saint Isshin.
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How far do you get before you hit a wall?
As soon as he takes that spear out, Iâm toast!
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One of the safest (though slowest) strategies to employ from that point on: keep a wide gap of distance while continually running away and to the side, camera open on him and mindful of the cliff/rock/any other terrain. Youâll get used to seeing the wind up and follow through for most of his attacks. The biggest opening for a quick slash or two looks like it would be just after he leaps and slams the spear into the ground, but not always - with a very short pause after landing, he tends to then immediately dash forward with an upward sword swipe. So look for those two moves while you are running, and you can eventually use your running momentum to curve back towards him at the opportune time (best from his side) abd get a hit in. If you get used to the right spacing, you can also hold down attack and stab in his direction but I donât remember if the damage is more significant.
Gonna be a long drawn out affair this way but most everything else involves up close timing deflections and vulnerabilities. Thereâs a few small tricks and surprises as the fight culminates, not too hard to get used to. Try not taking so many cliff dives (a dozen for me).
I first beat him playing keep away most of the time but did eventually get comfortable enough to break down his Posture instead. Get aggressive enough and Genichiro, even Isshinâs first form can become ridiculously easy, cracking their yellow.
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yeah, playing mindless keep away worksâŚ
When he pulls back his spear to wind up a huge charge attack (when all the wind is swirling around him, etc), you can drop some gunpowder on him to get a few free hits in
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I did it and look at me fuck up like 4 times (and the camera fuck up like twice.)
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took me hours and hours but hereâs my successful attempt (timestamped to 1:35:04)
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Not using the jump to catch the lightning really put you in hardmode for that last form.
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