Sekiro: high monk trades divine/grass with potnoble, becomes/a redeyed ogre

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fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

im currently in nightmare hell dealing with owl at the hirata estate memory. can't even take one pip off the guy. any suggestions outside of "don't get hit"? that seems to be what the basis of the gameplay is but i'm...still working on that.

# ¿ Sep 18, 2020 01:17

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 13:42

fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

i did it, but at the cost of my physical and mental health. thanks goons. just isshin now.

# ¿ Sep 22, 2020 02:52

fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

World War Mammories posted:

HESITATION

IS

DEFEAT

im hesitating and wouldn't you believe it!! he keeps defeating me!!

# ¿ Sep 22, 2020 08:29

fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

1. king's field

# ¿ Oct 31, 2020 05:33

fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

today i did laundry and started a new file to practice so i can try the gauntlet stuff but lol im already crashing and burning at ashina castle. that seven spears guy in the reservoir is a dick

# ¿ Nov 2, 2020 04:25

fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

Kite Pride Worldwide posted:

Backstab and cook him to death, gently caress fighting fair

oh my god i forgot i can bbq him, thank you

e: hey, using the flame vent is fair play, that guy is like 2 feet taller than me and probably 300 pounds heavier. sekiro is just a little man

# ¿ Nov 2, 2020 22:27

fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

# ¿ Nov 7, 2020 07:16

fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

i dont care about ruining the taught and somber atmosphere of this game about the cycles of destruction!! i want gestures!! im tired of having to throw my rear end in a circle to communicate

# ¿ Nov 7, 2020 07:34

fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

Cpt_Obvious posted:

I dunno, I found the bosses to be the worst parts of those games.

id kill to do the pthumerian queen fight again without having to do.......all the stuff.....required....

# ¿ Nov 12, 2020 04:14

fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

isnt the purpose of chained ogre just to encourage you to use your shinobi tools and experiment with how they can help you. he's a totally fine first boss. i think the real problem i ran into is that i didn't hit a boss where the intent truly was to run up their parry meter more than their health bar until i hit genichiro where i just slammed right into a wall forever because i kept playing the game like soulsbornes.

the way i fought blazing bull was...i didn't even know you could parry it until like last week. i've been dancing around it like its a bloodborne creature like a moron.

# ¿ Nov 16, 2020 22:42

fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

simply be like me, a little bitch, and stun lock the monkeys with mortal blade

# ¿ Nov 19, 2020 04:00

fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

i once again regret to inform everyone i started a new game when the update dropped and am stuck at owl father in the hirata memory once more

# ¿ Nov 19, 2020 04:05

fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

BigHandsVince posted:

If you buy everything from the merchants (I've found 2, so far), is there anything else to spend gold on? I've got like 3500 and want to spend it before taking on Juzou or Gyobu.

the best thing to do is bank it in the form of buying the money purses but otherwise money flows pretty plentiful in this game.

Oscar Wild posted:

You can buy sugars, theyre kinda useful. Or emblems.

okay, emblems are also a safe bet im always running out of those things

# ¿ Nov 19, 2020 04:48

fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

THE AWESOME GHOST posted:

I remember laughing so hard when I killed the ape and he popped up again

And then I remember laughing even harder when I fought the ape and a second ape popped up.

I know they had a boss that was literally 4 monkeys but I was kinda expecting the game to just keep ramping up the ape numbers instead. Last boss is an Ape and you kill him and an Ape comes out of his dead body, and each phase more and more apes come out to fight you

isshin cuts his neck open and a huge monkey hand reaches out to grab his semi-automatic pistol

# ¿ Nov 19, 2020 18:56

fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

BeanpolePeckerwood posted:

Yeah I beat every boss in the game and Seven Spears still trips me up pretty reliably.

every seven spears really chafes me lol. those guys are so tricky.

Zerilan posted:

Lady Butterfly has beaten me down a lot so far. Keep going a bit further in the castle then coming back. The Seven Spears guy sucks even getting the first bar down with a stealth kill. His thrust is so delayed that it makes the counter timing weird on the mikiri, and he has a load of health/posture to wear down.

lady butterfly used to tear me apart as well. i dont know if it helps to know but it's a stamina drain battle: concentrate on deflecting almost exclusively. play defensively and only get offensive on the illusions to disperse them if you're out of seeds. as soon as i figured out that trying to lower her hp was pointless and just opened me up to get shredded, it was like day and night

# ¿ Nov 25, 2020 00:54

fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

HenryEx posted:

i just beat her again on ng+ and my advice was in fact poo poo advice. theres way more opportunities to hit than i was remembering lol.

# ¿ Nov 26, 2020 16:35

fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

Ostrava posted:

There's a section of the reservoir area that has a good cluster of enemies I'm sort'a farming to warm back up. There's a spear Samurai boss up there as well. Seemed a good place to shake off the rust.

oh my god eek lol god speed goon

# ¿ Dec 17, 2020 21:04

fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

skasion posted:

The weirdest thing is that by far the most useful boss fight for the spear-pull is Guardian Ape, but the game tells you nothing about it

dont quote me on this, but i think you can do this same trick on true corrupted monk. i only discovered the mechanic existed at all through the wiki.

# ¿ Dec 23, 2020 19:21

fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

Imhotep posted:

You can�t, but you can grapple to the tallest tree branch and jump off while she�s invisible after you do the first death blow, and aim towards the center of the bridge and right when you get near her, the death blow marker will show up and so will she and you can skip phase two. But no, you can�t use the spear.

i love that trick and i discovered it by accident the first time i fought her. i had no idea it was a secret. i just fled into the trees because i was a coward.

# ¿ Dec 23, 2020 20:17

fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

bike tory posted:

The headless are not bosses and should be ignored completely on every playthrough.

Like for real I think they set out to design the most annoying enemy they could think of. And succeeded.

there is absolutely no benefit to fighting the headless and now i skip them on every single play through i do. my god. my god. five loving times with these things.

# ¿ Dec 25, 2020 09:52

fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

bike tory posted:

You can parry it! It's an effect that hits multiple times per second though so I don't think it's possible to parry all of it.

w.

what

# ¿ Dec 26, 2020 01:27

fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

alf_pogs posted:

the lilac umbrella upgrade just completely nullifies the scream

yeah this is what i do but iirc on that first run its a lil harder to get the ingredients for it in time for monkey trouble

# ¿ Dec 26, 2020 02:44

fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

Squiggle posted:

You don't even need the lilac umbrella, any of them will totally block it.
.

WHAT???

# ¿ Dec 26, 2020 04:18

fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

fun hater posted:

WHAT???

i hate this loving game

# ¿ Dec 26, 2020 04:18

fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

its nuts that with the memory bell mechanic we didnt get the tomoe dlc they were telegraphic from space in this game. c'mon, i wanna see the fish (?) lady

# ¿ Dec 26, 2020 20:56

fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

the only thing i cant make sense of in sekiro, because otherwise its pretty straight forward and any of the extra stuff you find or want to infer is cherry on top stuff, is the timeline. the 3 years between the events of the hirata estate and the well. what happened there.

# ¿ Dec 26, 2020 23:46

fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

bike tory posted:

Tomoe is just a normal human. You see her corpse when you get to the top of fountainhead palace and activate the dragon fight

huh. that didnt really read to me as tomoe. i thought she was buried next to takeru

# ¿ Dec 27, 2020 05:48

fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

the lone shadow that spawns right before great owl shinobi blipped out of existence while i was in the middle of beating on him today. i mean like he was there one second and gone the next. he and his healthbar left but the fog doors were still up. weirdest bug i've encountered so far in this game. ive never seen a fromsoft game boss just decide to stop existing for no reason.

# ¿ Dec 31, 2020 05:56

fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

BioThermo posted:

I once had Dad go into his owl and not come out. Fucker straight up rage quit on me.

thinking about this and laughing really hard

# ¿ Dec 31, 2020 19:58

fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

g-c posted:

i�m gonna be honest i think variations of shuriken, long spark, and umbrella are all that i�ve ever touched. i hear the lazulite poison dagger is alright. i haven�t even tried the whistle or the leaf, etc and i don�t know what they�re good for lol

on an unrelated note, i spent 40-50 hours beating the game for the first time and immediately dove into NG+ and i�ve almost completed the game again already for the purification ending. wild how that works

apparently the leaf instant kills monks on senpou which is useful. the whistle is great for drawing people out one by one or making dogs/monkeys fight each other.

the one i never use is mist raven. i can't figure that one out at all lol

# ¿ Jan 31, 2021 21:19

fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

i havent finished shura ending yet but gave access to the guantlet. maybe you just have to hit the prompt to trigger access to it

# ¿ Feb 7, 2021 16:02

fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

Shear Modulus posted:

there's a cheese strat involving climbing on parts of the level that you're not meant to be on which tricks it into jumping off the cliff. i've never tried it but some of the jumps required seem super precise and may not even be that much easier than doing it legitimately

i do it every time bc im a little bitch noob and that fight is horrible and not even fun but also because its hysterically funny to watch happen

e: the trick is there's a little bit of air on the watch tower corner you can walk onto, you have to jump from THAT. not the corner itself

fun hater fucked around with this message at 19:16 on Apr 23, 2021

# ¿ Apr 23, 2021 19:14

fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

Groovelord Neato posted:

How many bosses aren't person with sword?

theres two kinds of people in this world. man with a sword, or monkey with friends

# ¿ May 2, 2021 05:29

fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

# ¿ May 23, 2021 17:10

fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

Instant Grat posted:

Thought about it for a sec, and: wow, this game does not have very many optional bosses at all. If you're going for the Purification ending, the Headless Ape (a slightly tweaked version of a previous boss) is the only optional boss in the game, I think??? Not counting the two that are exclusive to the Shura ending path.

And even then, doesn't it lock you into its boss arena once the fight starts? So if you haven't activated any of the idols past its chamber prior to defeating Guardian Ape, the rematch becomes mandatory

demon of hatred and inner father are optional (? right? i think). but it is pretty minimal huh.

# ¿ Jun 29, 2021 18:58

fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

Instant Grat posted:

Yeah I forgot about Demon of Hatred somehow, lol

I'm not counting all the "Inner" fights because they're just slightly tweaked versions of existing bosses added in a patch that you access through a menu. If you're talking about the non-gauntlet Hirata fight, then that one is mandatory for the Purification ending

im dumb i didnt mean inner father. youre right tho.

# ¿ Jun 29, 2021 19:06

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# ¿ Apr 28, 2024 13:42

fun hater: May 24, 2009; its a neat trick, but you can only do it once

he did it just to be hosed up and evil

# ¿ Oct 8, 2021 14:49

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