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KoopahTroopah
The koopas, the troopas.Philadelphia, PARegistered User regular
The koopas, the troopas.Philadelphia, PARegistered User regular
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
Developer: FromSoftware
Platform: PC, PS4, XBO
Genre: Single Player, Souls-Like, Action-Adventure
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Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is an action-adventure game played from a third-person view. Compared to FromSoftware's Souls series, the game features fewer role-playing elements, lacking character creation and the ability to level up a variety of stats, as well as having no multiplayer elements. It does, however, include gear upgrading, a skill tree, and limited ability customization. Rather than attacking to whittle an enemy's health points, combat in Sekiro revolves around using a katana to attack their poise and balance instead, which eventually leads to an opening that allows for a single killing blow. The game also features stealth elements, allowing players to immediately eliminate enemies if they can get in range undetected. In addition, the player character has the ability to use various tools to assist with combat and exploration, such as a grappling hook and a torch. If the player character dies, they have the option of being revived on the spot under certain conditions instead of respawning at earlier checkpoints.
Per Echo's executive order, I figured I would make a new thread to get us started. I've only put 5-6 hours into the game but I love it.
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I explored the starting area and killed a spooky boi, but now all my divine confetti is gone and I'm pretty sure there's more bosses in this haunted place.
NPC storyline spoiler
The reward he was protecting though...
Purple Ninja was an awesome surprise to me. I was hunting for what he was guarding and just set off down the path not knowing what was waiting for me. Our battle was legendary!
Also beat the bull last night. A bunch of folks here and in other forums were saying the trick is just to always be sprinting around, but I found he was still whackin' me, so I just kinda' gathered my wits, waited for him to charge me and clang! - deflected it lol. The Bull rears back like "whoahhhh didn't see that comin'!"
Ugh this game feels so good to play once it clicks.
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I am worried the guy fits the description for the guy the info broker asked me to find--someone big and tough to go scavenge weapons from the battlefield. I don't think he actually does since he seemed to be an 'enemy', just a dull-witted/yokai charmed one.
Also, really enjoy drinking sake with my allies and getting some story time.
Mibu Village Spoilers:
I'm at the bull now. The boss before that I managed to take down the first try, and then, feeling like a badass, I proceeded to get stomped into the dirt by the bull multiple times. Gonna have to try deflecting him.
Guard/deflect - none of his stuff is unblockable that I found, but if you don't nail the deflect and guard it instead, you'll take a big posture hit. Still, better than an HP hit imo.
Also the firecrackers are terribly useful, but it was really hard to get the distance and timing on him, for me.
It doesn't open up until after the boss boss and a miniboss beyond the
It's it's like the breakable souls in the Souls games.
That's also why you can buy them. You have 1000 gold in your pocket and you're afraid to lose it by dying? Buy 2 large gold bags. Now that money is safe.
The candies just do what they say. They give you a short buff of whatever kind is in the description. Treat them like consumables in any other game. Use them if you like them or just sell them if you prefer money.
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Yeah we're still in the village, 3clipse - we haven't even gotten to Hyrule Field yet ^.^
It seems like you wouldn't want to just be stockpiling money unless you intend to buy something right away.
Am I missing something?
Hold dodge down and run a LOT. Get in there when he's trying to steer (GET IT?!). If you can get near his hind legs when he's not moving try and see if you can bait into his head thrash. It's probably better to avoid deflecting because he'll still move you all over the place. But otherwise I just kept B held down the entire time and ran in for a few hits, then ran out. Was very manageable, deflecting never worked well for me.
Correct. Use them when you want to grind some money.
Ultimately, there is a lot of very costly stuff (like upgrading your prosthetic), and I would rather not take time to literally "grind" a zone.
Oh yea, I mean I haven't really run into too much I couldn't buy without using those yet. I have bought all the coin purses from the vendors currently available to me without using a single balloon yet. The only thing available for me to buy currently that I haven't is the 3000sen upgrade at the one merchant. So I could pop one to farm that up, but that leans more to the "wait until you see something you want" idea. I don't really see any benefit to just popping those right away. That's just a risk for no real purpose it seems.
I never use the balloons but I feel like I should
In Souls I was always okay with grinding once in a while for souls or items or whatever, but in Sekiro I seriously enjoy it. The combat itself is just way, way more fun than I expected it to be - I love just the act of playing this game - and my reward for a bit of said joy is a really meaningful skill. A whole new combat move or a strong new defensive ability or my health pots get way more effective.
In a Souls game unless you were grinding to buy an item to upgrade your weapon, the reward was always 1 point in Str or Dex or Vit - a pebble on a beach that never really felt like it turned a tide. In Sekiro when you spend your skill points it's like "look out, world, 'cause now I've got a spinny-aroundy attack!"
I mean, consumables are useful in many games. But people still don't like using them. And they may only fetch like 20sen a pop but when you have a bunch of them that can be enough to exchange for a few bags of gold.
Ideally it would be the Shinobi tree ultimate one.
But it costing Emblems makes it less interesting because it's then directly competing with usage of tools.
Hrmmmmmm.
Oh good! I was afraid I was somehow missing a bunch of areas super hard.
If not that could be something to try.
I just don't want a skill that's primary use is against regular enemies.
Plus, you get tons. I use the attack buff candies all the time, and I still have like 20 in storage.
You can continue to use arts that take emblems once run out of the ones on hand. I'm not sure if it's a bug or if it starts eating into your reserves since I only noticed late last night.
Oh no, you see I'm not stockpiling them. That's why I'm selling them.
I just don't enjoy temporary consumable buffs.
Is that the slow-build overhead power strike? No it's not - I was using it on the bull, at least - but he's only the first boss I've fought since using it. I doubt Lady Butterfly would give me the chance to use it on her, unless I was like standing right where she lands after you knock her out of her air attack with a shuriken.
Is the story spoiler one good?
I was hoping it would be because I'd certainly like to make that my primary thingy at that point.
Those are mini-bosses. A real boss will have a blocked off boss arena.
And there's another route that direction you are missing. Where the other save spot is.
I think I've gone about as far as I can go before killing the horseman boss, killed the ogre, and hurt the snake, accidentally killed the mini-boss after the ogre (He suicided off a cliff while i was running away from him). Got up to the burning area in the memory, but havent pushed the mini-boss big guy yet.
I feel i need to grind some skills, but its kinda slow going. Whats the best place to farm xp and money this early in the game?
Bosses freakin scare me in this game.
Where the apparition is?