I hope they add DLC for one-on-one multiplayer combat in an arena, stealthily providing us with Bushido Blade 3
Oh god no. I don't want to pay to get my ass kicked.
Y'know what I did for literally every Souls game I ever played?
Unplugged the internet cable from the back of my PlayStation. I'm here to experience epic loneliness across the romantic backdrop of an ancient ruined civilization and hard core action, and I can do both alone, thank you very much you weird griefers!
But then you miss such classics as "Jump" and "But Whole, Try Finger"
If they don't make DLC for this successful game, I will be both surprised and enraged, which will be in keeping with my usual mental state while playing the game
1 - I support any and all examples of non-professional gamers or video editors putting their gameplay to music.
2 - I have never heard this song before, but it's pretty goddamned perfect. That said if I was gonna' do it, I'd try to set it to Monkey Baby by the Scissor Sisters.
3 - And then YouTube rolled it right over into a band called Teddybears who I've never heard of but this is pretty fun, so thank you for that ^.^ oh wait these are the guys who do Cobrastyle. Neat!
Edit: (checks watch - two hours later) I think my videos must be super-bad, because when I post one it tends to stop a thread dead. It's okay! No one has to say they like it! I like it, and that's all the affection it needs lol.
So Sekiro, right? That Loaded Umbrella sure is handy! I'm hearing that the more you block with it the more damage it'll do when you use the projected force thingie - does anyone know exactly how that works? Someone said it had to be projectile attacks, but I'm wondering if you can just let a boss wail on it and then slam them for huge damage.
Do you have to do the thing where you spin it to parry each attack, or does that not matter? I hope not, 'cause each spin = 1 spirit emblem.
Chance on
'Chance, you are the best kind of whore.' -Henroid
Jinsuke Saze is probably my favourite early game fight because of how much of a poster boy he is for deflections being awesome. Up until that point it felt as if you could muddle through using bad dark souls habits and deflections being either a really specific thing for specific moments like on blazing bull or they were just a thing you did as filler between attacks to avoid damage.
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HonkHonk is this poster.Registered User, __BANNED USERSregular
H Ape
I got him no problem tonight, it looked way scarier than it was. When it was just him it was np.
That was a fun fight and fun ending to it,
very late did I see him still twitching on the ground. Does he get back up again if you don’t do the final final deathblow on him?
What am I supposed to do now against the Headless Ape if I don't have any more confetti?
Is it even affected by confetti? I didn't use it on my run.
Focus on parrying the sword strikes to bait out the big vertical slash, there's a long recovery animation on that one.
It's a Headless, I thought I could only hurt them with confetti? Well whatever, I can only even reach the Headless form once every ten fights anyway.
The Guardian Ape is an interesting case, actually...
When you fight him with the head on, he's actually a beast-type enemy and can be well-stunned by firecrackers. Once you behead him, he becomes an apparition-type, vulnerable to confetti.
Edit: also, strats:
Once you've got its head off, it becomes about parrying its strikes. I know they're so crazy you just want to try to juke it, but it's got a certain string of attacks, and if you parry the first two attacks it will go into an overhead slam. Parry the overhead slam and it falls forward on its chest. Use the spear (hit H2 to jam the spear down its neck, then hit R2 again to yank out the centipede) for a huge damage chunk.
I didn't use confetti, or firecrackers.
Chance on
'Chance, you are the best kind of whore.' -Henroid
From what I understand, Confetti is actually a straight damage-buff regardless of enemy type, with increased damage to Apparitions. Speedrunners seem to abuse the heck out of it against everyone.
Block/Parry his nonsense.
If you see the grab warning tap jump.
If you see the grab warning and he’s doing his belly flop dodge/run to the side.
When he finishes his combo and either flops around in his back or sits down facing away or finished with the jumping hand slam get in a few attacks.
Attack his rear when he turns away to prompt a fart. Dodge to the side. He’ll always follow that up with the jumping projectile. When he jumps run towards him a bit and he’ll miss you and land right behind you for a couple more hits. You can parry this also.
If you’re quick you can cancel the stationary grab with the Firecrackers for free damage and big posture damage.
For phase 2.
Stand still.
When the alert goes off tap jump for the sweeps.
Block/Parry as much as possible to prompt his big slam attack. Parry this to stun him, then double tap the spear on him to do huge vitality and posture damage.
If you have the Phoenix Lilac Shield you can use that to totally block his scream, if not just run away and don’t get too greedy with attacks between combos to be locked into an animation when it starts.
Don’t block his non sweep attack when he slides toward you and slashes across the ground, you can jump this and attack quicker afterwords.
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Ninja Snarl PMy helmet is my burden.Ninja Snarl: Gone, but not forgotten.Registered Userregular
Wrapping up the ape fight is all down to parrying. If you parry his attack string, he follows up with a big, slow overhead strike that is easily parried; parry it and he falls over to deal some easy damage. He also has a big, but faster, attack he'll do outside an attack string which can also be parried to make him fall down. No need for any confetti at all.
Unfortunately, there's just no getting around the fact that he's a big unfun pile of health and it takes awhile to chip away at it. The latter half of the fight is far easier than the first half, when you figure out to parry his attacks to force him to fall over. But deal your 2-3 attacks of damage and fucking run. Just run the fuck away. It isn't hard to get back in position, but it's real easy to get smoked by his AoE attack if you aren't already well out of range.
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Adapting to the ape didn't take me long at all, he has a ton of simple openings. It's just an endurance trial, and a dash of luck.
Genichiro is my new favorite video game bossfight ever.
Took me like 2 hours, half last night and half tonight, to finally get his number. By the end of it I had his first part on 100% lockdown status, in his face 100% of the time and parrying every single attack he made, not letting him do anything at all. But it was still 100% Ass Clench City by the end of it, every time. That's how a good boss fight should go.
There was a steam sig here. It's gone now.
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Ninja Snarl PMy helmet is my burden.Ninja Snarl: Gone, but not forgotten.Registered Userregular
Adapting to the ape didn't take me long at all, he has a ton of simple openings. It's just an endurance trial, and a dash of luck.
And not being worn out when you get to phase 2.
Most of my attempts were trying to find any way to beat him that didn't involve an utterly, utterly tedious HP slog; I figured all the trees around were supposed to indicate some kind of weakness. Nope, long and boring as hell is pretty much the only way to do the fight. I'd gladly trade it for having to just set down the controller for 15 minutes and wait for a timer to run out instead.
Ninja Snarl P on
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cj iwakuraThe Rhythm RegentBears The Name FreedomRegistered Userregular
Adapting to the ape didn't take me long at all, he has a ton of simple openings. It's just an endurance trial, and a dash of luck.
And not being worn out when you get to phase 2.
Most of my attempts were trying to find any way to beat him that didn't involve an utterly, utterly tedious HP slog; I figured all the trees around were supposed to indicate some kind of weakness. Nope, long and boring as hell is pretty much the only way to do the fight. I'd gladly trade it for having to just set down the controller for 15 minutes and wait for a timer to run out instead.
You only have to get in around 7-8 hits on form 1 to stagger him, and every red symbol is basically a beacon to jump up and get even more free hits. The only thing I had trouble effectively dodging was his temper tantrum roll, sometimes he'd roll right over Sekiro and do no damage. So far I've gotten the second form down pretty quick too, once I stopped being scared of parrying.
Adapting to the ape didn't take me long at all, he has a ton of simple openings. It's just an endurance trial, and a dash of luck.
And not being worn out when you get to phase 2.
Most of my attempts were trying to find any way to beat him that didn't involve an utterly, utterly tedious HP slog; I figured all the trees around were supposed to indicate some kind of weakness. Nope, long and boring as hell is pretty much the only way to do the fight. I'd gladly trade it for having to just set down the controller for 15 minutes and wait for a timer to run out instead.
Adapting to the ape didn't take me long at all, he has a ton of simple openings. It's just an endurance trial, and a dash of luck.
And not being worn out when you get to phase 2.
Most of my attempts were trying to find any way to beat him that didn't involve an utterly, utterly tedious HP slog; I figured all the trees around were supposed to indicate some kind of weakness. Nope, long and boring as hell is pretty much the only way to do the fight. I'd gladly trade it for having to just set down the controller for 15 minutes and wait for a timer to run out instead.
Well... I think if I played like I did on summer breaks as a kid, I could probably pull it off.
Like, if I didn't have a day job and then people at home to take care of, I like to think I could do it. Or I imagine this dude's a streamer - so, if playing video games were literally my day job? Yeah I think I could do it.
Maybe.
'Chance, you are the best kind of whore.' -Henroid
Genichiro is my new favorite video game bossfight ever.
Took me like 2 hours, half last night and half tonight, to finally get his number. By the end of it I had his first part on 100% lockdown status, in his face 100% of the time and parrying every single attack he made, not letting him do anything at all. But it was still 100% Ass Clench City by the end of it, every time. That's how a good boss fight should go.
That really is a cool boss fight. It makes you feel like a badass. Then when you think it can't get cooler you start hurling lightning back at the mofo in midair and you feel like a god.
Genichiro is my new favorite video game bossfight ever.
Took me like 2 hours, half last night and half tonight, to finally get his number. By the end of it I had his first part on 100% lockdown status, in his face 100% of the time and parrying every single attack he made, not letting him do anything at all. But it was still 100% Ass Clench City by the end of it, every time. That's how a good boss fight should go.
That really is a cool boss fight. It makes you feel like a badass. Then when you think it can't get cooler you start hurling lightning back at the mofo in midair and you feel like a god.
To me it was 2 things. First of all, him leaping above me and ping ping ping ping rapid-firing arrows at me as I ching ching ching ching parry them out of the air - incredible - and his long string. Ching ching - I can get one slash in, in the middle of the string - ching ching ching chin... CHINNNG!
And he's going crazy on me and I'm just chill. Totally agree - it's either one of or the best video game boss fight I've ever played.
Chance on
'Chance, you are the best kind of whore.' -Henroid
Owl 2: Hirata, followed by Guardian Ape because the surprise Phase 2 was just the best thing.
But I love fighting Owl. Genichiro you can just parry your way to a posture victory going clang clang clang thrust counter clang clang clang.
But you can't do that with Owl. First of all, you're not winning that posture battle and secondly, he jumps away so much you can't stay on him even if you could win it. You have to get his Vitality down. So you've got to defend against his insane reach with that sword and still find a way to get some damage in after a combo. Also his music at Ashina Castle is great, and his character design is great.
Genichiro is my new favorite video game bossfight ever.
Took me like 2 hours, half last night and half tonight, to finally get his number. By the end of it I had his first part on 100% lockdown status, in his face 100% of the time and parrying every single attack he made, not letting him do anything at all. But it was still 100% Ass Clench City by the end of it, every time. That's how a good boss fight should go.
That really is a cool boss fight. It makes you feel like a badass. Then when you think it can't get cooler you start hurling lightning back at the mofo in midair and you feel like a god.
Uh yeah...I definitely hurled lightning back at him and felt totally badass.
Owl 2: Hirata, followed by Guardian Ape because the surprise Phase 2 was just the best thing.
But I love fighting Owl. Genichiro you can just parry your way to a posture victory going clang clang clang thrust counter clang clang clang.
But you can't do that with Owl. First of all, you're not winning that posture battle and secondly, he jumps away so much you can't stay on him even if you could win it. You have to get his Vitality down. So you've got to defend against his insane reach with that sword and still find a way to get some damage in after a combo. Also his music at Ashina Castle is great, and his character design is great.
Owl 2: Hirata, followed by Guardian Ape because the surprise Phase 2 was just the best thing.
But I love fighting Owl. Genichiro you can just parry your way to a posture victory going clang clang clang thrust counter clang clang clang.
But you can't do that with Owl. First of all, you're not winning that posture battle and secondly, he jumps away so much you can't stay on him even if you could win it. You have to get his Vitality down. So you've got to defend against his insane reach with that sword and still find a way to get some damage in after a combo. Also his music at Ashina Castle is great, and his character design is great.
I really like Owl. Is what I'm saying.
I was whatever about Owl as a character until
"that's my boy"
Tbh I never thought much of Owl from day one.
"Oh look - a traumatized child has been abandoned here among these slaughtered soldiers. I know just what to do - I'll slice his face open just a little bit, because it entertains me. Whoah-hoh, he's grabbin' my sword! This kid wants to get cut. I think I'll adopt this one."
(Takes little Wolf by the hand and leads him past all the other children who just started crying when Owl cut their faces.)
"Don't mind them," Owl tells little Wolf, "they were all pussies."
'Chance, you are the best kind of whore.' -Henroid
Genichiro is my new favorite video game bossfight ever.
Took me like 2 hours, half last night and half tonight, to finally get his number. By the end of it I had his first part on 100% lockdown status, in his face 100% of the time and parrying every single attack he made, not letting him do anything at all. But it was still 100% Ass Clench City by the end of it, every time. That's how a good boss fight should go.
That really is a cool boss fight. It makes you feel like a badass. Then when you think it can't get cooler you start hurling lightning back at the mofo in midair and you feel like a god.
Uh yeah...I definitely hurled lightning back at him and felt totally badass.
Definitely something I did.
Divine Heir: How many times did you die getting here? Was it once? Twice? Three times?
Sekiro: ummm... more than that...
Divine Heir: Six times?
Sekiro: umm....
Divine Heir: Ten? Was it more then ten?
Sekiro: no no no... it wasn't more than ten... oh you mean in total, not just this boss? Yeah it's way more than ten....
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cj iwakuraThe Rhythm RegentBears The Name FreedomRegistered Userregular
Genichiro is my new favorite video game bossfight ever.
Took me like 2 hours, half last night and half tonight, to finally get his number. By the end of it I had his first part on 100% lockdown status, in his face 100% of the time and parrying every single attack he made, not letting him do anything at all. But it was still 100% Ass Clench City by the end of it, every time. That's how a good boss fight should go.
That really is a cool boss fight. It makes you feel like a badass. Then when you think it can't get cooler you start hurling lightning back at the mofo in midair and you feel like a god.
Uh yeah...I definitely hurled lightning back at him and felt totally badass.
Definitely something I did.
Divine Heir: How many times did you die getting here? Was it once? Twice? Three times?
Sekiro: ummm... more than that...
Divine Heir: Six times?
Sekiro: umm....
Divine Heir: Ten? Was it more then ten?
Sekiro: no no no... it wasn't more than ten... oh you mean in total, not just this boss? Yeah it's way more than ten....
Genichiro is my new favorite video game bossfight ever.
Took me like 2 hours, half last night and half tonight, to finally get his number. By the end of it I had his first part on 100% lockdown status, in his face 100% of the time and parrying every single attack he made, not letting him do anything at all. But it was still 100% Ass Clench City by the end of it, every time. That's how a good boss fight should go.
That really is a cool boss fight. It makes you feel like a badass. Then when you think it can't get cooler you start hurling lightning back at the mofo in midair and you feel like a god.
Uh yeah...I definitely hurled lightning back at him and felt totally badass.
Definitely something I did.
Divine Heir: How many times did you die getting here? Was it once? Twice? Three times?
Sekiro: ummm... more than that...
Divine Heir: Six times?
Sekiro: umm....
Divine Heir: Ten? Was it more then ten?
Sekiro: no no no... it wasn't more than ten... oh you mean in total, not just this boss? Yeah it's way more than ten....
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But then you miss such classics as "Jump" and "But Whole, Try Finger"
Also makes for an easy to use checklist without a guide telling you specifically where everything is.
Potential spoilers of course since it shows all locations and the names of all bosses.
https://i.redd.it/exzdhwwjrtp21.jpg
Nah, missed it on first playthrough, this is second playthrough. So I need to either beat a dumb bonus boss again or play up to blue rocks time again.
Neat!
Okay, four things:
1 - I support any and all examples of non-professional gamers or video editors putting their gameplay to music.
2 - I have never heard this song before, but it's pretty goddamned perfect. That said if I was gonna' do it, I'd try to set it to Monkey Baby by the Scissor Sisters.
3 - And then YouTube rolled it right over into a band called Teddybears who I've never heard of but this is pretty fun, so thank you for that ^.^ oh wait these are the guys who do Cobrastyle. Neat!
4 -
Edit: (checks watch - two hours later) I think my videos must be super-bad, because when I post one it tends to stop a thread dead. It's okay! No one has to say they like it! I like it, and that's all the affection it needs lol.
So Sekiro, right? That Loaded Umbrella sure is handy! I'm hearing that the more you block with it the more damage it'll do when you use the projected force thingie - does anyone know exactly how that works? Someone said it had to be projectile attacks, but I'm wondering if you can just let a boss wail on it and then slam them for huge damage.
Do you have to do the thing where you spin it to parry each attack, or does that not matter? I hope not, 'cause each spin = 1 spirit emblem.
That was a fun fight and fun ending to it,
My heart is going to pound out of my chest.
It may be the worst boss fight From has ever done
PSN/Steam/NNID: SyphonBlue | BNet: SyphonBlue#1126
PSN/Steam/NNID: SyphonBlue | BNet: SyphonBlue#1126
Is it even affected by confetti? I didn't use it on my run.
Focus on parrying the sword strikes to bait out the big vertical slash, there's a long recovery animation on that one.
It's a Headless, I thought I could only hurt them with confetti? Well whatever, I can only even reach the Headless form once every ten fights anyway.
PSN/Steam/NNID: SyphonBlue | BNet: SyphonBlue#1126
The Guardian Ape is an interesting case, actually...
Edit: also, strats:
I didn't use confetti, or firecrackers.
Stand still.
Block/Parry his nonsense.
If you see the grab warning tap jump.
If you see the grab warning and he’s doing his belly flop dodge/run to the side.
When he finishes his combo and either flops around in his back or sits down facing away or finished with the jumping hand slam get in a few attacks.
Attack his rear when he turns away to prompt a fart. Dodge to the side. He’ll always follow that up with the jumping projectile. When he jumps run towards him a bit and he’ll miss you and land right behind you for a couple more hits. You can parry this also.
If you’re quick you can cancel the stationary grab with the Firecrackers for free damage and big posture damage.
Stand still.
When the alert goes off tap jump for the sweeps.
Block/Parry as much as possible to prompt his big slam attack. Parry this to stun him, then double tap the spear on him to do huge vitality and posture damage.
If you have the Phoenix Lilac Shield you can use that to totally block his scream, if not just run away and don’t get too greedy with attacks between combos to be locked into an animation when it starts.
Don’t block his non sweep attack when he slides toward you and slashes across the ground, you can jump this and attack quicker afterwords.
Unfortunately, there's just no getting around the fact that he's a big unfun pile of health and it takes awhile to chip away at it. The latter half of the fight is far easier than the first half, when you figure out to parry his attacks to force him to fall over. But deal your 2-3 attacks of damage and fucking run. Just run the fuck away. It isn't hard to get back in position, but it's real easy to get smoked by his AoE attack if you aren't already well out of range.
And not being worn out when you get to phase 2.
Took me like 2 hours, half last night and half tonight, to finally get his number. By the end of it I had his first part on 100% lockdown status, in his face 100% of the time and parrying every single attack he made, not letting him do anything at all. But it was still 100% Ass Clench City by the end of it, every time. That's how a good boss fight should go.
Most of my attempts were trying to find any way to beat him that didn't involve an utterly, utterly tedious HP slog; I figured all the trees around were supposed to indicate some kind of weakness. Nope, long and boring as hell is pretty much the only way to do the fight. I'd gladly trade it for having to just set down the controller for 15 minutes and wait for a timer to run out instead.
You only have to get in around 7-8 hits on form 1 to stagger him, and every red symbol is basically a beacon to jump up and get even more free hits. The only thing I had trouble effectively dodging was his temper tantrum roll, sometimes he'd roll right over Sekiro and do no damage. So far I've gotten the second form down pretty quick too, once I stopped being scared of parrying.
Also apparently if you deflect a certain attack at phase 2 and use the spear pull you will do something amazing to it
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
So basically the first Snake-eyes fight 8-)
You can actually just stunlock him.
And here's how to beat him in 2 minutes, the guy is even using base vitality/posture so its possible no matter how many upgrades you've gotten.
Like, if I didn't have a day job and then people at home to take care of, I like to think I could do it. Or I imagine this dude's a streamer - so, if playing video games were literally my day job? Yeah I think I could do it.
Maybe.
That really is a cool boss fight. It makes you feel like a badass. Then when you think it can't get cooler you start hurling lightning back at the mofo in midair and you feel like a god.
To me it was 2 things. First of all, him leaping above me and ping ping ping ping rapid-firing arrows at me as I ching ching ching ching parry them out of the air - incredible - and his long string. Ching ching - I can get one slash in, in the middle of the string - ching ching ching chin... CHINNNG!
And he's going crazy on me and I'm just chill. Totally agree - it's either one of or the best video game boss fight I've ever played.
But I love fighting Owl. Genichiro you can just parry your way to a posture victory going clang clang clang thrust counter clang clang clang.
But you can't do that with Owl. First of all, you're not winning that posture battle and secondly, he jumps away so much you can't stay on him even if you could win it. You have to get his Vitality down. So you've got to defend against his insane reach with that sword and still find a way to get some damage in after a combo. Also his music at Ashina Castle is great, and his character design is great.
I really like Owl. Is what I'm saying.
Uh yeah...I definitely hurled lightning back at him and felt totally badass.
Definitely something I did.
PSN/Steam/NNID: SyphonBlue | BNet: SyphonBlue#1126
I was whatever about Owl as a character until
Tbh I never thought much of Owl from day one.
(Takes little Wolf by the hand and leads him past all the other children who just started crying when Owl cut their faces.)
"Don't mind them," Owl tells little Wolf, "they were all pussies."
Divine Heir: How many times did you die getting here? Was it once? Twice? Three times?
Sekiro: ummm... more than that...
Divine Heir: Six times?
Sekiro: umm....
Divine Heir: Ten? Was it more then ten?
Sekiro: no no no... it wasn't more than ten... oh you mean in total, not just this boss? Yeah it's way more than ten....
"...do you need a pen and paper?"
"No, my Lord, what I need is a fucking tank."