MULTI [OT] Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice | Rise From Every Fall

[Witcher92]

Dual Guardian apes..

Are you f**king kidding me xD

 

[nafu]

Slowly getting used to the techniques used against mini-bosses. Having said that, the difficulty level is still too high.

 

[NaNoW]

gonna get my copy ..hopefully tomorrow

 

[JANARIOO]

btw sekiro is not on EPIC STORE ROFL

 

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this boss was just a pain, worst boss in the game IMO

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and this was so far the best boss, just great back and forth, loved it

 

[Necrokiller]

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this boss was just a pain, worst boss in the game IMO

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and this was so far the best boss, just great back and forth, loved it

Fully agreed on both.

That one optional boss was a typical Soulsborne "hit and run" borefest.

 

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Fully agreed on both.

That one optional boss was a typical Soulsborne "hit and run" borefest.

yeah, the only boss in the game I found to be annoying.

On a final note, beat the final boss too.

That was an amazing fight too but i still feel

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Owl Father

is the best of the game.

 

[Necrokiller]

That was an amazing fight too but i still feel

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Owl Father

is the best of the game.

Yeah its fantastic. What I really liked was that he actually has the same movesets as us, including the Mikiri counter, and then some. Really felt like you're fighting

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your master.

 

[CerebralTiger]

typical Soulsborne "hit and run" borefest.

Come on man, reading such stuff will get me to pick up the game once again and further expose it as a boring button masher :hah:

Let me play Dreams. I'm having way more fun with that

 

[Necrokiller]

[MENTION=218]CerebralTiger[/MENTION] I don't expect DMC5 fans to shy away from button mashing. Probably realised it won't work where you left playing it. But its easier to blame lack of interest :hah:

 

[CerebralTiger]

Probably realised it won't work where you left playing it. But its easier to blame lack of interest :hah:

But but...I thought lady butterfly was a biatch :hah:

Genichiro Ashina (no damage):

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Guess what, it still works

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[Necrokiller]

[MENTION=218]CerebralTiger[/MENTION]

This is what I call boring button mashing:

And over 2 weeks to reach Genichiro after Blazing Bull? :lol:

Inb4 "didn't play it much"

 

[CerebralTiger]

This is what I call boring button mashing

This is on the normal difficulty. You can't play it like that in Hell and Hell mode :hah:

Inb4 "didn't play it much"

Much? I didn't play it at all since the last mini-boss until I saw that Soulsborne remark from you :hah:

It's a repetitive borefest. Take this boss fight against Genichiro, for instance. It's an extremely monotonous game of spamming block and attacking during his vulnerable frames. The timing for performing a mikiri counter is extremely lenient to the point where I consider it broken. A perilous attack should, you know, feel perilous. Instead, it's nothing more than a cue to land a free hit lol. The lightning reversal, despite having extremely lenient timing, is entirely unnecessary and useless, as it's not safe. Instead, Genichiro's lightning strikes can just as easily be evaded.

Based on my experience so far, after Ashina Elite and Blazing Bull, Genichiro is the easiest and most boring boss in the game lol.

 

[Necrokiller]

This is on the normal difficulty. You can't play it like that in Hell and Hell mode :hah:

I can. But I cant suffer the monotous and boring gameplay to unlock it that superficial difficulty.

I wish I could post some blast from the past moments. This forum probably hasn't seen a bigger Bayonetta and DMC hater than you :hah:

 

[CerebralTiger]

I can. But I cant suffer the monotous and boring gameplay to unlock it that superficial difficulty.

Rather unfortunate. Would've been cool to see videos of you trying :hah:

It's certainly doable with V, since his combat involves spamming buttons much like in Sekiro :hah:

 

[CerebralTiger]

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Update Version 1.03 Patch Notes (PS4, Xbox One, PC)

Improvements to Strategic Approaches

• Adjusted the efficiency and Spirit Emblem cost of the following to encourage usage and diversity of approach:
  • Prosthetic Tools: “Lazulite Sacred Flame,” “Loaded Axe” series, “Sparking Axe,” “Lazulite Axe”
  • Combat Arts: “Ashina Cross,” “Dragon Flash,” “One Mind,” “Floating Passage,” “Spiral Cloud Passage,” “Mortal Draw,” “Empowered Mortal Draw”
  • Items: “Spiritfall” series
• Reduced the Posture damage dealt by the first hit of the Combat Arts “Senpou Leaping Kicks” and “High Monk” as it was causing more damage than intended in certain cases. Posture damage dealt in the latter-half of the combo has been increased.
• Increased the Poison build-up dealt by the Prosthetic Tool “Sabimaru” against enemies that were intended to be weak against it.
• Increased the drop rate of “Divine Confetti” for Fencers in Ashina Castle.
• Adjusted loading screen tips and tutorial text, as well as adding new text.

Other Fixes

• Slightly reduced Posture and Vitality of Blazing Bull in order to improve game pacing and balance time in combat.
• Lowered the price of information sold by Anayama the Peddler.
• The Chained Ogre inside Ashina Castle is now Red Eyed.
• Fixed a bug where “Gokan’s Sugar” and “Gokan’s Spiritfall” were not mitigating player Posture damage taken while guarding or deflecting enemy attacks.
• Fixed a bug where system crashes could cause save data to become corrupted on PC.
• Fixed a bug where certain enemies would sometimes stop attacking the player.
• Fixed a bug where certain actions could not be performed after reconfiguring the controls.
• Fixed certain bugs that were allowing the player to access unexpected areas, which could result in becoming unable to obtain items or make further progress.
• Fixed cases of certain text being displayed incorrectly.
• Improved stability.
• Improved performance.
• Other various bug fixes.

Slightly reduced Posture and Vitality of Blazing Bull in order to improve game pacing and balance time in combat.

Hahah whaaaat?? :hah:

 

[Necrokiller]

Rather unfortunate. Would've been cool to see videos of you trying :hah:

It's certainly doable with V, since his combat involves spamming buttons much like in Sekiro :hah:

So what are you saying? Sekiro is a button masher but DMC5 is not?

 

[CerebralTiger]

So what are you saying? Sekiro is a button masher but DMC5 is not?

I'm saying that at its highest difficulty setting, DMC5 can only be button-mashed when playing as V, because his combat style is masher-friendly, much like how Sekiro is masher-friendly with its block/deflect mechanic.

 

[Necrokiller]

I'm saying that at its highest difficulty setting, DMC5 can only be button-mashed when playing as V, because his combat style is masher-friendly, much like how Sekiro is masher-friendly with its block/deflect mechanic.

What percentage of people played DMC5 at this said highest difficulty setting? Barely 5%.

On the other hand, Sekiro stirred up a debate about easy modes and accessibility options and what not. Pretty clear to me which of the two is a masher-friendly game.

 

[CerebralTiger]

What percentage of people played DMC5 at this said highest difficulty setting? Barely 5%.

Where did you get that 5% figure from? If by "played", you mean "finished", then only 0.5% have beaten the game on Hell and Hell difficulty on PS4 based on trophy data. It's probably a similar ratio on other platforms.

An even lesser percentage of people have 100%'ed the game on PS4 (0.2%). Meanwhile, 4.2% have done the same in Sekiro. All hail PowerPyx :hah:

On the other hand, Sekiro stirred up a debate about easy modes and accessibility options and what not.

It's the most accessible From Software game according to a UX consultant.

Sekiro: Accessibility in Games is About Far More than 'Difficulty'

And accessibility – my focus as a consultant on games, working with AAA developers like Guerrilla to Indies like Gambrinous – is an area of game design that’s often deeply misunderstood; it’s about barriers, not difficulty.

Pretty much all of the QoL improvements and existing settings lower the ‘difficulty’ for me, making Sekiro both more accessible and approachable (yes, they’re different, too). I could say the same thing about how much more forgiving the game design in Sekiro is, from timing to controls and the multiple possible play styles (stealth, charging, finesse, parrying, bashing). The fact that if I’m early for a parry most of the time that becomes a block is huge for me because I’m often way too early.