re: Official Sekiro Thread

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I was about to say that I dont remember sucking that much at Bloodborne, but then I recalled the first time I fought a werewolf and raged for hours on it.

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I was so pumped the first time I made it past the mob at the bonfire and then the dogs on the bridge proceeded to piss all in my cheerios.

I rewatched the opening story cinematic and it makes so much more sense now.

I had basically completely forgotten about it till I just rewatched it now. I recognized some parts of it visually but I realized I had very quickly 100% completely forgotten (or simply didn't pay enough attention to) any of the actual information provided.

It's hard to remember anything from a 4 minute cutscene when you start getting 10, 20, 30 hours into a game.

That tends to happen to me in these FromSoftware games. People say the stories are cryptic but the opening cutscenes actually contains a lot of pertinent information to the world and the lore. Dark Souls 1 especially, same effect happened to me in that game. I fought all the bosses mentioned in the story intro having no idea who they heck they were or what was going on really. Rewatched the opening cutscene and was like "WTF how did I not retain any of this info?"

I think what's happening is these games don't harp on the info you see in the opening so you tend to forget a lot of it pretty quickly, and you have absolutely no context when you first watch it so you don't retain much in terms of what's important and what's not.

Next FromSoftware game like this I'm going to watch the opening cut scene repeatedly and drill it into my brain.

DoH and 2 Headless are down. Time to knock out the last 3, grind a bit of endgame, then proceed to the final battle

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On the very last boss

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christ, how did you pass me up im fixing to fight him, just need to kill the last 3 headless

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I looked up how to get the secret ending and it’s so ridiculous how much obscure bull shite you have to do to get it

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i think the purification ending is the most convoluted. so much bullshite and eavesdropping, i never would've guessed to eavesdrop in kuro's room

for Return i got the 2 serpent hearts on my own and it didnt seem as complex.

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Also dragon rot was a dumb idea.

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good idea, but poorly implemented. it should've had a greater impact, but it should've applied to resurrections only - not true deaths. make people weigh the benefits and consequences of resurrecting.

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Haven’t been exploring every nook and cranny but I’ve tried to take down every miniboss I’ve seen (except for round 2 with Mr. Douchebag Seven Spears). With that said I have found a decent amount of gourd seeds, esoteric texts, and prosthetic tools so I don’t think I’ve missed too many of the important items.

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may want to explore a bit more. i have all prosthetic abilities except the 4 lapis tools, all prayer beads, all gourd seeds, and about 15k worth of purses. make sure you have everything you can get before going to NG+.

ETA: Found this for you

Checklist

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-Purchase Withered Red Gourd, Mottled Purple Gourd, Green Mossy Gourd
-Collect all Prayer Beads and Gourd Seeds
-Kill all Terror enemies
-Collect all Treasure Carp Scales
-Create Dancing Dragon Mask
-Purchase Dragonspring Sake from Mibu Memorial Merchant (I don't think all the Sake uses and combinations have been discovered, I am holding on to all of mine and Monkey Booze)
-Get the Hidden Tooth
-Purchase Five-color Rice
-Collect all Lapis Lazuli

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On final boss. It’s definitely a challenge

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Slave Knight Gael

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one of my favorite boss fights

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE SHITTING ME


SPOILERS (BOSS NAME)

















Almost broke my no resurrection rule to finish the miserable frick off, but I stayed strong. Unbelievable

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I think the final boss fight struggle finally made me a legit player.

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Absolutely. It makes every other boss seem so easy in comparison.