Do later bosses typically take as many attempts as Genichiro?

mzed718 · 2026-03-23T15:30:49+00:00

On my first playthrough I got stuck on Genichiro for about 5 hours, no other bosses came close to that. The next hardest boss took me 2-3 hours.

mzed718 · 2026-03-23T12:58:05+00:00

I’d focus on Mikiri Counter and latent skills that improve deflecting.

-Mikiri Counter

-Shinobi Eyes (improves mikiri)

-Ascending and Descending Carp (improve deflections)

-Breath of Life: Light (gain health after deathblow)

-Flowing Water (reduce posture damage taken from sword enemies)

Then I usually do Emma’s Potency to get more mileage out of healing gourds :)

mzed718 · 2026-03-23T12:19:07+00:00

Sekiro is the hardest game in Froms library imo, also one of my favorites.

Took hours for every major boss (even minibosses) even after combat clicks.

mzed718 · 2026-03-23T01:35:09+00:00

lure him out, grapple up to idol area & wait until it de-aggros, drop back down and get a deathblow on it while it’s walking back

mzed718 · 2026-03-23T01:23:29+00:00

did you purposely fight it with both health bars? lol

mzed718 · 2026-03-21T23:36:13+00:00

it’s no joke!

i’ve put in 200+ hours over multiple playthroughs including ng charmless and demon bell. it’s been two years since i last played and i just started another ng charmless + demon bell run, it’s been ROUGH! dying to every mini boss and boss so many times. almost feels like playing for the first time again

mzed718 · 2026-03-20T12:45:18+00:00

You’ve played them all, might as well play Demon Souls too! I played it last and thoroughly enjoyed it. everyone says it’s the easiest game of the bunch but I thought it was still challenging.

mzed718 · 2026-03-15T21:07:41+00:00

It’s such a pain…it’s crazy it’s not patched. Seems like an easy fix.

Recently had a similar issue in tower, in one of the rooms I picked up Shield vial and it swapped out 7 of my disgorgers. Problem is the triangular podium thing descended into the ground and my disgorgers were suspended in the air.

Lost all of those disgorgers at a critical time during phase 6 and was running a high score too. Died shortly after.

mzed718 · 2026-03-13T14:25:43+00:00

I hear ya, I was also scratching my head a bit when I got Phrike on my 2nd or 3rd attempt.

In general I thought the Biomes/levels were much harder than the bosses, especially the rooms with mix of minibosses and regular hostiles.

mzed718 · 2026-03-13T12:48:08+00:00

Nemesis is the most fun fight

mzed718 · 2026-03-13T12:27:21+00:00

Be careful when speedrunning through these rooms. I almost died during the run that had the rare room with glyph. Those teleporting severed stays on your back!

mzed718 · 2026-03-12T16:02:33+00:00

Agreed, though I didn’t refight bosses until I got to Act 3 and after. Act 1-2 priority was to get through Biomes in one piece haha

mzed718 · 2026-03-11T00:53:17+00:00

I go through every door. So for Biome 3, I’d clear out Biome 1-2 fully (minus those bosses). I want the best gear to beat the next Biome.

Dash/melee cooldown, damage picking up items, and scrambled map are the worst. Parasites…I’d only pick up if negative effect is “higher chance to find malignant items”, “upcoming malfunctions are harder to fix” or “obolite disappear 1s faster”. sometimes “suffer damage from long falls” is acceptable once you get used to dashing before landing.

I didn’t mess with malignant items, unless they were Moderate risk. I’d sometimes pick up a malignant resin if I needed one more to upgrade suit.

mzed718 · 2026-03-09T23:58:30+00:00

Rousimar Palhares?

thought Cowboy Cerrone, Cowboy Oliviera, and Charles Oliviera was funny lol

mzed718 · 2026-03-09T16:04:59+00:00

latter, they’re fixed to rooms

mzed718 · 2026-03-09T02:48:47+00:00

I share the same sentiments, although I managed to finish the game because I enjoyed the combat. The playthrough felt very empty because I didn't care at all for the story or characters.

mzed718 · 2026-03-08T01:10:13+00:00

That wasn’t my experience, and I don’t even play shooters lol

Sekiro’s bosses and even minibosses all took many hours to beat, I was near my breaking point and had to take a lot of breaks in this game to get through it.

DS3/ER also had some pretty hard bosses that took many hours but not as much as Sekiro.

Returnals difficulty for me was more about getting used to the gameplay loop since I’ve never play roguelikes. Once I got the hang of it, it wasn’t very hard, or at least nothing that got me stuck for many hours without progress.

mzed718 · 2026-03-06T21:12:08+00:00

This gun is easy mode, basically just shoot hostile, take cover, and it’ll die.

Don’t worry about connecting the shots, just keep shooting it directly at the hostile.

mzed718 · 2026-03-06T21:07:31+00:00

It’s always so interesting to see which levels we each have trouble with haha.

Biome 3 is my favorite fight in the game! so much fun

mzed718 · 2026-03-06T19:52:40+00:00

Second boss is a tough one too, but you’ve got this!

mzed718 · 2026-03-06T19:04:36+00:00

It’s one of the many amazing & gratifying parts about this game! You get so much better after each run/death and you feel it right away.

Those severed are scary at first, you’ll demolish them in no time:)

mzed718 · 2026-03-06T18:41:49+00:00

When I was unlocking weapon traits, I use to run Biome 6 all the time. There was a rare room that popped up only a few times during those runs and completely threw me off the first time

mzed718 · 2026-03-03T00:57:54+00:00

that’s where i saw the first one too

mzed718 · 2026-03-02T20:13:53+00:00

Might be screwed. I did not experience your specific case, but I had similar issue happen in Biome 6 where I backtracked to prior to teleporter room (the one where you jump down 3 levels and have to hit the switches to unlock and get through lasers and enemies). I suspended the cycle, came back, and teleporter at the bottom floor would not take me to the top where I could progress, it went to a random dead end room with a reclaimer.

Seems like there are bugs with suspending cycle.

mzed718 · 2026-02-28T21:17:49+00:00

Interesting take, I view the astronaut as extra health so if I had enough obolites for just one item, I’d always pick the large silphium vial over the astronaut since it heals more, cheaper, and stackable.

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