Hands down the most rewarding gaming experience.

Learning patterns, practicing patience (especially during Owl fights), just wow.

Never been a From Software guy, but this was just awesome to platinum. No reload save bs, 4 straight playthroughs, all of them equally entertaining. Can’t force the same enthusiasm in me playing other fromsoft games, so I honestly hope for something new in this universe.

I'm a huge fan of "FromSoft" games and have already Platinumed Elden Ring and beat the DLC. I decided that Sekiro, Shadows Die Twice would be my next adventure, I already have a good understanding of deflecting, guarding and attacking, as well as all of the other fighting/movement gimmicks. I just got to hirata estate and am looking for the lady butterfly. I say all this to say, anything I should grab first before I continue the story, any pointers or tricks for battle? I'd really like to know.

Playing this game is like holding my inner Prime Mike Tyson, I WAS LOSING IT BECAUSE OF THE BOSSES! I WAS HOLDING MY Ancestors primal rage from beating the living daylight out of my TV that would make Child abuse looks like toys, but overall a good game

I got Jumped by a couple of Monkeys on the Freezing mountains..

I got the shinobi esoteric text but the prosthetic skill tree isn’t showing up.

Beat the game on my first play through fairly quickly and about to start new game+. Just curious about how much more difficult new game+ is compared to base game

Recently found out that you can deflect lightning attacks using the mid-air deflect martial and have now been abusing it against bosses with lightning attacks as it allows me to quickly reversal it without taking tonnes of damage. Could someone please add a trivia part onto the mid-air deflections page saying this as i cannot?

I have 5 gourds and 3 necklaces what do I do to prep for genichiro(how do I get to the bosses)

I can’t hit the bull any tips on dodging I have firecrackers they help but I still get hit by his attacks when I either run out or when he is immune to them

What do the pink circles mean near my health

I’m at hasira estate and I’m struggling I only have 2gourds am I just bad or am I not supposed to be here yet I haven’t fought any bosses

Bosses

Headless Ape: Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V

Inner Genichiro:

Me: "I've beaten him before several times, it won't be so hard"

Genichiro: *instantly kills me with Sakura Dance*

Inner Father: "STOP FCKIN TELEPORTING ALL THE TIME!"

Inner Isshin:

Me: "Gun? I deflect it! Dragon Flash? I dodge it!

Isshin: "Lighting!"

Me: "Meh..Lighting Reversal!"

Isshin: "Lighting Reversal Reversal!"

Me: "Reve...WHAT?"

Emma, the Gentle Blade:

Sekiro: *brutaly murders the kind doctor who helped him through the whole game*

Me: "I hate my life"

Ashina Isshin:

Isshin: "Omae Wa Mou Shindeiru"

Me: "NANI?!" *gets sliced into thousand pieces, anime style*

Mini Bosses

Leader Shigenori Yamauchi:

Me: "You do realize I'm gonna kill you in 2 seconds in every ng+ run, right?"

General Naomori Kawarada:

Me in ng+: "General Kawarada. Our long awaited meeting has come at last. When I left you, I was but a learner, but now I am the master."

General Tenzen Yamauchi:

General Tamagochi, who isn't my tomodachi.

General Kuranosuke Matsumoto:

Me, jumping behind him: "Hello there"

*instantly gets shot into pieces*

Chained Ogre:

AND HIS NAME IS JOHN CENA!!

Great Serpent:

"Earthquake."

"No, captain. It's a GIANT FCKIN SNAKE, AND OH MY GOD, IT'S LOOKING AT ME!

Blazing Bull:

The worst rodeo in the Sengoku period.

Jinsuke Saze:

Me: "Oh, it's a guy..aaaaand I'm dead."

Shichimen Warrior, 1st encounter:

Me: "Pffft, you fool! You brought magic into a sword fight!

SW: *kills me instantly with a terror blast*

Headless:

NOPE! I'm not fighting with this sht!

Seven Ashina Spears - Shikibu Toshikatsu Yamauchi:

SAS: "Why are you keep stabbing me in the back?!

Me: "Cuz it's easy. And it takes out a whole healthbar."

Lone Shadow:

LS: "Good job in defeating me. I hope you'll like fighting with all my identical twin brothers. We are everywhere! "

Long Arm Centipede:

Me: "Dear Long Arm Edward Scissor Hand, what the f is wrong with your face?! "

LAC: *turns me into confetti*

Armored Warrior:

ROBERTOOOOOOOO

Snake Eyes Shirafuji/Shirahagi:

Me: "Pfft, that's just a gun, it's gonna be too easy."

Snake Eyes: *slams the barrel of the gun into my stomach, turning my insides into outsides*

Shichimen Warrior, 2nd encounter:

SW: "Are you just gonna keep hiding under that shield, all the time?"

Me: "Yup...that's the plan."

Mist Noble:

Mist Noble, Destroyer of the Worlds, Slayer of Legends, The Greatest Boss of All Time...aaaand he's dead.

O'Rin of the Water:

Signature FromSoft pretty lady, who's stronger than the area's boss, stuff of nightmares.

Shinobi Hunter Enshin of Misen:

Seriously, he's just a Mikiri Counter practice.

Juzou, the Drunkard:

Nogami Gensai, charging into battle: "I AM NOGAMI GENSAI!

Juzou: *vomits straight onto the guy*

NG: "I fckin quit."

Tokujiro, the Glutton:

You interrupted his Sake party with the boys, prepare to die.

Shigekichi of the Red Guard:

Juzou, but older, and can breath fire.

Seven Ashina Spears - Shume Masaji Oniwa:

Samurai General: "Why did you stab me in the back?"

Me: "Cuz it's easy. And I can do puppeter ninjutsu on you"

Sakura Bull of the Palace:

Worst rodeo in the Sengoku period, corpse edition.

Okami Leader Shizu:

Local football star forced to retire after a sports injury, related to a shinobi, and a ton of poison.

Ujinari Mizuo:

Saze on drugs. Still kills me in a second.

I'm currently going through ng+ and have decided to try some new stuff, like meeting the high priest of Senpou. While I was there, I snatched the monkey booze at the demon bell. Since Emma doesn't take the sake at tat point of the story I chose to just give it to the Sculptor and I expected to see the line: "Sculptor: It was from his unique ring... Whistling through that ring... Would fill the valley with a somber melody." as is written in the sake-section of the Sculptor's article. But I'm pretty sure the subtitles said "her unique ring", now I know that the "his" is most likely a mistranslation (due to the Japanese pronoun being gender-neutral but most evidence pointing at Kingfisher having been a woman), but It'd be news to me if they had fixed that (also my audio was in Jp, so Idk if he'd have said "his").

So is there someone who could verify this, perhaps by just forcing the conversation using console-commands? Because my only options would be to either start a new-game run or finish ng+ to give him the monkey booze in ng++.

Genichiro, 1st encounter: You know what? Just take my arm, the Sculptor will give me a cooler one.

Gyobu Oniwa: MY NAAAME IS GYOBU MASATAKA ONIWA!

Lady Butterfly:

1st phase: I really have to fight an old lady? That doesn't sounds too bad....aaaand I'm dead.

2nd phase: "Now, Wolf, I show you what Prince Lothric taught me"

Genichiro Ashina:

1st-2nd phase: You're actually a cool, relatable dude, and fighting with you is pretty awesome, but YOU TOOK MY BEST BOY, SO YOU'LL PAY!

3rd phase: Why are you taking off your clothes?

Folding Screen Monkeys:

Playing tag with the boys.

Guardian Ape:

1st phase: Did you just throw poop at me? Alright sir, we are done here!

2nd phase: It's all cool, but WHAT THE HELL IS IN YOUR NECK?!

Corrupted Monk:

I wonder how many of your attacks I can deflect..aaand she's dead.

Great Shinobi Owl:

Papa, I will not betray Lord Kuro. He made me sweet rice balls. Did you made me rice balls? No, you stabbed me in the back. Literaly. Also...DID YOU JUST FCKIN MIKIRI COUNTERED ME?!

Owl (Father):

No offense, but it almost feels like as if you hate me, or smt. Anyhow, STOP THROWING GUNPOWDER INTO MY FACE!

True Monk:

Why deflect, when I can just dodge...*fell off the bridge*

Divine Dragon:

1st phase: What the hell is even that?!

2nd phase: Yhorm 2.0, now with extra lightning.

Demon of Hatred:

You know, Sculptor, I can't make your wish come true if you keep turning me into roasted chicken! Also, trauma *Finger whistling malcontent*

Genichiro, last encounter:

I don't care how epic your new sword is, you stabbed Lord Kuro! Also, put on a fckin shirt.

Isshin, the Sword Saint:

1st phase: It's just you and me, old man!

2nd phase: Is that a fckin gun?!

3rd phase: Sword? Check. Spear? Check. Gun? Check. Lighting? Check.

Where the hell you got all these?!

Because my experience with this boss was disappointing. After such fights as Oniwa Gyoubu, Lady Butterfly, Genichiro, and even the Folding Screen Monkeys I expected this fight to be just as great. (We have immortality, dragons with swords, so a Samurai Ape would've been cool as well). My experience:

A standard, overused rampaging enemy, what just keeps jumping around, destroying stuff, and throwing literal sh!t around. The second phase seemed promising, with the Ape picking up the sword, but it pretty much disappointed me.

To me this boss was basic, and uninteresting, it wasn't as thrilling as Genichiro or Lady Butterfly.

However I spotted that literaly everybody is obsessed with this boss, so I'm curious why.

After playing DS3-DS2-and a tiny bit of DS1 I just got Sekiro recently, and I am kinda stuck. The first general keeps killing me, and I wonder if anyone has any general advices for me.

Few notes: Nevermind, figured it out.