Here are my two cents for you as a beginner (seriously, this made me appreciate the game a lot more):
Find yourself a training partner. Any standard Samurai at the beginning will do. You need to get good at parrying. Yeah I know, I ignored that in everything From Soft before that, including Bloodborne. But in Sekiro it is the difference between “having a blast” and “dying repeatedly until you give up”.
After that you can more or less brute force your way to the top of Ashina Castle. You made it there? Good. Find one of these guys. There is one immediately after the first shrine as soon as you make it into the castle. Give him a name, I named mine Garry. Garry is harder to kill and his attacks come faster and harder. But they are still possible to read. See it as some kind of “advanced parry training”.
Do not dash forward. Do not get greedy. You don’t have to prove anything to anyone. Stay with Garry and train your parry skills. You need hours? Then stay there for hours.
As soon as you can handle Garry with ease, go into the very next room and tackle multiple Garrys. Study that blade. The next boss, at the very top of the castle, is a hard reset for many players. It’s kinda like Father Gascoigne in Bloodborne. He is hard, seemingly unfair even. But if you beat him, you can beat anything in the game.
After that boss you won’t get frustrated when coming across a strong boss, you will get exited!
This is great advice. Despite the flexibility that exists in the prosthetic weapons and combat arts, everyone essentially has to play sekiro “sekiro’s way”. You can still be more of a dodger than a parry-er, but you’re gonna have to learn the rules of both to beat the game no matter what
Dying is part of the game, just keep trying. The fun part is actually beating the bosses because you actually improved your technique. Sekiro is all about having the right timing.
Haven’t tried that mod since I’m on PS, but definitely do if you’re struggling. No point in struggling if it actively diminishes your enjoyment of the game.
It’s difficult, but that’s because it’s unforgiving. I think some enemies do too much damage, but combat and movement is a lot of fun. I mostly only get frustrated after several attempts dying to a difficult miniboss and then dying to regular enemy on the way to my next attempt.
Bought this game used a week ago. Haven’t tried to play it yet. My anxiety is increasing.
Here are my two cents for you as a beginner (seriously, this made me appreciate the game a lot more):
Find yourself a training partner. Any standard Samurai at the beginning will do. You need to get good at parrying. Yeah I know, I ignored that in everything From Soft before that, including Bloodborne. But in Sekiro it is the difference between “having a blast” and “dying repeatedly until you give up”.
After that you can more or less brute force your way to the top of Ashina Castle. You made it there? Good. Find one of these guys. There is one immediately after the first shrine as soon as you make it into the castle. Give him a name, I named mine Garry. Garry is harder to kill and his attacks come faster and harder. But they are still possible to read. See it as some kind of “advanced parry training”.
Do not dash forward. Do not get greedy. You don’t have to prove anything to anyone. Stay with Garry and train your parry skills. You need hours? Then stay there for hours.
As soon as you can handle Garry with ease, go into the very next room and tackle multiple Garrys. Study that blade. The next boss, at the very top of the castle, is a hard reset for many players. It’s kinda like Father Gascoigne in Bloodborne. He is hard, seemingly unfair even. But if you beat him, you can beat anything in the game.
After that boss you won’t get frustrated when coming across a strong boss, you will get exited!
This is great advice. Despite the flexibility that exists in the prosthetic weapons and combat arts, everyone essentially has to play sekiro “sekiro’s way”. You can still be more of a dodger than a parry-er, but you’re gonna have to learn the rules of both to beat the game no matter what
Awesome write-up. Thanks for the contribution!
Dying is part of the game, just keep trying. The fun part is actually beating the bosses because you actually improved your technique. Sekiro is all about having the right timing.
As an avid Dwarf Fortress player (Losing is Fun!) I hope I can bring over some perseverance.
If it’s on PC, try the easy mode mod.
https://www.reddit.com/r/fromsoftware/comments/uux0b5/playing_sekiro_on_easy_mode_has_been_an/
Don’t even feel bad. It’s your game. You can do whatever you want.
Haven’t tried that mod since I’m on PS, but definitely do if you’re struggling. No point in struggling if it actively diminishes your enjoyment of the game.
It’s difficult, but that’s because it’s unforgiving. I think some enemies do too much damage, but combat and movement is a lot of fun. I mostly only get frustrated after several attempts dying to a difficult miniboss and then dying to regular enemy on the way to my next attempt.
It’s ok, git gud just means persevere and prevail. The game doesn’t hurt you.