Yeah but if I say “just takes practice” that’s not enough. Sekiro requires getting good, but anyone can do it with enough perseverance. Very few bosses can be cheesed, and you damn sure can’t just outlevel them.
That’s not really in the spirit of what this self-fellating elephant is trying to say though.
It is incredibly frustrating and demoralizing to be struggling with a difficult section of a game and turn to the community for help, only to get a condescending “git good”.
Honestly the autofellating elephant is a fantastic meme for this because it doesn’t do anything for anyone else and serves only to make the commenter feel good.
Specific help would be like “practice parry timing” “practice dodge timing” “memorize boss attack patterns”. But that applies to all the bosses pretty much so it’s covered under “git gud”.
That would still be general help.
Specific help would be more like “this boss has [x] attack pattern that has a big punish window after it, watch out for [y] though because it has a quick follow up”.
Aside from that though, your general help is still a step up from “git good” because it’s not so damn condescending. If your entire “help” is a sarcastic zinger you’re probably not helping at all.
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.
The elephant is anatomically incorrect.
Not really
Care to elaborate?
Razzing and trash talk was always a part of gaming and I don’t see anything wrong with it in moderation
Every player who got good gets to say git gud. The people who wrote the guides you can now prosper from. The people who suffered, blind, learning through failure, encouraging you to do the same.
“Git gud” is not telling you you’re shit. It’s telling you to improve the same way those who came before you did. Through overwhelming failure.
Stop trying to get rid of the phrase and git gud.
Lmao
Another tip if that if you don’t like hard games, don’t buy them. Some of you are like school moms buying Call of Duty then get mad that they curse. You’re adults. Research what you buy. Shit is wild on so many levels.
