@@ashwinc3789 ye if you watch his video where he’s fighting the final boss he had to cheese it to win. I love Charlie and normally his reviews are pretty fair but he clearly wasn’t too comfortable with the combat or upgrades in the game which probably hurt his experience a lot
I didnt like his attitude towards the whole entire playthrough of the game tbh... He read like 10% of all the text and story in this game and paid more attention to how many subs he was gaining then to the story. At one point he litterally asked his chat if Owl (he just fought him) was the final boss.... Come on man. He was also constantly complaining about the story and that it wasnt that interesting, but thats what you get when you dont listen and read and keep shouting bullshit about Kuro being stupid and that severing immortality was the "Bad Ending". I usually love Moist alot but this playthrough at some moments.. Made me so frustrated.
When mini bosses have troops around them you're supposed to stealth kill them to thin the numbers and then fight the boss one on one. You're a ninja not a knight clad in full armor who can take on more than 2 enemies at once.
Yeah and him saying that he doesn't use the prostatic clearly indicates to me that he doesn't use stealth. The shuriken is invaluable for stealth and thinning out groups of enemies
That's not a cheese, it's a legit tactic allowed by the game. Cheese would be abusing the game's AI somehow that they can't get to you while you chip away their health.
SuperArppis it’s a tactic that gets people to beat the game for you, if you sit back and don’t do anything and you kill the boss I consider it a cheese
"the martial arts tree is useless" "The final boss was unfair" Bruh, the martial arts attacks do so much posture damage. Were super useful against the final boss fight especially lol.
I watched his streams for his first play through and don’t think he ever upgraded his prosthetics. He’s calling level 1 prosthetic situational against final bossed no shit they gonna be pretty useless.
The fact that he beat the game without leveling up the prosthetics shows how situational they are ..I love sekiro to death but I really didn't use my prosthetics other than exploiting boss weaknesses
@@jimjam4627 Honestly I don't find most to be "situational" at all. They mostly seem to combo super well with the combat if used aggressively. My most used prosthetics in my first playthrough were the Shuruken and the Spear. Chasing slash is absolutely necessary, as it allows you to close the distance on any foe after staggering them to get a free hit and stay aggressive.
Yeah I also remember Charlie saying quickhacking in useless in Cyberpunk when it reality, they can be crazy powerful if you upgrade fully. I've taken down big metal dudes with a single Short Circuit.
@@jimjam4627 Prosthetics are definitely not necessary, but incorporating them into combos makes the game much more fun, and makes fights much faster. Theres a few sekiro youtubers who showcase how powerful prosthetics really are. But when the game first came out, nobody really took advantage of them.
I disagree with Isshin feeling unfair. From my experience the entire time I was fighting him I had a blast. Every time I died I never thought it was because it was unfair, It was always due to my own mistakes. He always left an opening whenever he would attack, and there were major openings you could exploit. Also Genichiro was a complete joke and was basically free resurrection power.
Also, Charlie saying the 4th phase was unfair when it was actually the easiest part of the fight (easier than even Genichiro imo). Like, if you got to that part, you basically won unless you had somehow gotten that far in the game without knowing how to do the lightning counter. The hardest part of the fight was for sure the third part (Isshin's second health bar), where he pulls out the spear, but even that part wasn't too bad. The Shura ending, on the other hand, THAT was boss a pain.
yeah it was an absolute joy to fight isshin. ive never had that much fun in a boss fight. the whole game has been training yo to fight him and now its go time
I had a blast with Lady Butterfly, everyone complained of how hard she was meanwhile i never got mad, I had fun destroying her and then dying to flying kunais
I’m surprised at his review of Isshin, he never felt unfair to me, he always attacked with clear patterns and had long telegraphs for most attacks, his third phase becomes a breeze too by just deflecting the lightning attacks back at him.
Agreed. Sword Saint of one of the best final bosses in gaming history, mechanically at least. He's the ultimate skill check and puts your knowledge of everything you've been taught to the test. He's hard for sure, but never unfair and an absolute thrill to fight whenever you know what you're doing
Never did I think any boss in this beautiful game was unfair (ok maybe twin apes but at least u get space to run around). Isshin gave me a lot of trouble but it was mainly cause he has a vast moveset, slightly awkward timing, and insane reach when he so chooses. Took me like 30+ tries but once I learned him and shook the nerves I fucking whooped him.
Hard disagree on prosthetics, flame vent/ oil saves my ass constantly, the loaded axe let me beat Genichiro, get the follow up slash and it’s even more useful, and I use Shurikens all the time
The mist feather is also so good if you pair it with ichimonji. Just press R2 when they are about to hit, then jump, then midair ichimonji. Boom youve done a shit tonne of posture damage
The flame vent on that damned ape workes like a charm. Not only it gives the burn status, but in phase 1, it stuns him too and you can get some hits in or heal or use the mortal draw to destroy him.
They throw loads of enemies at you to incentivise stealth. if there was just one that would make the mechanic useless. It rewards caution through a more open level design.
@@phillystevesteak6982 Players did have a choice. In certain cases stealth is the better option, but that doesn't mean the Player is forced to use stealth. Fighting all enemies at once is a choice, it is just less efficient/ more difficult.
Cheesing the final boss is probably harder than learning him, it takes forever to chesse his health down and any fuck-up will kill you but intenintentional one on one is hard the first time, but you learn to overcome it Genichiro is a perfect example, if you had to cheese him everytime it would take forever, but eveyone learned him in and out and he became nothing but a minor inconvenience
kinda depends on what type of playstyle you use. i mainly use deflects as opposed to dodges so i could beat isshin sword saint on the first day of encountering him, took me around ten tries. and for the same reason it took me four days to beat owl father. he felt like the hardest boss to me.
@@cellophaneoxygen huh, that's weird. I mainly used deflects throughout the game too, yet they seemed pretty much useless in the Isshin, the Sword Saint fight considering how fast your posture depletes there.
@@keb6004 3 months late but, your posture never breaks when you’re deflecting, even if you’re on the edge of letting a fat cum, it won’t as long as you keep deflecting, but if you block an attack (or miss the deflect slightly) then your posture will absolutely get blasted, this is the reason why really good players can do base vitality runs and shit, check out ONGBAL.
Very true I struggled learning to cheese Genichiro and eventually gave up because it was so technical, but when I actually studied his moveset he become far easier than trying to cheese him.
I'm pretty sure if you try jumping in a Souls game, they come to your house and kill you themselves. If you even _think_ about doing parkour, they just tactical nuke your whole block.
There's a little bit of parkouring in the Souls games, especially in Dark Souls 1, 3, and Bloodborne, as well as the iconic sprint-jump. Sekiro's just the first Soulsborne game to introduce an actual jump feature that doesn't require you to sprint first.
Gyoubu weak to firecracker Lady Butterfly to shuriken Ogre weak to fire Guardian Ape to fire Headless Ape to screwing spear Corrupted monk to firecracker Demon of Hatred to Malcontent Headless to Malcontent Senpou monks to Fan. So on. Prosthetics were used well and came in handy making a lot of enemies easier to deal with. It wasn't explored to the extent where it was essential in any setting outside the grappling hook, like the game could have had some environment based puzzles or exploration and secrets that required specific prosthetics to access or unlock.
Ruthwik Rao I remember a part with the folding screen monkey where you could open a door and then shoot the flame prosthetic out. This would make the room go dark and you could kill the seeing monkey. If only the game had more stuff like this cause I thought it was pretty cool.
@@Fingolfin7455 I'm more of a One Mind type of guy but Ashina cross definitely has its place. I used it a lot just for a quick way to get off a high bit of damage
@@proxymurphy7357 really? I kept using it cause it looked super cool and stylish but if we talking about how useful it was it was honestly a bit underwhelming, especially considering its 2 spirit emblem cost (Ashina Cross that is)
@@johjoh9270 This was 5 months ago. And in that 5 months I have become a die hard Dragon Flash user. Ranged attacks that actually do damage are insane in this game. One mind is cool, but not very useful. Ashina cross probably beats it due to it being faster, and costing less.
To counter some of your critics: All the bosses are one-on-one, the being swarmed thing only happens on some mini-bosses and these are usually just Generals. Too me, having a bunch of foot soldiers around a general makes more sense so I don't really mind. You can usually pick them off pretty quick anyways. Shuriken prosthetic is a game changer boy, wym Camera indoors is complete ass. 10/10 would agree.
I agree with everything said. Except the camera can screw you over even in moments where you'd expect it to behave normally. In the genichiro/owl fight, if you're pinned to the wall, the camera will screw you a lot if you don't get out of there quickly.
@@incenerated9385 Ah yea, the lone shadow. That's a relatively easy fight, preparing you for the many many lone shadows you'll fight later. Although, camera is your worst enemy there. I defeated it quickly so the camera had no chance to screw me over. Although my aggresive playstyle was very risky there and i could've died easily, it paid off.
It is from resurrection...if you choose to opt-out of resurrections, then you'll never get Dragonrot. Test it for yourself if you think the internet is right. The game tells you explicitly.
It tells you explicitly, but the other way around. The dragonrot's from the dragon's blood stagnating when you actually die, and *doesn't* do that when you revive. I only get dragonrot when I die, never due to a revive.
@@xHiTtHeLiGhTx Except its not from resurrections. I went through the first portion of the game not resurrecting and just letting myself die and after a few deaths the sculptor got dragon rot.
@@xHiTtHeLiGhTx I opt out of resurrections a lot because I assumed the same as you, but whenever an NPC gets Dragonrot in my game it's always after a true-death.
Isshin’s spear phases aren’t unfair, they’re just very hard, that range and damage is diabolical, but again, it’s a legendary warrior you’re fighting, makes sense he can do all that shit
@@xXShizukanaXx Yeah, I can say I became a really good player, and he was just so fast and gracious, even when you knew all his moves he still caught you off guard. What an amazing fight
"One thing I really have to critique is the camera, the camera betrayed me more times than I can fucking count ESPECIALLY indoors" Yep, its a From Software game
"Never found anything in the martial arts tree useful" Bruh, Makiri Counter is a MUST HAVE, if you want that posture damage when the enemy uses a thrust attack. Edit: Wow this is the first time I've had a comment reach anything over double digits. Triple at that. Thanks guys.
Oi! The resurrection mechanic is actually the OTHER way around! The game doesn't explain it too swell but, When you die, if you come back to life, all is fine(never mind the gaping hole above your arse.) however; If you do not resurrect and get sent back to the idol, Dragonrot will then spread.
The whole point of the prosthetics is that they are situational. When you use them in the right situation they can make a fight 10 times more forgiving. You just have to know when to use your prosthetics
I think with the mini-bosses being surrounded by enemies criticism, I think From did a good job. I feel like it can encourage players to play more like a shinobi and pick people off rather than running and fighting everyone. It's kind of fun trying to pick out small fries without the boss noticing and it really makes you feel like a bad-ass assassin. The shitty thing about it is when you die to the boss you've gotta do it all over again.. and that gets tedious.
Yeah i dont have a problem with that in itself. But in the clip he was showing it takes a good 2-3 mins to clear all of them without being seen. Having to re-kill all the minions is the worst part
Doesn't work against all minibosses (unless you're willing to use a few centuries running away and de-aggroing enemies every time), and if the miniboss is particularly hard and you die a lot, then going through the same stealth segment over and over again gets extremely monotonous extremely fast. The game constantly trying to make you fight several enemies at once (often with stealth not being an option) is by far its biggest flaw.
@@bruce000000070000000 Juzou, shinobi hunter, general 3, Juzou 2 (tokujuri) and senpou long-arm centipede are amongst the bosses where there's several enemies at once with little to no option of getting through them all with stealth. And for ones where there's a fuckton of enemies but you can avoid them with stealth (which as mentioned, gets monotonous): Seven spears 1, general 2, Juzou 3 (shigekichi), poison swamp snake-eyes, and to a mild degree ogre 1. Okami leader Shizu also looks a lot like she belongs in the first camp and you're likely to assume she does in your first run. And that's just the times the game tries to make you do multi-enemy combat before or with minibosses. Although the rest are much more easily run past, in your first run you're unlikely to want to do that most of the time.
@@jacobnorris8256 You can use possession for some of these and it’s a piece of cake to eliminate the minions, plus some of these bosses are slower than the minions so you can kill them before they arrive
@@bruce000000070000000 Literally all of them. And constantly running away from the boss as you're trying to fight smaller ones is also very much not fun, and it's not like running away from the boss leaves you immune to being ganged up by smaller enemies. The posture system, plus the absence of omni-directional damage immunity in the form of a roll, works extremely badly with the hit-and-run playstyle that makes multi-enemy combat more bearable in the souls games (particularly DS2). Difficulty isn't even the problem, the issue is that it just plain isn't fun with the combat system in place.
The last boss of Sekiro really brought out the masochist inside me. I even considered turning off the bell demon debuff, but I pulled through and managed to land that last death blow. Sekiro made me enjoy dying again and again, just to learn how to react to each attack of each boss. It definitely is my favourite game that FromSoft has made so far.
As a big souls nerd I have to say I might like this game even more than the souls series. I think the combat in this is so much more rewarding. I also think the mobility is much more fluid. As for souls though I reaaallyy love the building your character around a weapon bit. I do miss that in this game
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I disagree about the prosthetic. The shuriken is really useful for a lot of fights. Especially with the upgrades. You can interrupt a lot of moves even for bosses also paired with the follow up makes it even nicer.
i was getting my ass handed to me by that final boss for about 2 hours and loving every moment of it. the last 2 phases are insane and it's amazing. definitely one of my favourite bosses in any game I've played.
The Monk skill tree is by far my favorite, and I'm convinced that High Monk (the combat skill at the end of the tree) is the best combat skill in the game. You jump in the air, avoiding about 90% of all enemy attacks in the game, then slam down and obliterate their posture with a flurry of kicks and shit. But the first combat skill in that tree does suck ass.
Just practice parrying at the right time for his super heavy halberd attacks and try and use his leaping attack to punish him. In the fourth phase try and get as many of those lightning reversals you can get, it makes your life a lot easier.
I have never heard someone say Nioh is their favorite/number one Souls-Like game. I think that's a great pointer to how I should take this review. EDIT: not in a bad way, just trying to say I have to see it from a very different perspective.
For the most part I agree with this review, except for the difficulty through throwing more enemies at you. I never felt this was the situation. It's not like you were forced into a combat situation with 5 guys. You could always sneak around and eliminate smaller enemies before tackling the mini bosses and stuff, which I thought was neat. The game never forced a combat scenario upon you unless it's a major boss, which I appreciated. Also I guess I disagree with the grapple hook criticism, but I only experienced what you did a few times, so I guess it's relative to player experience. Overall, it's a fucking amazing game
I noticed that when the grapple doesn't work it's because there's something blocking it, even if it's just a tiny tree branch, or you're to far under it to be able to grapple. It's not the game's fault, it's the player's positioning.
"Martial Art skills are useless" This is probably the first time I've actually disagreed with you Charlie. The Mikiri Counter is one of the most, if not _the_ most, important skills you can unlock in the whole game. Being able to stomp down Thrusts with a large counter gap is so useful. Mid-Air Deflecting is also a great skill, jumping while in a boss fight while spamming block has saved me quite a few times since the A.I. tracking is far better in this than other FromSoftware games because they want you to deflect more than dodge. I get that some of the Martial Arts seem "meh" but they're not all bad. Most of them aren't actually. So telling people that they are is hopefully not going to persuade them into not getting them for any reason.
@@vapperkills4580 bloodborne did not have a plot remotely similar. That was about completing and hunt or being reborn. Sekiro is about serving the master and what goes down with him.
Isshin is the best Boss ingame, he doesn't have a single "unfair" move or attack, if you want to beat him, you need to master all elements of the game, that's EXACTLY what a Final Boss should do!
After Beating the Game a couple of Times i'll bet Money that i can defeat him first Try, he doesn't have a single "bullshit" attack, Sekiro is the ONLY Souls Like Game without any Bullshit, you can legit Parry or Dodge ANY Move in the Game
@@nd-31570 bro what, his last phase is literally the easiest, because Lightning Reflecting is a stupid mechanic that trivializes both Genichiro's and Isshin's last phase. Unless ofc we're talking about Shura Ending Isshin, because yes, fuck that guy
So, I have no idea how you didn't like the last boss (not the secret one), it's absolutely amazing. It's hard but it's doable, fun and more satisfying than sex man! It's all about being aggressive and getting good at deflecting.
@@tommoorcroft2026 I almost thought the same and decided to cheeses him to fall of the cliff I mean I was literally standing there and waiting for him to fall off. Then I realised it would be disrespectful against the sculptor, Who has already done so much for you. So I decided to fight him it was hard but then I did it, it was honestly the best rush I've felt. (FYI I had to increase my attack power with 5 skill points)
I really never felt there were too many enemies in any situation except MAYBE the Sunken Valley/Gun Fort area. Grunts typically go down in three or four perfect deflects or less with enough attack power, which should be easy to land once you've fought several dozen/hundreds of them. The ones with guns drop like flies once you get on top of them. There's also the smoke ninjutsu on backstabs that gives you a chance to either take down another enemy (which you could then also ninjutsu again) or escape back to safety. Wall-hug and ledge-hang deathblows are also a thing. Ceramic shards & finger whistle are perfect for the wall-hugs.
Tristan Bernart no, nioh has the most layered and well thought out combat system of them all, amongst other attributes but combat should always b the main focus in an action game, but also has the story and lure to go with it, it's main problem is lack of enemy variety I will say that
Find it quite strange indeed! But it's his opinion I guess. Never gonna touch Nioh, just looks too cheesy to me. Sekiro didn't even interest me much but I absolutely love it.
SMT yeah, cosmetically dark souls 3 crushes nioh, bloodborne looks phenomenal too, nioh is lacking in comparison but it plays super smooth and the combat mechanics are fluid and varied, from switching stances mid combo to unlocking more and more combo enders, enemies can generate small zones that drain stamina when u enter them, but when u end combos the stamina u spent soft refills (known as a ki pulse) which u are ment to hit a button when the refill gets back to the point that it refills ur remaining stamina, if done correctly it refills ur stamina instead of taking it from u, and when done properly in the drain zones it destroys the zones, I'm sure I'm not the best to try and explain it but it's very well thought out and adds a layer to the combat, wat impresses me more than any one of these games is how they all have their own take on combat yet all manage to feel very similar "fundamentally" I guess I would say, no 2 combat systems operate the same between them, but to an extent manage to feel similar allowing familiarity as well as a breath of fresh air between them, amazing developers
@@evil2some556 to me the problems with Nioh is tooooo many loots, items. I mean it's great to have variety of stuffs but I just feel it too much, my inventory is usually full and it took me quite a time to sort them out. Items in Bloodborne and Sekiro are decent, I don't feel them out of the place every time i go to inventory, i don't have to waste time sort things out.
scarified u really don't need to spend much time at all sifting through loot in nioh, it offers that aspect for those that really like looting and doing all the extra customization to create different weapon builds, as an option it's there but not necessary, for instance, wat I do is basically just scrap everything yellow and below, in early game I only sift through blue loot, which is far less common early game, and then as the levels increase and more valuable loot starts becoming more common then blue can start getting the automatic scrap routine and only sift through purple, and so on, so as for looting it's only wat u make it, so in my opinion the weapons system is far better designed than dark souls, but bloodborne does have almost as much over all potential, the problem with dark souls is it's extremely lacking in comparison as far as customization, but nioh has it for those that want it but again, not necessity for those that don't want to get into it
I know this is super old but prosthetics were SUPER useful my playthrough. Hell I upgraded the flame line of the metal umbrella shield during Demon of Hatred and it made life so much easier! The knuckle whistle is also super good for most situations upgraded.
4:08 This is a huge misconception. Using resurrections does not cause dragonrot. Fully dying (and respawning at an idol) is what causes dragonrot. The reason people think this is because Emma the healer has a poorly worded line that has misinformed a lot of players. Regardless, dying/dragonrot is not a big deal, so it shouldn't be worried about by new players.
Do NPCs ever die to dragonrot? Is there any reason to use the droplet at like two stacks? I'm like a couple of hours into the game but there's a lot of unexplained stuff that feels spoiler-y.
I have to disagree with the prosthetic arts and tools. I mean, some bosses are so much easier and i strongly believe they were meant to be used in certain boss fights. Like the purple umbrella against the headless and the flame umbrella against the demon of hatred, they are so handy when it comes to the actual fight. Also the quick sweep you can do after throwing shurikens and the follow-up attack with the axe is absolutely devastating against most enemies, and many bosses. Only prosthetic tool i didn't find useful is the divine abduction (or the leaf thing whatever). The most useful is of course, the firecrackers. It helped me more times i can think of when battling against hordes of enemies, because you can basically stun every enemy near you and make a good escape or quick attack. TLDR; Prosthetic tools make the game a whole lot easier and better if you know how and when to use them.
He never said it was trash he called it a “piece of sh*t” but that was because he thought it was too difficult in his 1st playthrough , also Charlie made a tier list for all souls bosses and ranked isshin in S tier.
I find Sekiro a 100 times more difficult than any Souls game. I am glad there are idols close to most bosses because they absolutely destroy my shit. I have like 1000 hours in Dark Souls 1 but in total my PvE deaths should already be higher in Sekiro and I'm not even done with my first PT. Jesus fuck dude
Bro I had the same issue until I said fuck it and just trained with that boss snake eyes.You have to forget it's a souls game tbh.Oh and that undead you can train with is pretty useless
Really?? That's interesting cuz I find Sekiro much easier than Dark Souls especially DS2. After completing Sekiro, Bloodborne and DS1, the parrying timing in DS2 is so fucking weird and the goddamn stun locks the enemies can put you in is just so fucking frustrating. Fuck a damn hollow royal spear soldier.
Watching this review from start to finish I find that there's still a lot you need to know about Sekiro's game mechanics---Such as lightning reversal, using the combat arts to your advantage, and the potential of some prostethic upgrades as an ultimate weakness of specific types of bosses; apparitions, illusions, the ones with weak posture, the ones with high vitality, and so on... of course I would never have known much without looking up guides. This is one of those games where you just need the hand of the experienced. In fact, I look up more guides to this game than I look up porn my whole life. But it's really not impossible to master the game's mechanics all by yourself if you have the time to solve riddles in every item description. Trust me, Sekiro is much more enjoyable when you understand how everything works. Like me, I'm still getting molested by the upper tier bosses even on the third run. Sekiro will remain challenging no matter how beast you think you are at it. It's part of the charm 👍
sekiro is basically a walkthrough in itself. the text , eavesdrops, item descriptions, dialogue are EXTREMELY useful since they tell you how to master the game aside from just a basic parry mechanic. technically it's really smart and rewards the player for taking time to explore and READ.
I agree with everything but your point on the prosthetic tools, I found myself using them consistently throughout the game to tackle different kinds of enemies. I doubt I would've beaten the first boss without my shurikens to stop her flipping through the air. The only useless prosthetic is the short sword in my opinion, all of the others if applied correctly are genuinely useful tools. My two personal favorites and great examples are the umbrella and the mist raven feather, they help get you out of sticky situations you'd otherwise not want to be in.
Sabimaru is actually one of my favs. Some enemies are weak to poison and once poisoned it does a good chunk of posture damage. Also useful for keeping posture up on a boss. He's also completely wrong about the martial arts tree. Very useful skills there like all the kicks that do insane posture damage when punishing sweeps and the extra time on consumable buffs is also useful plus the sen and drop rate increases.
I feel like Bloodborne rewarded you for being aggressive by being able to get your health back after being hit. Whilst in Sekiro many enemies and bosses benefit from a more patient and defensive style of play, which is in contrast to the all the offensive tools you have.
@@Ben-fk9ey Not true most bosses reward really fast offensive play. Most bosses if you are good and just get in their face and parry all their hits while you hit them when you can. They die in like a minute.
Aside from OOT for nostalgia purposes, sekiro is by fucking far my favourite game I’ve ever played. The atmosphere is so cold and uncaring but some of the npcs and the lighting and colour palette make it feel so cozy at the same time and it all depends if you feel like you’re in your element and good at the game or not, if you’re stealthing out some formidable enemies you usually catch the vibe of the first snow where it’s just cold enough to hinder you and effect your perception and make you feel unwelcome and uncared for, but when you’re nailing it and confident it almost feels like the snow and cold are your disguise and you are as unstoppable as the elements, it’s a fuckin masterpiece man.
Isshin definitely wasn't an unfair boss. The fight takes all of the experience and all the things you've learned as the player and puts it into that boss fight. I think the reason you felt like you were forced to cheese it was because it was an unfamiliar boss with unfamiliar patterns and those slamming spear attacks are super intimidating and will usually make players shy away from learning the parry timing for them. There's a reliable way to counter every enemy attack in this game as long as you learn the timing (except for grab attacks. imo they either shouldn't have put those in the game, or they should've given us a way to counter them)
I don't agree with the idol placement... they're not all that close together. Way better than Dark Souls III' s bonfire placement. Sekiro is beautiful and imo feels more difficult that Dark Souls.
It didn't kill me very often, but it happened all the time. I can't say for sure if me losing a lock on an enemy was because of the camera being wonky, or if it was because certain enemies' attacks were designed to end your lock on. I did get trapped and fucked in a few corners, though.
I think besides the camera part, I disagree with everything else. Mikiri Counter, Ascending and Descending Carp, High Monk, Mid Air Combat Arts (for the Mortal Blade), Ichimonji, Mortal Draw is literally cheese for any boss, Flowing Water, Anti Air Deathblow (literally claps the Shichimen Warrior) are all such worthwhile arts, to name only a few from the many in the game. Also, Magnetic Umbrella, Flame Vent, Loaded Shuriken, Malcontent, and Mist Raven are literally the most useful. Sabimaru is useful against the people in Fountainhead. Malcontent pretty much stuns every apparition/demon enemy. Axe breaks shields. Mist Raven, Flame Vent, Magnetic Umbrella are useful in every situation. Frankly speaking, I don't think you spent enough time with the game, and just rushed through to get to the end just to say you've completed the game. I don't even know if you know the fact that your posture will never break, even if the gauge is filled, if you only deflect and not block. One thing that I think is valid to criticize is I think the grab attacks. They I feel are a little unfair for the player. Like, every other perilous attack has a counter: Thrust has Mikiri and Sweep has the Goomba Stomp/High Monk. The grab attack in the game is the only thing that cannot be effectively countered, and the hitbox is like, 30 metre radius around the grab itself (man fuck the Guardian Ape's grab range).
Yes finally actual valid criticisms. Real problems. Not some kid raging because they’re bad. so much that they try to find any excuse to call the game trash
Honestly, this Moist Meter didn’t age well… mainly because of the cons. The prosthetics, the final boss, the stealth, and NG+ all got ridiculed. However, they should not have and in fact I found all four to be amazing, with the prosthetics being fun asf to use and very useful, the final boss being easily the best AND the most fair of any final boss (just git gud), the stealth separating it from the other souls games in a very good way, and NG+ being an absolute joy to play! Then again, just saying, his favorites list is his favorites but objectively that is not a good list. Who has Lord of the Fallen, the Surge, and Nioh above DS3, DS1, Sekiro, BB, Code Vein (fight me, that game doesn’t get enough praise), and Demon Souls? I could see Nioh maybe being considered a top souls like but definitely not above what Fromsoft makes!
sekiro is 95% for me.. I was never bored in sekiro after dying many times unlike in most games. Ishin Ashina fight is a fair fight because he is fighting as a samurai and you are shinobi, meaning that you are the one using tricks like prosthetics
You know, this game was supposed to be a Tenchu game at first. Remember that PS1 classic? Anyhows, it's more like Tenchu crossed with the souls games, BUT yeah it does have some elements from Bushido Blade.
SuperArppis it’s mainly the visual aspects that remind me of Bushido Blade. BB looked beautiful considering graphic limitations of the time it was released. If BB were made today it would look like this game.
I've always been so confused whenever people called Isshin unfair. Even is he does lots of damage, his attacks are always well telegraphed, and he has very few fast attacks.
I think some of the negatives you have are just because of your approach to the game. For example, every enemy you encounter has a weakness in a specific prosthetic, and if you find out which one it is for each enemy, you can use it against them. As for the fact that there are a lot of enemies around a miniboss, that's because this game relies on stealth and expects you to take them out stealthily without alerting the miniboss, so that you can try and take out one of their lifebars then
The Firecracker Prosthetic is not even close to being “situational” It’s so good.
I wish i knew that on my first play through. I went the whole game thinking it was shit
My god, the firecracker is a must for beast fights, and is also a good "here's dirt in your eyes!" tactic when fighting humanoid enemies.
I swear by the holy firecrackers and Ichimonji combat art. Praise be unto their names.
It’s only good on July 4 or Chinese New Year, that’s pretty situational if you ask me.
Snazzy Jovial Wyrm another good “here’s dirt in your eyes” tactic is how you can literally throw dirt into their eyes lol.
"the prosthetic arm is very situational and didn't really use it that much" this guy didn't unlock combos and utilize them
You could honestly tell he didn't by his attitude towards the skill tree lmao
Well he didn't even upgrade the tools from what I've heard. Which means he's been talking shit about the base version of all the prosthetic tools.
The umbrella is honestly broken imo
@@ashwinc3789 ye if you watch his video where he’s fighting the final boss he had to cheese it to win. I love Charlie and normally his reviews are pretty fair but he clearly wasn’t too comfortable with the combat or upgrades in the game which probably hurt his experience a lot
I didnt like his attitude towards the whole entire playthrough of the game tbh... He read like 10% of all the text and story in this game and paid more attention to how many subs he was gaining then to the story. At one point he litterally asked his chat if Owl (he just fought him) was the final boss.... Come on man. He was also constantly complaining about the story and that it wasnt that interesting, but thats what you get when you dont listen and read and keep shouting bullshit about Kuro being stupid and that severing immortality was the "Bad Ending". I usually love Moist alot but this playthrough at some moments.. Made me so frustrated.
"NG+ too easy"
Looks like someone forgot to give Kuro his charm
and didnt ring the bell
@@doudou8671 tbh the bell doesn't do much but give away kuro's charm? you're in for a ride
@@prettystupid3509 what are you on about ? i am talking about the demon bell
@@doudou8671 yes ik, i think it just gives u double the rewards, it does make the game harder ofc, but only for a little bit
@@prettystupid3509 bosses are a lot harder with the bell on, in my experience at least
When mini bosses have troops around them you're supposed to stealth kill them to thin the numbers and then fight the boss one on one. You're a ninja not a knight clad in full armor who can take on more than 2 enemies at once.
Yeah, well, Samurai Warriors taught me differently!
josh white still gotta cut them some slack alot of people expected this to be more dark souls based since thats what froms known for most
Yeah and him saying that he doesn't use the prostatic clearly indicates to me that he doesn't use stealth. The shuriken is invaluable for stealth and thinning out groups of enemies
I think it's the proconcieved notion of dark souls where you kinda go at things, but even then a smart player would try to thin hordes
Pretty easy to grasp if you’ve ever played Tenchu.
I’m surprised the guy who needed summons on every Dark Souls boss could beat this game.
Oo damn
Kal Sizzle I don’t think I needed them I just couldn’t be bothered for the pve. I found the pvp wayyy more fun.
Boom! roasted
I guess that goes to show he actually didnt need those summons
Oof
Hesitation is defeat
Hesitation is defeat
Hesitation is defeat
Hesitation is defeat
The Glock saint
Hesitation leads to disaster
Ashina must be preserved
@@suhasop4919 I too, have a duty I must uphold
Charlie: "I've never had to cheese any boss."
Also Charlie: Summons 3 Phantoms in every souls game for every boss
That's not a cheese, it's a legit tactic allowed by the game. Cheese would be abusing the game's AI somehow that they can't get to you while you chip away their health.
SuperArppis but in the first dark souls, summoning kinda does break the bosses AI.
@@SuperArppis It really does destroy the games AI
@@SuperArppis Its still cheap as fuck tactic that makes the game easy. You literally let other people complete the game for you
SuperArppis it’s a tactic that gets people to beat the game for you, if you sit back and don’t do anything and you kill the boss I consider it a cheese
Resurrection does not cause Dragonrot, it’s death that does. Just making sure people know this
Oh fuck, i kept on dying instead of resurrect thinking it would cause a greater chance of dragonrot.
@@shudini985 so what was the point of the resurrection mechanic? Think.
@@Fumble469 just to help fights out. Literally second chances without repercussions
@@lucasousa3906 even after that the game fucks my ass damn
So what's the point of choosing the death option if there is no advantage to it?
"the martial arts tree is useless"
"The final boss was unfair"
Bruh, the martial arts attacks do so much posture damage. Were super useful against the final boss fight especially lol.
Yup, especially the Ashina Arts.
mortal draw is only skill thats good it has range pretty fast looks cool
SuperDrapek maan its good but nah bro there are better options
@@ds3overer something about the mortal blade was just a turn off to me. I prefered ashina cross or dragon flash
Yeah he didn’t play the game all too well tbh
*Shakira: Hips Lie Twice*
Vladimir Coffee
But her hips don’t lie
And she’s starting to feel that it’s right
Try Everything~
That's a good one
This is my favorite comment on the internet now.
youtube comments rarely make me laugh so good job m8, have a like.
Sekiro: I died a little more than twice
Me after beating all Souls games: Nothing will be able to stop me!
some ogre: YEEEEEEEEEEEET
A little??!
I watched his streams for his first play through and don’t think he ever upgraded his prosthetics.
He’s calling level 1 prosthetic situational against final bossed no shit they gonna be pretty useless.
🙆♂️ no wonder. I don't even think he was invested in sekiro as he should've been.
The fact that he beat the game without leveling up the prosthetics shows how situational they are ..I love sekiro to death but I really didn't use my prosthetics other than exploiting boss weaknesses
@@jimjam4627 Honestly I don't find most to be "situational" at all. They mostly seem to combo super well with the combat if used aggressively. My most used prosthetics in my first playthrough were the Shuruken and the Spear. Chasing slash is absolutely necessary, as it allows you to close the distance on any foe after staggering them to get a free hit and stay aggressive.
Yeah I also remember Charlie saying quickhacking in useless in Cyberpunk when it reality, they can be crazy powerful if you upgrade fully. I've taken down big metal dudes with a single Short Circuit.
@@jimjam4627 Prosthetics are definitely not necessary, but incorporating them into combos makes the game much more fun, and makes fights much faster. Theres a few sekiro youtubers who showcase how powerful prosthetics really are. But when the game first came out, nobody really took advantage of them.
Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice makes you FEEL like Robeeeeeeeert!
MY SONNNNNN
RABAARTOOOOOOO
Robert aint gettin that water anytime soon.
Daito Pereira ROOOOOOOBERRRRRRRRRRRT
for real, I had major For Honor vibes for ledging the warden on steroids
Truuueeee I had to learn this the hard way lmao!
I disagree with Isshin feeling unfair. From my experience the entire time I was fighting him I had a blast. Every time I died I never thought it was because it was unfair, It was always due to my own mistakes. He always left an opening whenever he would attack, and there were major openings you could exploit. Also Genichiro was a complete joke and was basically free resurrection power.
Also, Charlie saying the 4th phase was unfair when it was actually the easiest part of the fight (easier than even Genichiro imo). Like, if you got to that part, you basically won unless you had somehow gotten that far in the game without knowing how to do the lightning counter. The hardest part of the fight was for sure the third part (Isshin's second health bar), where he pulls out the spear, but even that part wasn't too bad. The Shura ending, on the other hand, THAT was boss a pain.
@@StaticTransit fire crackers when he used fire swoogadoodle bunga fest skill and he braindead
I agree.. He can be exploited in both forms
yeah it was an absolute joy to fight isshin. ive never had that much fun in a boss fight. the whole game has been training yo to fight him and now its go time
I had a blast with Lady Butterfly, everyone complained of how hard she was meanwhile i never got mad, I had fun destroying her and then dying to flying kunais
I’m surprised at his review of Isshin, he never felt unfair to me, he always attacked with clear patterns and had long telegraphs for most attacks, his third phase becomes a breeze too by just deflecting the lightning attacks back at him.
Agreed. Sword Saint of one of the best final bosses in gaming history, mechanically at least. He's the ultimate skill check and puts your knowledge of everything you've been taught to the test. He's hard for sure, but never unfair and an absolute thrill to fight whenever you know what you're doing
Never did I think any boss in this beautiful game was unfair (ok maybe twin apes but at least u get space to run around). Isshin gave me a lot of trouble but it was mainly cause he has a vast moveset, slightly awkward timing, and insane reach when he so chooses. Took me like 30+ tries but once I learned him and shook the nerves I fucking whooped him.
@@niberius4289 Demon of hatred
@Poop Pleas never say that to me again. I can’t look at the color red without having ptsd
@@purple3018 I wouldn't say he's unfair, just very different to the deflect and counter idea
Based on modern anime trends, Japan just has that many Idols everywhere. It's realistic.
Don't let Miura see this game
Nicceeee
@@drewwwerd1 lmaooo
@@drewwwerd1 R.I.P
It's not intense enough. Try playing Sekiro whilst doing the 'hiding in my gf's house for 24 hours' challenge.
gone sexual
Her boyfriend was home
@@popepepe6042 Even more intense then.
@@popepepe6042 😂😂
Try playing sekiro with prosthetic limbs
Hard disagree on prosthetics, flame vent/ oil saves my ass constantly, the loaded axe let me beat Genichiro, get the follow up slash and it’s even more useful, and I use Shurikens all the time
Flame vent with oil+living force beats alot of the bosses really easily.
He streamed the gameplay. And let me tell you he didn't even upgrade the prosthetics, he is talking shit about the base version of the tools 😂😂😂
The mist feather is also so good if you pair it with ichimonji. Just press R2 when they are about to hit, then jump, then midair ichimonji. Boom youve done a shit tonne of posture damage
The flame vent on that damned ape workes like a charm. Not only it gives the burn status, but in phase 1, it stuns him too and you can get some hits in or heal or use the mortal draw to destroy him.
They throw loads of enemies at you to incentivise stealth. if there was just one that would make the mechanic useless. It rewards caution through a more open level design.
Imo, better game design emphasizes player choice, over being forced into one strategic approach, in this case stealth
@@phillystevesteak6982 Players did have a choice. In certain cases stealth is the better option, but that doesn't mean the Player is forced to use stealth. Fighting all enemies at once is a choice, it is just less efficient/ more difficult.
Once I got the health regen from finisher kills I thought "Fuck it, send them all.".
@Bob Marine I don't think anyone can play a game wrong. I just think that you should be open to more experimentation instead of shitting on the game
@@thesteamhappy Exactly. Thank you for clarifying
Charlie: skill tree is worthless
Charlie few minutes later: Isshin is one of the most hardest boss
Did he even have Mikiri Counter for Isshin..?
@@jooot_6850 of course brudda
@@jooot_6850 plus, you can use "high monk" when any enemy (including isshin) doing sweep attack. Does lot of damage to the posture
@@jooot_6850 wrong question did he even use it
Cheesing the final boss is probably harder than learning him, it takes forever to chesse his health down and any fuck-up will kill you but intenintentional one on one is hard the first time, but you learn to overcome it
Genichiro is a perfect example, if you had to cheese him everytime it would take forever, but eveyone learned him in and out and he became nothing but a minor inconvenience
kinda depends on what type of playstyle you use. i mainly use deflects as opposed to dodges so i could beat isshin sword saint on the first day of encountering him, took me around ten tries. and for the same reason it took me four days to beat owl father. he felt like the hardest boss to me.
@@cellophaneoxygen huh, that's weird. I mainly used deflects throughout the game too, yet they seemed pretty much useless in the Isshin, the Sword Saint fight considering how fast your posture depletes there.
@@keb6004 from what i’ve seen his posture depletes even faster. you just need to stay on him.
@@keb6004 3 months late but, your posture never breaks when you’re deflecting, even if you’re on the edge of letting a fat cum, it won’t as long as you keep deflecting, but if you block an attack (or miss the deflect slightly) then your posture will absolutely get blasted, this is the reason why really good players can do base vitality runs and shit, check out ONGBAL.
Very true I struggled learning to cheese Genichiro and eventually gave up because it was so technical, but when I actually studied his moveset he become far easier than trying to cheese him.
You can jump.
And parkour.
**That's something no soulseries has**
I'm pretty sure if you try jumping in a Souls game, they come to your house and kill you themselves.
If you even _think_ about doing parkour, they just tactical nuke your whole block.
No parkour in a Souls Game, you say? I disagree.
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There's a little bit of parkouring in the Souls games, especially in Dark Souls 1, 3, and Bloodborne, as well as the iconic sprint-jump. Sekiro's just the first Soulsborne game to introduce an actual jump feature that doesn't require you to sprint first.
@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 Bloodborne's any% speedrun is basically freerunning
Snazzy Jovial Wyrm did u forgot tenchu ?
Idk I use the prosthetics very often, especially the shuriken
For that sweet, sweet posture upkeep and the dash. 👌
@@yowo123 also dog insta kill is pretty sweet
Gyoubu weak to firecracker
Lady Butterfly to shuriken
Ogre weak to fire
Guardian Ape to fire
Headless Ape to screwing spear
Corrupted monk to firecracker
Demon of Hatred to Malcontent
Headless to Malcontent
Senpou monks to Fan.
So on.
Prosthetics were used well and came in handy making a lot of enemies easier to deal with.
It wasn't explored to the extent where it was essential in any setting outside the grappling hook, like the game could have had some environment based puzzles or exploration and secrets that required specific prosthetics to access or unlock.
Ruthwik Rao I remember a part with the folding screen monkey where you could open a door and then shoot the flame prosthetic out. This would make the room go dark and you could kill the seeing monkey. If only the game had more stuff like this cause I thought it was pretty cool.
@@RuthwikRao Almost all bosses are weak to firecracker. It's ridiculously OP. Even Owl gets fucked up hard by it.
Dude definitely didn't kill the rats (and therefor missed out on the best combat skill tree)
Ashina cross ftw. I don't care that its broken.
@@Fingolfin7455 I'm more of a One Mind type of guy but Ashina cross definitely has its place. I used it a lot just for a quick way to get off a high bit of damage
you have to kill the rats to progress
@@proxymurphy7357 really? I kept using it cause it looked super cool and stylish but if we talking about how useful it was it was honestly a bit underwhelming, especially considering its 2 spirit emblem cost (Ashina Cross that is)
@@johjoh9270 This was 5 months ago. And in that 5 months I have become a die hard Dragon Flash user. Ranged attacks that actually do damage are insane in this game. One mind is cool, but not very useful. Ashina cross probably beats it due to it being faster, and costing less.
To counter some of your critics:
All the bosses are one-on-one, the being swarmed thing only happens on some mini-bosses and these are usually just Generals. Too me, having a bunch of foot soldiers around a general makes more sense so I don't really mind. You can usually pick them off pretty quick anyways.
Shuriken prosthetic is a game changer boy, wym
Camera indoors is complete ass. 10/10 would agree.
ehhh not _all_ the bosses are one-on-one
I agree with everything said. Except the camera can screw you over even in moments where you'd expect it to behave normally. In the genichiro/owl fight, if you're pinned to the wall, the camera will screw you a lot if you don't get out of there quickly.
@@alexmaximus9134 i kept dying to the mini boss at the well because of the damn camera.
@@incenerated9385 Ah yea, the lone shadow. That's a relatively easy fight, preparing you for the many many lone shadows you'll fight later. Although, camera is your worst enemy there. I defeated it quickly so the camera had no chance to screw me over. Although my aggresive playstyle was very risky there and i could've died easily, it paid off.
lady buttergly aint one on one, not that the ghosts help her at all
_Day 16 of convincing Cr1tikal to shower_
Long live the king in the North
Dad?
did he seriously not shower in 16 days?
Yeah
When you make your fucking username a spoiler.
"I never had to cheese a boss in darksouls"
Because you've never fought one without a summon?
Stolen comment.
@@waterhigh you stole that reply
Just so you know, you do not get dragon rot from resurrection, you get it from dying.
It is from resurrection...if you choose to opt-out of resurrections, then you'll never get Dragonrot. Test it for yourself if you think the internet is right. The game tells you explicitly.
It tells you explicitly, but the other way around. The dragonrot's from the dragon's blood stagnating when you actually die, and *doesn't* do that when you revive. I only get dragonrot when I die, never due to a revive.
I like how many people just reversed the the things said in sekiro XD
@@xHiTtHeLiGhTx Except its not from resurrections. I went through the first portion of the game not resurrecting and just letting myself die and after a few deaths the sculptor got dragon rot.
@@xHiTtHeLiGhTx I opt out of resurrections a lot because I assumed the same as you, but whenever an NPC gets Dragonrot in my game it's always after a true-death.
Hearing Charlie say that he likes Nioh more than all of the games made by fromsoft hurt me to my core
Pain
hes a weeb, likes nioh cuz of the majority or real life reference and japanese folk/yokai mix.
Why do you care what this degenerate thinks?
Well, tbf, nioh is pretty good..
@@HonorarySaiyan aww is someone upset their game didn't get 100% haha pathetic
Isshin’s spear phases aren’t unfair, they’re just very hard, that range and damage is diabolical, but again, it’s a legendary warrior you’re fighting, makes sense he can do all that shit
I´d be dissapointed if he didn´t tbh
@@xXShizukanaXx Yeah, I can say I became a really good player, and he was just so fast and gracious, even when you knew all his moves he still caught you off guard. What an amazing fight
Only Bs is him having a semi automatic pistol in feudal Japan lol
Gun Saint Isshin
i wish his third phase was a little harder. the lightning makes its easier than his second phase.
unless you dont know how to deflect lightning
"One thing I really have to critique is the camera, the camera betrayed me more times than I can fucking count ESPECIALLY indoors"
Yep, its a From Software game
"Never found anything in the martial arts tree useful"
Bruh, Makiri Counter is a MUST HAVE, if you want that posture damage when the enemy uses a thrust attack.
Edit: Wow this is the first time I've had a comment reach anything over double digits. Triple at that. Thanks guys.
He's talking about a skill tree waaaaaaay later into the game
@@InuAres even then the praying strikes move is really good
@@MasamuneVIII Is it?? I've never really found a use for it that wasn't outclassed by Ichimonji (Double) or Floating Passage.
Yeah the quick parry strikes are actually good
I find high monk extremely useful against enemies with sweep attacks, deals significantly more posture damage than just jumping on an enemies head
Imagine not even trying the Double Ichimonji.
This game is the Dark Souls that I always wanted
Itzgood96 this game gets a dark souls out of dark souls for me. Would dark souls again.
@@realnito6422ur comment was so neato
FAMILY FRIENDLY CRAB I rate your comment a prowling magus out of dark souls 2
@@realnito6422 rude
Weeaboo Souls is pretty good
Oi!
The resurrection mechanic is actually the OTHER way around! The game doesn't explain it too swell but, When you die, if you come back to life, all is fine(never mind the gaping hole above your arse.) however; If you do not resurrect and get sent back to the idol, Dragonrot will then spread.
The whole point of the prosthetics is that they are situational. When you use them in the right situation they can make a fight 10 times more forgiving. You just have to know when to use your prosthetics
Sekiro is the Cuphead of Darksouls
Argh, we need more moisture
I’m not wet enough
I think with the mini-bosses being surrounded by enemies criticism, I think From did a good job. I feel like it can encourage players to play more like a shinobi and pick people off rather than running and fighting everyone. It's kind of fun trying to pick out small fries without the boss noticing and it really makes you feel like a bad-ass assassin.
The shitty thing about it is when you die to the boss you've gotta do it all over again.. and that gets tedious.
Yeah i dont have a problem with that in itself. But in the clip he was showing it takes a good 2-3 mins to clear all of them without being seen. Having to re-kill all the minions is the worst part
6:15 *dodges and falls to a cliff behind*
yep, this is a souls game
The thing about mini bosses that you may have missed is that you're supposed to use stealth to get the minions first
Doesn't work against all minibosses (unless you're willing to use a few centuries running away and de-aggroing enemies every time), and if the miniboss is particularly hard and you die a lot, then going through the same stealth segment over and over again gets extremely monotonous extremely fast.
The game constantly trying to make you fight several enemies at once (often with stealth not being an option) is by far its biggest flaw.
@@jacobnorris8256 Like which ones?
@@bruce000000070000000 Juzou, shinobi hunter, general 3, Juzou 2 (tokujuri) and senpou long-arm centipede are amongst the bosses where there's several enemies at once with little to no option of getting through them all with stealth.
And for ones where there's a fuckton of enemies but you can avoid them with stealth (which as mentioned, gets monotonous): Seven spears 1, general 2, Juzou 3 (shigekichi), poison swamp snake-eyes, and to a mild degree ogre 1.
Okami leader Shizu also looks a lot like she belongs in the first camp and you're likely to assume she does in your first run.
And that's just the times the game tries to make you do multi-enemy combat before or with minibosses. Although the rest are much more easily run past, in your first run you're unlikely to want to do that most of the time.
@@jacobnorris8256 You can use possession for some of these and it’s a piece of cake to eliminate the minions, plus some of these bosses are slower than the minions so you can kill them before they arrive
@@bruce000000070000000 Literally all of them.
And constantly running away from the boss as you're trying to fight smaller ones is also very much not fun, and it's not like running away from the boss leaves you immune to being ganged up by smaller enemies.
The posture system, plus the absence of omni-directional damage immunity in the form of a roll, works extremely badly with the hit-and-run playstyle that makes multi-enemy combat more bearable in the souls games (particularly DS2).
Difficulty isn't even the problem, the issue is that it just plain isn't fun with the combat system in place.
The last boss of Sekiro really brought out the masochist inside me. I even considered turning off the bell demon debuff, but I pulled through and managed to land that last death blow. Sekiro made me enjoy dying again and again, just to learn how to react to each attack of each boss. It definitely is my favourite game that FromSoft has made so far.
Stockholm syndrome
They make you run a dex build
Even worse, a parry dex build
0/10
unforgivable
I won't tell you levelled dex as long as you don't.
We're all dexfags now.
As a big souls nerd I have to say I might like this game even more than the souls series. I think the combat in this is so much more rewarding. I also think the mobility is much more fluid. As for souls though I reaaallyy love the building your character around a weapon bit. I do miss that in this game
"The game is more forgiving than other souls games"
"...I had to cheese the final boss for the first time in a souls like game"
Alright Charlie
The posture mechanic is something I’ve always wanted to see in a STAR WARS game.
Getting hit 9 times with a lightsaber is kinda immersion breaking.
For Honor Star Wars? XD
you're fine until 10 and that's when you run out of fingers
Well 4 hearts is usually what I get. Idk what star wars game youre playing.
CommenterOf Truth Any STAR WARS game with light saber fights other than the old And newer battlefronts.
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@@mwezi4193the new star wars game combat is not as good as sekiro but still overall decent game, he must be happy
I disagree about the prosthetic. The shuriken is really useful for a lot of fights. Especially with the upgrades. You can interrupt a lot of moves even for bosses also paired with the follow up makes it even nicer.
I barely started the game and I love interrupting the generals when they try to fix their posture
i was getting my ass handed to me by that final boss for about 2 hours and loving every moment of it. the last 2 phases are insane and it's amazing. definitely one of my favourite bosses in any game I've played.
This is the dark souls of FromSoftware
Fromsoftware made dark souls
LOL
Matthew Dahlman whoooosh
this is truly the FromSoftware game of Dark Souls
Whoa whoa whoa, Demon Souls down in the mud with Lords of the Fallen? You're going to have to explain yourself, sir.
Demon souls isnt really that great. Nostalgia is the only reason people praise it still.
JumPInfectioN nah it’s good
Demon Souls is pretty bad with all the other Souls-like games being out. The game was a marvel when it was released, but it hasn't aged well at all.
@@xHiTtHeLiGhTx The atmosphere holds up as well as any of the series, and the game play is better than either LotF or The Surge.
@@SevenPr1me imo dark souls and demons souls are the only masterpiece souls games
The Monk skill tree is by far my favorite, and I'm convinced that High Monk (the combat skill at the end of the tree) is the best combat skill in the game. You jump in the air, avoiding about 90% of all enemy attacks in the game, then slam down and obliterate their posture with a flurry of kicks and shit. But the first combat skill in that tree does suck ass.
The final boss is making me consider suicide... 10/10
which one? My understanding is the game has multiple final bosses based on which ending you get
george walters the true one isshin sword saint is the hardest boss in any video game I’ve ever come across
@@tehCostHD Its complete bullshit the third and fourth phase is a joke And need the biggest fuck off nerf.
Just practice parrying at the right time for his super heavy halberd attacks and try and use his leaping attack to punish him. In the fourth phase try and get as many of those lightning reversals you can get, it makes your life a lot easier.
@@awesomest090_2 I beat it two days ago but thanks for the tip
I have never heard someone say Nioh is their favorite/number one Souls-Like game. I think that's a great pointer to how I should take this review.
EDIT: not in a bad way, just trying to say I have to see it from a very different perspective.
I agree, I think Sekiro is just a better nioh.
Nioh isn't that bad of a Soulsborne game, though. LotF and the Surge, on the other hand...
I'm a simple man, I see a prosthetic arm, I associate it with Guts.
*Nero
@J Munna *Punished "Venom" Snake
I dunno bro, I watched you summon phantoms for nearly every goddamn boss in dark souls, maybe you aren't that great with the training wheels off.
For the most part I agree with this review, except for the difficulty through throwing more enemies at you.
I never felt this was the situation. It's not like you were forced into a combat situation with 5 guys. You could always sneak around and eliminate smaller enemies before tackling the mini bosses and stuff, which I thought was neat. The game never forced a combat scenario upon you unless it's a major boss, which I appreciated.
Also I guess I disagree with the grapple hook criticism, but I only experienced what you did a few times, so I guess it's relative to player experience.
Overall, it's a fucking amazing game
I noticed that when the grapple doesn't work it's because there's something blocking it, even if it's just a tiny tree branch, or you're to far under it to be able to grapple. It's not the game's fault, it's the player's positioning.
Flaming bull was a pretty shitty miniboss that came out of nowhere.
Snazzy Jovial Wyrm a year late but fire crackers make both mini bosses jokes
@@the_furry_inside_your_walls639 No not really.
"Martial Art skills are useless" This is probably the first time I've actually disagreed with you Charlie.
The Mikiri Counter is one of the most, if not _the_ most, important skills you can unlock in the whole game. Being able to stomp down Thrusts with a large counter gap is so useful.
Mid-Air Deflecting is also a great skill, jumping while in a boss fight while spamming block has saved me quite a few times since the A.I. tracking is far better in this than other FromSoftware games because they want you to deflect more than dodge.
I get that some of the Martial Arts seem "meh" but they're not all bad. Most of them aren't actually. So telling people that they are is hopefully not going to persuade them into not getting them for any reason.
He means the monk tree
That’s not even the skill tree he’s talking about.
Even so high monk is op
@@comutakroqorian2.9 got nerfed 😭 still kinda good
Did you literally not mention the plot a single time?
some people dont give a shit about that
he is one of those people
vapperkills Nope.
@@vapperkills4580 bloodborne did not have a plot remotely similar. That was about completing and hunt or being reborn. Sekiro is about serving the master and what goes down with him.
@@awesomest090_2 this dude is on one to say it's a copy paste
@@vapperkills4580 Just because they both reference immortality does not make them similar.
Shadows die -twice- a lot more than twice
Isshin is the best Boss ingame, he doesn't have a single "unfair" move or attack, if you want to beat him, you need to master all elements of the game, that's EXACTLY what a Final Boss should do!
everybody knows the last phase of isshin is 90% bullshit stop meat riding your favorite boss
After Beating the Game a couple of Times i'll bet Money that i can defeat him first Try, he doesn't have a single "bullshit" attack, Sekiro is the ONLY Souls Like Game without any Bullshit, you can legit Parry or Dodge ANY Move in the Game
@@nd-31570 the last phase is literally the easiest, just cause your bad and can't deflect the lighting attacks doesn't mean it's bad. 🗿
@Nathan Derrick no it's not lmfao. You literally suck if you think the easiest phase is bullshit
@@nd-31570 bro what, his last phase is literally the easiest, because Lightning Reflecting is a stupid mechanic that trivializes both Genichiro's and Isshin's last phase. Unless ofc we're talking about Shura Ending Isshin, because yes, fuck that guy
So, I have no idea how you didn't like the last boss (not the secret one), it's absolutely amazing. It's hard but it's doable, fun and more satisfying than sex man!
It's all about being aggressive and getting good at deflecting.
what secret one? you mean the normal isshin ashina?
@@ericlol1337 Dragon
@@ericlol1337 demon of hatred
Fuck Demon of Hatred though
@@tommoorcroft2026 I almost thought the same and decided to cheeses him to fall of the cliff I mean I was literally standing there and waiting for him to fall off. Then I realised it would be disrespectful against the sculptor, Who has already done so much for you. So I decided to fight him it was hard but then I did it, it was honestly the best rush I've felt. (FYI I had to increase my attack power with 5 skill points)
Charlie: martial arts in this game are useless
High monk:
This feels like a bit of an uncooked review.
My favorite souls like is lego star wars: the complete saga
top tier game PogChamp
same
The Surge above Dark Souls II, I find that questionable.
MondaiRandy yeah and demon’s souls
I find it *offensive*
Dude he liked nioh more than the souls series....
That's retarded, lol.
@@mr.almezeini647 That's 100% fair...
I really never felt there were too many enemies in any situation except MAYBE the Sunken Valley/Gun Fort area. Grunts typically go down in three or four perfect deflects or less with enough attack power, which should be easy to land once you've fought several dozen/hundreds of them. The ones with guns drop like flies once you get on top of them.
There's also the smoke ninjutsu on backstabs that gives you a chance to either take down another enemy (which you could then also ninjutsu again) or escape back to safety. Wall-hug and ledge-hang deathblows are also a thing. Ceramic shards & finger whistle are perfect for the wall-hugs.
The fifth game from FromSoftware with the same secret boss - The camera
it's god laughing
Does nobody think its strange that his favourite Souls-Like game is Nioh??
Tristan Bernart no, nioh has the most layered and well thought out combat system of them all, amongst other attributes but combat should always b the main focus in an action game, but also has the story and lure to go with it, it's main problem is lack of enemy variety I will say that
Find it quite strange indeed!
But it's his opinion I guess.
Never gonna touch Nioh, just looks too cheesy to me. Sekiro didn't even interest me much but I absolutely love it.
SMT yeah, cosmetically dark souls 3 crushes nioh, bloodborne looks phenomenal too, nioh is lacking in comparison but it plays super smooth and the combat mechanics are fluid and varied, from switching stances mid combo to unlocking more and more combo enders, enemies can generate small zones that drain stamina when u enter them, but when u end combos the stamina u spent soft refills (known as a ki pulse) which u are ment to hit a button when the refill gets back to the point that it refills ur remaining stamina, if done correctly it refills ur stamina instead of taking it from u, and when done properly in the drain zones it destroys the zones, I'm sure I'm not the best to try and explain it but it's very well thought out and adds a layer to the combat, wat impresses me more than any one of these games is how they all have their own take on combat yet all manage to feel very similar "fundamentally" I guess I would say, no 2 combat systems operate the same between them, but to an extent manage to feel similar allowing familiarity as well as a breath of fresh air between them, amazing developers
@@evil2some556 to me the problems with Nioh is tooooo many loots, items. I mean it's great to have variety of stuffs but I just feel it too much, my inventory is usually full and it took me quite a time to sort them out. Items in Bloodborne and Sekiro are decent, I don't feel them out of the place every time i go to inventory, i don't have to waste time sort things out.
scarified u really don't need to spend much time at all sifting through loot in nioh, it offers that aspect for those that really like looting and doing all the extra customization to create different weapon builds, as an option it's there but not necessary, for instance, wat I do is basically just scrap everything yellow and below, in early game I only sift through blue loot, which is far less common early game, and then as the levels increase and more valuable loot starts becoming more common then blue can start getting the automatic scrap routine and only sift through purple, and so on, so as for looting it's only wat u make it, so in my opinion the weapons system is far better designed than dark souls, but bloodborne does have almost as much over all potential, the problem with dark souls is it's extremely lacking in comparison as far as customization, but nioh has it for those that want it but again, not necessity for those that don't want to get into it
I know this is super old but prosthetics were SUPER useful my playthrough. Hell I upgraded the flame line of the metal umbrella shield during Demon of Hatred and it made life so much easier! The knuckle whistle is also super good for most situations upgraded.
4:08 This is a huge misconception. Using resurrections does not cause dragonrot. Fully dying (and respawning at an idol) is what causes dragonrot. The reason people think this is because Emma the healer has a poorly worded line that has misinformed a lot of players.
Regardless, dying/dragonrot is not a big deal, so it shouldn't be worried about by new players.
Do NPCs ever die to dragonrot? Is there any reason to use the droplet at like two stacks?
I'm like a couple of hours into the game but there's a lot of unexplained stuff that feels spoiler-y.
The grappling hook makes more sense when you look directly at the thing you want to grapple at
7:50 As someone who's never played another Souls-like yet and who just beat Sekiro's final boss without cheese today, this was nice to hear.
The final boss was one of the best Final bosses ever in a video game. Dunno why you had to cheese him
I've been waiting for this. Much love Charlie.
I have to disagree with the prosthetic arts and tools. I mean, some bosses are so much easier and i strongly believe they were meant to be used in certain boss fights. Like the purple umbrella against the headless and the flame umbrella against the demon of hatred, they are so handy when it comes to the actual fight. Also the quick sweep you can do after throwing shurikens and the follow-up attack with the axe is absolutely devastating against most enemies, and many bosses. Only prosthetic tool i didn't find useful is the divine abduction (or the leaf thing whatever). The most useful is of course, the firecrackers. It helped me more times i can think of when battling against hordes of enemies, because you can basically stun every enemy near you and make a good escape or quick attack.
TLDR; Prosthetic tools make the game a whole lot easier and better if you know how and when to use them.
Was waiting for this since it dropped. Potential goty 2019 along with RE2 and DMC5
Re2 or dmc v will have a better chance than sekiro.
@@Cyraxxxxxxxsssstylus wrong
The final boss was trash? I felt like it the best boss in the entire Soulsborne series, the satisfaction of deflection is on an whole other level
He never said it was trash he called it a “piece of sh*t” but that was because he thought it was too difficult in his 1st playthrough , also Charlie made a tier list for all souls bosses and ranked isshin in S tier.
@@bingus1829oh damn fr? That’s great to hear.
Deaths in sekiro are so much more devastating later on. No matter what you can’t prevent a loss of xp/coins unlike very other souls games.
Beating ishhin fair and square is like the best feeling ever.
I find Sekiro a 100 times more difficult than any Souls game. I am glad there are idols close to most bosses because they absolutely destroy my shit. I have like 1000 hours in Dark Souls 1 but in total my PvE deaths should already be higher in Sekiro and I'm not even done with my first PT. Jesus fuck dude
Bro I had the same issue until I said fuck it and just trained with that boss snake eyes.You have to forget it's a souls game tbh.Oh and that undead you can train with is pretty useless
Really?? That's interesting cuz I find Sekiro much easier than Dark Souls especially DS2. After completing Sekiro, Bloodborne and DS1, the parrying timing in DS2 is so fucking weird and the goddamn stun locks the enemies can put you in is just so fucking frustrating. Fuck a damn hollow royal spear soldier.
@@ayayron8221 DS1 is legit the easiest game I've played. The only challenges I've had was with Gwyn and the final boss in the DLC.
Watching this review from start to finish I find that there's still a lot you need to know about Sekiro's game mechanics---Such as lightning reversal, using the combat arts to your advantage, and the potential of some prostethic upgrades as an ultimate weakness of specific types of bosses; apparitions, illusions, the ones with weak posture, the ones with high vitality, and so on... of course I would never have known much without looking up guides. This is one of those games where you just need the hand of the experienced. In fact, I look up more guides to this game than I look up porn my whole life. But it's really not impossible to master the game's mechanics all by yourself if you have the time to solve riddles in every item description. Trust me, Sekiro is much more enjoyable when you understand how everything works. Like me, I'm still getting molested by the upper tier bosses even on the third run. Sekiro will remain challenging no matter how beast you think you are at it. It's part of the charm 👍
sekiro is basically a walkthrough in itself. the text , eavesdrops, item descriptions, dialogue are EXTREMELY useful since they tell you how to master the game aside from just a basic parry mechanic. technically it's really smart and rewards the player for taking time to explore and READ.
I agree with everything but your point on the prosthetic tools, I found myself using them consistently throughout the game to tackle different kinds of enemies. I doubt I would've beaten the first boss without my shurikens to stop her flipping through the air. The only useless prosthetic is the short sword in my opinion, all of the others if applied correctly are genuinely useful tools. My two personal favorites and great examples are the umbrella and the mist raven feather, they help get you out of sticky situations you'd otherwise not want to be in.
Sabimaru is actually one of my favs. Some enemies are weak to poison and once poisoned it does a good chunk of posture damage. Also useful for keeping posture up on a boss. He's also completely wrong about the martial arts tree. Very useful skills there like all the kicks that do insane posture damage when punishing sweeps and the extra time on consumable buffs is also useful plus the sen and drop rate increases.
@@FramelessASMR yeah the monk skills are some of my favs for 1v1 situations, they just get you that nice extra bit of posture damage
Sekiro is so much harder than Bloodborne for me idk why
I guess it's the speed and new tactics you need to use.
same i think cuz dodge is less effective and you have to deflect alot more attacks
It is at a completely different level than Bloodborne to me too. It is because it forces you to stay in the box instead of acting outside it.
I feel like Bloodborne rewarded you for being aggressive by being able to get your health back after being hit. Whilst in Sekiro many enemies and bosses benefit from a more patient and defensive style of play, which is in contrast to the all the offensive tools you have.
@@Ben-fk9ey Not true most bosses reward really fast offensive play. Most bosses if you are good and just get in their face and parry all their hits while you hit them when you can. They die in like a minute.
Aside from OOT for nostalgia purposes, sekiro is by fucking far my favourite game I’ve ever played. The atmosphere is so cold and uncaring but some of the npcs and the lighting and colour palette make it feel so cozy at the same time and it all depends if you feel like you’re in your element and good at the game or not, if you’re stealthing out some formidable enemies you usually catch the vibe of the first snow where it’s just cold enough to hinder you and effect your perception and make you feel unwelcome and uncared for, but when you’re nailing it and confident it almost feels like the snow and cold are your disguise and you are as unstoppable as the elements, it’s a fuckin masterpiece man.
I'm so excited to be not broke and pick this up
When you get good at parrying, the final boss becomes incredibly easy.
Isshin definitely wasn't an unfair boss. The fight takes all of the experience and all the things you've learned as the player and puts it into that boss fight. I think the reason you felt like you were forced to cheese it was because it was an unfamiliar boss with unfamiliar patterns and those slamming spear attacks are super intimidating and will usually make players shy away from learning the parry timing for them. There's a reliable way to counter every enemy attack in this game as long as you learn the timing (except for grab attacks. imo they either shouldn't have put those in the game, or they should've given us a way to counter them)
I don't agree with the idol placement... they're not all that close together. Way better than Dark Souls III' s bonfire placement.
Sekiro is beautiful and imo feels more difficult that Dark Souls.
yeah like ...... ill fucking take it I've did enough walking for miyazaki
It even better than nioh
and LEAGUES better than DS 2 bonfire placements lmaooo
Agree with everything except the camera problem, never happened to me or at least didn't notice. Great video!
That camera killed me a ridiculous amount of times.
My biggest camera problem was the blazing bull. That's about it.
It didn't kill me very often, but it happened all the time. I can't say for sure if me losing a lock on an enemy was because of the camera being wonky, or if it was because certain enemies' attacks were designed to end your lock on. I did get trapped and fucked in a few corners, though.
I think besides the camera part, I disagree with everything else. Mikiri Counter, Ascending and Descending Carp, High Monk, Mid Air Combat Arts (for the Mortal Blade), Ichimonji, Mortal Draw is literally cheese for any boss, Flowing Water, Anti Air Deathblow (literally claps the Shichimen Warrior) are all such worthwhile arts, to name only a few from the many in the game. Also, Magnetic Umbrella, Flame Vent, Loaded Shuriken, Malcontent, and Mist Raven are literally the most useful. Sabimaru is useful against the people in Fountainhead. Malcontent pretty much stuns every apparition/demon enemy. Axe breaks shields. Mist Raven, Flame Vent, Magnetic Umbrella are useful in every situation. Frankly speaking, I don't think you spent enough time with the game, and just rushed through to get to the end just to say you've completed the game. I don't even know if you know the fact that your posture will never break, even if the gauge is filled, if you only deflect and not block.
One thing that I think is valid to criticize is I think the grab attacks. They I feel are a little unfair for the player. Like, every other perilous attack has a counter: Thrust has Mikiri and Sweep has the Goomba Stomp/High Monk. The grab attack in the game is the only thing that cannot be effectively countered, and the hitbox is like, 30 metre radius around the grab itself (man fuck the Guardian Ape's grab range).
Yes finally actual valid criticisms. Real problems. Not some kid raging because they’re bad. so much that they try to find any excuse to call the game trash
Did you also have a seizure every time Emma or Normal Isshin did their grab? It was kinda jank lol but yeah. One Mind is actually insane for a skill.
Not gonna lie, that really hurt when he placed Nioh above dark souls.
Or saying any Dark Souls is better than Bloodborne.
Wwwellllllllll........ I mean.......
tbh I don't really think Nioh is close Dark Souls tho...
He actually mean't
1. Nioh
2. The surge
3. Lords of the Fallen
1. Ds1
2.Bloodborne
3. Sekiro
4. Ds3
5. Demon's souls
Hank Anderson if this is a joke, good joke. If not...........gross
Honestly, this Moist Meter didn’t age well… mainly because of the cons. The prosthetics, the final boss, the stealth, and NG+ all got ridiculed. However, they should not have and in fact I found all four to be amazing, with the prosthetics being fun asf to use and very useful, the final boss being easily the best AND the most fair of any final boss (just git gud), the stealth separating it from the other souls games in a very good way, and NG+ being an absolute joy to play!
Then again, just saying, his favorites list is his favorites but objectively that is not a good list. Who has Lord of the Fallen, the Surge, and Nioh above DS3, DS1, Sekiro, BB, Code Vein (fight me, that game doesn’t get enough praise), and Demon Souls? I could see Nioh maybe being considered a top souls like but definitely not above what Fromsoft makes!
sekiro is 95% for me..
I was never bored in sekiro after dying many times unlike in most games. Ishin Ashina fight is a fair fight because he is fighting as a samurai and you are shinobi, meaning that you are the one using tricks like prosthetics
I’ve been stuck for eight hours on the true final boss.... EIGHT HOURS
Same
Did you ever beat it?
take a break lol
Shadows can't die, let alone twice
The way he’s talking about lots of the game mechanics just sounds like hes only played the first 5 hours
Nioh first? wtf ew. A tragedy you are good sir.
Reminds me of Bushido Blade. A classic PS1 game, beautifully made.
You know, this game was supposed to be a Tenchu game at first. Remember that PS1 classic? Anyhows, it's more like Tenchu crossed with the souls games, BUT yeah it does have some elements from Bushido Blade.
SuperArppis it’s mainly the visual aspects that remind me of Bushido Blade. BB looked beautiful considering graphic limitations of the time it was released. If BB were made today it would look like this game.
I've always been so confused whenever people called Isshin unfair. Even is he does lots of damage, his attacks are always well telegraphed, and he has very few fast attacks.
I think some of the negatives you have are just because of your approach to the game. For example, every enemy you encounter has a weakness in a specific prosthetic, and if you find out which one it is for each enemy, you can use it against them. As for the fact that there are a lot of enemies around a miniboss, that's because this game relies on stealth and expects you to take them out stealthily without alerting the miniboss, so that you can try and take out one of their lifebars then