Conquering the Gauntlets of Strength in Sekiro's New Update

Thanks to From Software, for putting the effort into a Free Update! Please consider returning to Sekiro, encourage your friends to pick it up, and maybe they'll consider free updates for their other games, in the future. I think it's a really good way to lengthen the life-cycles of these titles, for relatively little development time.

The reward for such hardship is: Nothing extremely seasoned soulborne player: hmmmm, impressive reward.

Sakura dance is also buffed by the flame vent fire buff and divine confetti. They really went all out with that move.

"you get nothing nothing except the memory of an incredible journey" uh I'd take a skin personally really

Fun fact: you know how your eyes glow yellow in dark places? Well with the Shura skin your eyes (eye, rather) actually glow an evil red which is really cool.

"[Gyobu] is the first boss in the game" Me, accidentally fighting Lady Butterfly first: "Yeah...."

When fighting inner genichiro, it is actually better to block his jump attack as he always does a thrust attack afterwards that you can mikiri counter. Regular genichiro will mix in sweep attacks after his second phase but inner genichiro always thrusts

Vaaati doing commentary on games is so relaxing to listen to. His voice is so calm and the advices he gives are very clear.

His son just wanna say: "Git Gud"

Vaati: Great Shinobi Owl uses firecrackers rarely. Me: Gets into a chain with Owl using his firecracker combo 5 times in a row.

37:50 that new attack consists of 3 moves, you want to jump over the first one, deflect the second one midair, then Mikiri counter the third attack

That mortal journey reward must be the dragon scroll so you can learn the secret to becoming the dragon warrior.

"Hesitation is the feet."

Another thing about Sakura dance: So after some testing I'm pretty confident that the kind of falling deathblow you do depends on how high you where when you started falling. A low fall does the backhug falling deathblow, a medium height fall does lady butterfly's neckchoke-flip deathblow, and anything higher does the slam to the ground and roll deathblow. Sakura dance, when used, carries you just high enough to do the neck-choke flip deathblow on most enemies, which imo is the coolest deathblow ever, and pretty hard to do because it requires a rather specific height to pull off. That said, really disappointed Inner Isshin couldn't reverse reverse lightning since that again, made his phase 3 easier than phase 2.

I don’t know if someone else said it already, but for inner Genichiro you can use the mist raven to counter the lightning without him returning it.

6:49 was so wholesome. i'm sad now, that was so cute🥺🥺i hope you are all doing well

You wanna hear all the "ting, ting"

3:03 I laughed so hard, best cut ever.

I personally like to keep shuriken equipped for the "Great shinobi owl" fight. I rarely use them if he tries to recuperate his posture which is something other than just not using the tools at your disposal. the shuriken knock him out of the animation and he then proceeds to chase me down.

Immediately after defeating Isshin sword saint for the first time I went and first tried the headless guardian ape fight. Never felt so good playing a video game.