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One thing I love about Genichiro is that he's a symbol of how you improve throughout the game. Your first time it seems impossible, your second time it's a reasonable challenge, the third time he's a pushover. The best part is the cutscenes for each fight. In your first fight Sekiro has to feel for his sword in order to pull it out showing that he is unskilled and rusty at this point of the story. In the second fight he takes his time but doesn't struggle to pull out the sword. But in the third fight Sekiro just pulls out his sword quickly showing he's a true master at the end. Genichiro is such a quality boss for being able to mark your progression throughout the game through both gameplay and cutscenes
@@danielhertel5665 this is highly dependent on rng. Sometimes they barely leave the ground. Also even when they do jump sometimes the deathblow prompt doesn't appear and you get hit by an attack.
@@AliKamelAliCHe just has more “bullshit” in his move set. Like that flurry attack after his ultimate. That thing is just bullshit. But you can use an umbrella to block most of his attacks.
I definitely think the demon of hatred is harder than the sword saint. The first time I got to his third phase, I beat Isshin. Not remotely the case with the demon. I actually hadn’t learned to use dodge I-frames for the entire game until the demon of hatred forced me to. Additionally, deflecting Isshin’s attacks felt so badass that it never felt grueling or grindy to me, whereas I spent a long time dying to the demon without having a clue how to survive long enough to defeat it
I remembered his warning when the fight started and it helped me beat him on the second attempt. You can’t be too passive with Sword Saint. Very fun fight.
@@en20drayt87 ya i found out later that there were ways to cheese the boss but when i played i literally just fought them head on. died a lot obv but was hella fun
Owl Father is the biggest bullshit nonsense boss ever. He has 2 or even 3 utterly BULLLLSHIT moves. Like his sweep that does 90% of a full health bar in dmg. Or his overhead which he changes mid-swing into another sweep if you dodge it
Gotta say this game still stands true, the combat system is seriously one of the best to ever exist. I haven’t played this game in a year or so but I still have all the muscle memory from the boss fights making them rather easy but still just as satisfying as beating them the first time. The best way I can put it how the combat feels in my mind as a souls veteran is the whole game is like the lady Maria boss fight. Incredible pacing that makes it feel like a true battle between two badass warriors. Truly a game that will stand the rest of time
@@TheLastMungebender uhhh idk what fucking souls Bourne fans you are talking to but that is absolutely untrue lol. Any souls veteran who says some stupid shit like that just wasn’t good enough to adapt to the system. My opinion as a souls veteran, Sekiro is on par with bloodbourne if not better.
Eddie Winchester I didn’t even know he was a mini boss lmfao I literally got a stealth kill and then just dodged his shit and killed him not till later when I started seeing these videos did I realize he was actually a mini boss lmfao
He was my first wall. Dude took me 3 hours to beat, but the reason it took so long is because having to kill the mobs around him first, stealthily, so you can stealth hit away one of his health bars.
@@hevillepeacefoot8647 In my first playthrough I made the horrid mistake of going down the whirlwind slash Shinobi Skill path and didn't have enough exp to afford Mikiri Counter. Needless to say, I was fighting that guy for a long ole' time.
Alexander Nance I find it really awesome how this fits into the gameplay of sekiro. When you stop hesitating and start being more agressive and trusting your deflect skills the game becomes way easier.
@@sergiodelgadojr9338 Played the game finished every ending with new game + even usrd kuros charm and demon bell for the entire play through i restarted a few days ago and every boss so far ive deleted from learning how to deflect perfectly due to the insane Chip damage on nee game +3 you only can not deflect 3 times and the chip damage alone kills you the game is incredibly easy and its kind of sad i dont get to experience the learning of each boss :(
I can relate so much to 14:40 It took me about 2 hours to kill Genichiro but in my victory attempt I killed him without getting hit once because I completely learned his moveset over the 2 hours that I challenged him nonstop
I love isshin sword saint so much. Literally everything you’ve learned up to that point in one fight. Most fights to me felt like I overcame a mild obstacle but with Isshin it felt like I climbed Mount Everest.
Yeah That was super disappointing to hear. This guy clearly beat a lot of bosses by just cheaply spamming moves instead of getting good. Maybe he should try to actually play the game and then judge the bosses.
@@Mincecroft thank you I think this game won’t be that hard because I beat all the dark souls games and bloodborne but I have a certain feeling that this game will be extremely hard
Just my opinion, it has its moments, but its just not a fun game. It suffers from having no middle ground in combat, you either fought with perfect timing and melt everything, or you didnt and die
I still think it's ridiculous to say that Way of Tomoe is a seperate boss. Just because it's a different character doesn't mean he's his own boss fight, he's meant to be Phase 1 of Isshin's. He isn't designed to be a full boss, that's why he's only got the 1 health bar. As a Souls example, we don't count King of the Storm as a separate boss from Nameless King, he's just Nameless King's phase 1.
This is true as fuck. Gotta stay away from walls for sure if you dont wanna die a stupid ass death blindly spamming L1 because you cant see what's hitting you
Id say one of my favorite bosses is the armored knight his design is really cool and hes a pretty unique boss compared to the rest he's essentially a skill check its the game telling you "if you cant beat this guy just dont continue" thats why I love him as a mini boss also I sure hope he found robertooooooooo at the bottom of that cliff
@@Dylanfrias24 Never ever used the firecracker which makes me confused as fck on how the community ranks the easiest bosses the hardest Owl and Isshin from normal game were one of the easiest to me for example
I actually never really used prosthetics on my first playthrough (other than the ape gank) not because i thought it was cheesy but more because i didn't think they were that useful, and with that, the false corrupted monk is such a fun but challenging fight. Probably my favorite in the game, not because it's the best, but because of how fluid and nice tje combat is on that one.
I don’t know why my experience with the guardian ape was so different than other peoples but I didn’t have a problem deflecting him at all in the first phase. I didn’t run away from him except to heal and to avoid his terror attack. So basically it was just like the rest of the game. His grabs weren’t even that frustrating for me either. Every time I got hit by one, I felt like it was completely my fault and not the game being unfair.
Yeah GA was easy tbh but I lost my shit in the double ape fight you can’t focus on 1 ape in that fight I hate that fight but hardest fight definitely goes to Isshin
Same here but with isshin, I had heard he was extremely hard not to mention had 4 phases. So when I got to him I was disappointed when I did it on my 7th try. Demon of hatred however, different story.
The grab is pretty bullshit, specifically if you choose to dodge instead of jump it. The attack is designed to have you jump over it, but it's also often possible to dodge backwards against it. Problem is that jumping backwards only works if you already have some slight distance to him (IE: Too close and you're guaranteed to get hit, maybe unless your reaction speed is godly), making the attack seem inconsistently unavoidable. Sure, they could learn to jump the attack instead, but once you've implanted backwards dodging into your muscle memory, you're extremely unlikely to try anything else out, and even if you do learn you're supposed to jump it, it's MUUUCH harder to unlearn back-dodging and how to jump it than it is just learn to jump it. It is a pretty badly designed attack for how it encourages people to play incorrectly against it.
@@danejr9785 this is what i find so bizarre, I didn't struggle a whole lot with demon of hatred and yet I see a ton of people ranking him really high. It's the same thing owl. It took me awhile but the hours like isshin, genichiro or guardian ape did
@@nguyeninhtri1155 I understood everything... It was awesome man... But that hatred demon was too tough for me... Sowrd saint fight was the best for me...
Isshin embodied the “by hook or by crook” philosophy of winning. He was a samurai, but he would use every possible way to win and survive he could regardless of if it would traditionally be considered “honorable.” I like how he says after giving you the Ashina text that the primary tenet of the Ashina style is just to win, by any means necessary, and he embodies that so well by throwing everything but the kitchen sink at you in that final fight. One of the best designed bosses ever made imo
Hey I agree, the first time I face her I tried to cheese her my getting two deathblows at the start, but it was patched so I tried the right way and passed in three times.
@@brownpaperbagm2304 There's an easier cheese still available though, where you get her stuck in place and can just slash at her at will till she dissapears. Used that the first time around. Very satisfying to kill her legitimately in the next run though.
@@Robkinggozer Didn't know about anything, went in full katana, hated the fight, finally beat it, and even before ever trying items / firecrackers, i still cheesed it to get all the endings ( the one where it falls of the cliff) and fuck it, i did it once, i ain't doing it again, it just gives me chills down my spine rethinking about it ...
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In my first playthrough i ran straight to Hirata Estate... and died to Lady Butterfly about 250 times. I fought her everyday, for several hours. When i finally beat her with huge amount of luck, having like 5% HP, my adrenaline was over the roof. In my second playthrough i killed her in 20 seconds, locking her with constant attack-attack-block sequence.
There is something special about beating the boss with very low health, or you ran out of resources. It felt like you gave your everything and you succeeded.
I thought Hirata was the natural progression of the game, and fighting Juzuo and all his cronies was such an unbelievable pain. At least Lady Butterfly doesn't gank you that hard, since those spirits are pushovers
@@volcanofirelion I think it's about that moment before you kill them, and have little to no resources. I usually think about one fight I had with the guardian ape after coming back to the game after two years. After completing the first phase, I had absolutely no gourd charges left, and all of the available resurrection nodes were depleted. Thus followed an extremely exhilarating but ultimately satisfying fight.
@@volcanofirelionthat happened to me with inner genichiro and literally was the most excitement and relief I felt in this game will never forget that moment
Having fought demon of hatred as many times as I have, he's actually now high on my list of bosses that I feel confident that I can consistently beat first try. He may not have many deflectable attacks, but if you're directly underneath him, he's surprisingly not too bad. And closing the distance when he tries to flee is a lot safer if you have the fire umbrella prosthetic. I actually shockingly feel more confident in my ability to beat Demon of Hatred without dying than I do about Guardian Ape, oddly enough.
I know I’m late to the party, but demon of hatred was probably easier than owl (father) to me because I used the Phoenix umbrella for most of his unblockables then slowly turtle shuffle to him while still holding the umbrella out😂 it’s just a strategy I don’t see used very often
Before sword saint, Genichiro on top of Ashina Castle was my favorite boss fight ever. He's basically Isshin lite though, and when i got to the sword saint my mind definitely changed. I really love fighting Isshin Sword Saint, my favorite fight in recent memory, probably since some of the castlevania bosses or artorias
By the time I actually beat Sword Saint I felt like I actually learned the boss, I am fairly confident that I could beat him again, maybe not on the first try, but definitely a lot more quickly than it took the first time around. I definitely feel like I earned the victory against him and the many many defeats he gave me. Edit: fuck anyone who says he is "too hard"
Whenever I first started facing the Glock Saint, I had seen a few walkthroughs of the game where every guy basically cheesed the boss to win, and I tried it because I just wanted to win. It didn’t work for me. So I decided to buckle down and play the boss like a man, I died so many times I had no money left, but I had memorized that old bastard so well that I deflected quite literally, every single one of his attacks, if he threw a thrust I always mikiri’d, and I’d instantly be able to tell what kind of perilous he was going to throw, I had entered a state of zen so great I only healed once during the entire 4 phase fight.
You know I once had the same exact experience on my 10th attempt I was no hit till his 3rd phase Where I missed two lighting deflects and died lol Beat him 2 tries after that though
you can no longer call urself a man if u even thought about cheesing it i looked up how to deflect thunder cuz i accidentally skipped the tutorial at genichiro but thats it
this was my experience with pontiff sulyvahn whom, after two playthroughs, i still cannot parry consistently. i can go no damage in the first phase though and some minimal chip damage in the second phase
The same for great shinobi owl i tried cheesing him but it was harder than beatinh him so i decided to git gud beat him after 50 attempts hes the hardest boss in sekiro truely Also my controller is bad it has a glitch were my character cant walk backwards and occasionally makes me dash forward so you can see how it can be slighty annoying to deal with but i found a strat where you can mist raven into him in some running attacks to get in 2 free hits since his character is stuck on you pretty much how i managed to beat him
Oh dude totally get what you mean. I just started playing about 2 months ago, the first time around I had to run around and bait him the whole time until the 3rd phase. The second time around I took the time to learn the patterns and it became smoothness. I find the first phase the most erratic oddly enough. Right after the you knock the first bar hit him with the mortal blade a few times to build up posture and then pressure him. Hit him twice and get ready to parry, when he does the crazy charged up slashes stand your ground and get ready to parry. If you pressure him enough he’ll always give you a mikiri counter. If lighting reversal isn’t your thing leave some emblems for mist raven feathers and the last phase is a cakewalk. I absolutely loved this game, IMO the hardest boss is the demon of hatred hands down, fuck him lol.
I don’t think guardian ape makes you forget what you learned, you can deflect all of his attacks and I never found it that hard to, the amount of attacks he sends your way makes it pretty trivial to keep his posture bar on edge
Personally i was very disappointed Sure, it looked pretty neat, but the boss was just such a pushover that i felt very disattisfied at the end of the fight
the demon of hatred had me thinking this way for a bit, but after learning what tools work best and that the stomping can be reflected to do some alright damage to his posture, i ended up getting a posture killing blow from time to time. i do still agree that he does feel more out of place as a boss, but it makes me love him as a boss more ^_^
I think at some bosses I've died in 10% of times because the camera unlocks and I can't dodge out of an attack, 20% because the locked camera rotates and I dodge into an attack and 40% because the camera sinks into a wall and gets stuck.
Agreed. More than half of my deaths can be attributed to random unlocking. It's normally due to FromSoft's shitty camera not being able to handle vertical angles, and sometimes because of small rooms. One time, when I was about to defeat Divine Dragon on my first ever try, the camera inexplicably unlocked and I was one-shotted. I have no idea why. There is literally no excuse. In a game that produces so much adrenaline, and hence so much salt, the sense of having been cheated is brutal. FromSoft really should have worked on this. Extra note: The Isshin boss fight became pretty unenjoyable because I could not see what unblockables he was doing, since he'd crouch into the grass for both the thrust and sweep. Punishing me for not being able to see something under the grass is pretty outrageous. This is somewhat avoidable if you coax him towards the busted bridge area. Gehrman had no such issue. This and Cuphead need to learn that obscuring the fight with a foreground/overlay is not a challenge. It is artificial difficulty and no fun.
Bonus points for glorified Dark Souls input buffer, I've enjoyed not being able to defend because I've clicked attack 5 seconds ago while being stunned.
I did the dragon’s return 3 years ago in my first playthrough, slogged and died so much from genichiro, father, guardian ape, both monks, and isshin with the strap. Bought the game back 2 months ago in my bday and i realized it now that the game’s not hard it’s just me. Did purification ending yesterday and surprisingly did super well despite suffering so much with the gauntlets: Inner genichiro & isshin. By the difficulty of the bosses i top isshin as top 1 for most challenging and demon of hatred as the hardest if you can’t doge and time ur strikes, genichiro’s a boss that u can’t run away because u will get punished but a fun boss the more you learn ( died by the bow more than the lightning at fp & gauntlet). Monke’s only hard if you panic, same with true monk they scary first glance. Great shinobi/owl father r just favorites of mine in the 2nd run, died so much in the first playthrough, only best solution for them both is to fight them in the middle and back off when necessary and never thrust for obv reasons. Hate duo apes, end of story. Gonna stop talking for now, i just love this game after being in a hiatus for 3 years, am going todo the shura ending and maybe platinum the game 2 after the exams r done, wish me luck.
So funny story about the Corrupted Monk illusion. I had just shelled out everything I had fighting O’Rin, so I was clean out of Spirit emblems going into the fight. At this point, I wasn’t aware that Divine Confetti would do more damage, nor did I know that snap seeds worked on this boss. As such, it took me a long time to beat her. I’m talking weeks. It’s certainly harder than people give it credit for.
Grab attacks in Sekiro are some of the best imo. In contrast to DS and BB, where Command Grabs are essentially some variation of “Grab-Crush-Slam” and “Grab-Stab-Toss” Whereas Sekiro’s are “Grab-SLAM-YEEEEEEEET”
They are the absolute worst. 1.Warning Shows Up 2.You run to the other side of the arena 3. Enemy continues grab attack 4. Enemy teleports across the map 5.You attempt to dodge 6.Enemy 360 no scopes you 7. Die or Resurrect 8. DEATH.
I just beat Sword Saint isshin for the first time yesterday. Ironically, I think I found the demon of hatred 100x more difficult. Gave up after 10 tries. Isshin feels more like a steady stream of progress as it really tests your mastery over what you’ve learned in sekiro. Once you take a seat back and see that, you see his patterns are pretty consistent.
(from a 200+ hours elden ring player) people say that it is really hard to change muscle memory when playing sekiro, but i downloaded it tonight and i didnt even press circle for the first 2 and a half hours
if elden ring was your first (and only) souls game then it wouldn’t be that difficult but if you’ve been playing since Demon’s Souls and you’ve played all the games since, it can be jarring to have to change your whole play style since the other games by fromsoft were dodging/rolling based
Imperial Judesmen138 my only purpose in life is saying “over rated sentence”? lmao what a fucktard. Just don’t mix up your and you’re and maybe you don’t make yourself look like a fucking idiot. You wouldn’t miss a single lightning if you were so good the game lmao.
Why are there 3 other people with the exact same profile picture as you only slightly different in this very same comment section? Edit: Never mind, my computer was being stupid for a second.
God it feels like im the only person who finds it way easier to deflect guardian ape than to dodge everything. I fought the bloody thing so much i basically became a machine just to deflect everything it threw at me apart from the one thing it actually *throws* at you
Same here. The people in the comments just didn't deflect properly. It's the player's fault, not the bosses fault. All his swings at you in phase 1 are delectable, and it didn't take me long to beat him.
Crapstick Memento I don’t deflect a single attack of his first phase, I just punish him after any and all of his attacks after I dodge them. Kinda like bloodborne style.
I don’t know why but I’ve not struggled with any boss as much as I did with Emma, and I fought her on my third run through of the game. She leaves so little room for error and absolutely decimates me if I get her grab and sweep attack mixed up. I completely agree that she’s so much harder than Isshin Ashina.
Just finished my first playthrough, and the boss I struggled most on was Lady Butterfly, reason being I went into the memory almost as soon as I got the bell and didn't leave the memory until she was dead. One prayer necklace and two Gourds isn't exactly how you're meant to fight her, and I didn't figure out how weak she is to dodgesteps, so I think I was there for three or four hours straight. On the plus side, it made me git real gud real early, and I didn't struggle with any bosses after her until Guardian Ape (and the duo Ape fight) which were the only real speed bumps until Owl Father. I think I died to Genichiro and Great Shinobi Owl once or twice each, which I'm pretty proud of.
The Mini-Bosses though... i wish there would be just one more, just one more variant other than the Headless, the Ashina-Samurai-Generals and the Kick-Dance-Sword-Bastards in Purple, White or Black. Seriously, it began to piss me off after some time.
@@SuperAmaton I completely agree, I wish there were more mini-bosses like O'Rin in the sense that they have a unique appearance, lore and being one of a kind, along with being a fun and fair challenge. I do love fighting those Shinobi guys but there are 4 of those!
Am I the only one that found isshin in his saint form easi? Maybe because I played sekiro as sekiro and not like dark souls which is the main reason of why the souls players found it too difficult once you have mastered the deflection and mikiri the game becomes a bit easier or easi directly at least for me I'm on new game plus 11 with no kuro's charm and demonic bell active and isshin can barely make any damage to me as well as the rest of the bosses in the game I think everyone would consider sekiro an easy game if they play it as sekiro and stop pressing the roll bottom
When you said "We aren't playing as a samurai but a shinobi." That was my clicking moment in the game. Not in the "let's cheese the whole game" sort of manner, but I started to appreciate everything about the prosthetics and how you should run away sometimes and breathe and find "smarter" ways to get past the enemies and bosses. In general it helped me to appreciate the game more as a whole. Thank you so much and great video! Subscribed😊
In my last playthrough of the game for the platinum, I don't think I used much of my prosthetics, it was really just sword on sword (or spear) battles, with combat arts in the middle
Owl is also the first enemy you fight who can use the Mikiri counter. One of my biggest strategies was use a thrusting attack after a series of deflects to close the distance, do some damage, and leave him open for a few more swings to damage his posture.
I don’t think the developers anticipated how easy it was to grapple on m&k. I basically just ran down the monkeys on my first try and then realized the level was not a platforming challenge but a stealth/puzzle thingy.
Ya know what really annoys me with regards to the Divine Dragon? It's that most of the playerbase doesn't seem to realise that you don't actually kill the Divine Dragon at all. You just steal its sweet tears, the thing is literally still breathing after you slice its tear duct.
For those who struggling with lady butterfly i beat her at early cause found out when she snaps all her minions she gives you time(wont attack you) to block all the butterfly projectiles (and during minion fight you can choose to ignore them and fight butterfly)
The most genuinely, straightforwardly difficult feeling fight for me was probably Owl (Father). I was stuck longer on Sword Saint, but Sword Saint is kind of an endurance fight and a good chunk of its difficulty just comes from how fucking LONG it takes. Owl is more straightforward and just HARD with no caveats or increased added element of repetition.
Yeah same for me. What doesn't help is that I never managed to get into deflecting much. So I kept going at Owl Father untill I finally managed to beat him without deflecting at all. That experience helped with dealing with Isshin.
Me too! Yeah Isshin is not easy and it's a long fight, but at least his posture bar builds up faster and you can kinda be more aggressive with him. Owl Father is tankier, hits harder and his posture barely builds up, and even after learning all his moves, 1 mistake is very deadly! It took me almost triple the time it took me to defeat Isshin Sword Saint.
I feel like I was the only one who didn’t struggle at all with the demon of hatred. I felt that fight was so easy with none of his attacks being hard to dodge
As much as I love Isshin The Sword Saint boss, I still can’t believe that the fucker just pulled an Ashina Secret Art: Glock 18 on my ass which got me flabbergasted when I first fought him
Great Shinobi Owl is the only boss in the game I beat first try. He was so easy that I was waiting for a third phase that never came. TCM was miles harder
This happened to me too! I totally had it in my head that I was going to get obliterated and went into the fight more as a 'let's see how bad this is' mentality. Then I won. It wasn't a pretty fight though.. no firecrackers and a lot of crazy running.
To be fair, the duo fight would be much harder if the female ape has the complete guardian ape moveset. And the headless ape takes alot more posture damage with the loaded spear. And they attack mostly separate instead of ganking you like the shadows of yarnham for example.
It's always interesting to me to hear from the perspective of Dark Souls players because for me, who never played a Souls game before, but have a bunch of hours on monster hunter, a lot of the mechanics I see being mentioned as being difficult to adapt to were pretty run of the mill for me while what they found easy I struggled with. Guardian ape and the demon of hatred felt very average to me.
I brute forced the guardian ape because i didn't know about the cheese, so i learned to parry everything. Took me 4h to learn his patterns and its very satisfying when you have it perfectly down and kill him in only a couple of minutes after dying a 1000times. You can dodge the grabs by staying close and running under him, took me a while to realize x.x
Tbh the hardest boss battle for me was The owl (father) the first faze was annoying but when it got to his second faze I found him much easier, jumping over the owl strike then mikiri counter was pretty satisfying and easy to pull off. Also with Ishin after learning the attacks it becomes pretty easy, especially his last faze with the lightning, for me it made it waaaay easier cause I could just stun tf out of him whenever he used it
Father Owl was difficult but when I was fighting with him, something magical happened, I got to deep into the fight that I completely forgot that I was real person ( xd ) It was like that anime fights between the main villain and the protagonists that are intriguing, 100% concentrated. Damn, that's why I infinitely love FromSoft's work.
Had the same moment but with Isshin the sword saint. I play on ps4 and talk pretty much all the time with my friends in the party. When i fought him I lost all the time, but when I then concentrated, I won and it was beautiful.
Demon of Hatred is the hardest boss, because as you said: It’s a survival, not a „I completely obliterated him.“ By now I can confidently say that I can beat Demon of Hatred every single time, but until I reached that point I‘d say I could defeat SS Isshin blindfolded. Because he makes you use the deflect mechanic, which automatically makes him 10x easier. He only has 1 combo that can really f|uck you up, which is his 2 sword strikes followed by the 3 vertical slash spear strikes, followed by a thrust. That move killed me 6 times until I finally grasped it. DoH on the other hand just makes you regret your life choices if you don’t utilize Suzaku‘s Umbrella and the Malcontent‘s Ring.
I fucking loved the isshin fight, i'm so glad that the last boss fight was actually the hardest one in the game it's always sad when the last boss is easier than previous bosses but sekiro managed to pull ahead on this one by a mile the best thing about it is that he doesn't feel unfair, you just have to try and try until you beat him i felt fulfilled after defeating him
I think a reason why Owl doesn't use perilous attacks, yet Father Owl does is because the second fight is in the past. He knows that those attacks wouldn't work on Sekiro, and so learned how to counter you, yet his second death leads to his first.
Try to beat some of the bosses on latest patch without cheese strategies that don't work anymore (at least most of them). I assume some people scored based on using those strategies.
What I loved from Isshin the Sword Saint was how his moveset made his swordsmanship look so... godly, fast nimble economic moves that gave no room for a counter attack at first glans, he deflected as easily as you did, he seemed more like a pvp than a pve match, I will never forget the first time I fought him. Maere, Sekiro!
The Sword Saint is insane to learn, but once you nail down his patterns, it's easily the most fun boss fight in the game. So much so that I go back to it in the Reflections of Strength, the only boss that makes me use the damn thing. When you have him figured out, you're left with an amazing and fun boss fight.
My first playthrough, it took me two sessions to beat Lady Butterfly, I went to her after Gyoubu but before Genichiro. She was the first fight that made me understand the game, but Genichiro reinforced the lessons I'd learned. After I beat him, I refought the memory dozens of times just to keep practicing. Now I can reliably parry his entire cloud passage combo and destroy him in seconds. That practice made me a much better Sekiro player.
@@timothywillox8564 almost every boss you can beat if you just wait and bait for cheap pokes but demon of hatred had so much HP it wasn't worth the trouble and with projectiles and such it wasn't really viable to wait and stay back. Next time I fight him I'll find a cheese strategy because I couldn't find any "safe" patient ways to kill him
Sword saint's first phase can be easily mastered but his second phase attacks are much more harder to anticipate because the grass hides what he's doing especially when he uses his gun, you can only tell by the gun's sound
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This is the 4th channel I've seen about Raid.
Oh, well. I am enjoying it.
Nice video demod, just wanted to share this weird moment with guardian ape. ruclips.net/video/5wMDo1grBds/видео.html (Happen on ps4)
Thanks Curtis! I've seen that glitch happen a few times. Would be great if it could be replicated for a speedrun!
One thing I love about Genichiro is that he's a symbol of how you improve throughout the game. Your first time it seems impossible, your second time it's a reasonable challenge, the third time he's a pushover. The best part is the cutscenes for each fight. In your first fight Sekiro has to feel for his sword in order to pull it out showing that he is unskilled and rusty at this point of the story. In the second fight he takes his time but doesn't struggle to pull out the sword. But in the third fight Sekiro just pulls out his sword quickly showing he's a true master at the end. Genichiro is such a quality boss for being able to mark your progression throughout the game through both gameplay and cutscenes
That's some good analysis right there
Really nice analysis!
I appreciate this comment. Thank you. 👍🏻
Paddyyoc I didnt notice the sword thing, thats an awesome detail!
Great comment!!! 100% agreed
Hardest boss is those dual blade straw hat Beyblade guys in senpou temple mt.kongo.
All you really need to do is spam LB and you're good to go
@@nuggo8711 1v1, sure. Tho I'm yet to beat those 2 fuckers near the Monkey Bell, Ishin is ez compared to those guys combined.
I agree, I just pass by them, never kill them
They jump a lot so try skurikans, they fuck them up good
@@danielhertel5665 this is highly dependent on rng. Sometimes they barely leave the ground. Also even when they do jump sometimes the deathblow prompt doesn't appear and you get hit by an attack.
it’s crazy how isshin sword saint gave me the hardest time, but i’d do it all over again. His fight is just so extremely fun
Isshin Ashina (Shura) was harder for me to be honest.
@@AliKamelAliCHe just has more “bullshit” in his move set. Like that flurry attack after his ultimate. That thing is just bullshit. But you can use an umbrella to block most of his attacks.
Agreed. I used Long Spark to prevent him from initiating his fire attacks in the first place.
that's not really crazy
It took me fucking 6 hours to beat him
I definitely think the demon of hatred is harder than the sword saint. The first time I got to his third phase, I beat Isshin. Not remotely the case with the demon. I actually hadn’t learned to use dodge I-frames for the entire game until the demon of hatred forced me to. Additionally, deflecting Isshin’s attacks felt so badass that it never felt grueling or grindy to me, whereas I spent a long time dying to the demon without having a clue how to survive long enough to defeat it
My experience exactly! Demon of Hatred felt nearly impossible
I’m too scared to bring myself to even attempt to fight the demon of hatred.
Word
@@beatlecristian just get the fire umbrella upgrade and all of a sudden you don't need to frame perfect dodge a single ability
@@ryangillies8064 and save the malcontent for phase 3 and it’s easy.
**Shoots you 6 times**
Hesitation is Defeat
A lot of the times I died to Sword Saint, it really was hesitation. Then other times it was just this. I lul'd hard.
I remember yelling "There was no hesitation, you just used a glock" at my TV more then once
Hes So fed up with sekiro he pulls a Damn Spear outta his ass
I remembered his warning when the fight started and it helped me beat him on the second attempt. You can’t be too passive with Sword Saint. Very fun fight.
Parry this you filthy casual
*describes how he beat bosses by spamming fire crackers and ash*
"Owl fights like a complete coward"
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i mean owl just fights like you using tools and abilities.
To be honest, it is in the nature of the Ashina style to achieve victory at all costs.
First owl fight is a joke if you cheese him
@@spooglet3279 owl isnt ashina. hes a shinobi.
“I’m the only one allowed to be a coward over here”
Genichirou, Owl, and Sword Saint Isshin are the bosses that really test your knowledge of the game. They are also the most fun.
Thats why them inner versions are the best bosses in the game, they are just the pinacle of fromsoftware coreography
owl was pretty easy just run around in circles until he does leaping attack then jump in and mortal draw twice
@@en20drayt87 ya i found out later that there were ways to cheese the boss but when i played i literally just fought them head on. died a lot obv but was hella fun
@@frostea7043 yea i still had fun becuz figured out the cheese on my own, and u can always go back and fight them which is great!
Owl Father is the biggest bullshit nonsense boss ever. He has 2 or even 3 utterly BULLLLSHIT moves. Like his sweep that does 90% of a full health bar in dmg. Or his overhead which he changes mid-swing into another sweep if you dodge it
Gotta say this game still stands true, the combat system is seriously one of the best to ever exist. I haven’t played this game in a year or so but I still have all the muscle memory from the boss fights making them rather easy but still just as satisfying as beating them the first time. The best way I can put it how the combat feels in my mind as a souls veteran is the whole game is like the lady Maria boss fight. Incredible pacing that makes it feel like a true battle between two badass warriors. Truly a game that will stand the rest of time
Soulsborne fans and gamers alike wholeheartedly disagree with this statement. This combat system was honestly chunky and the AI was deplorable.
@@TheLastMungebender uhhh idk what fucking souls Bourne fans you are talking to but that is absolutely untrue lol. Any souls veteran who says some stupid shit like that just wasn’t good enough to adapt to the system. My opinion as a souls veteran, Sekiro is on par with bloodbourne if not better.
@@TheLastMungebender Wrong.
@@TheLastMungebender Literally almost every soulsborne fan agrees this game the best combat system you must be smoking dick
@@TheLastMungebender you havent played sekiro
that shinobi hunter at the start of the game when i havnt figured out mikiri is the absolute worst
Eddie Winchester I didn’t even know he was a mini boss lmfao I literally got a stealth kill and then just dodged his shit and killed him not till later when I started seeing these videos did I realize he was actually a mini boss lmfao
Lol. I won because my controller is broken.
He was my first wall. Dude took me 3 hours to beat, but the reason it took so long is because having to kill the mobs around him first, stealthily, so you can stealth hit away one of his health bars.
literally press b (if you're on xbox)
@@hevillepeacefoot8647 In my first playthrough I made the horrid mistake of going down the whirlwind slash Shinobi Skill path and didn't have enough exp to afford Mikiri Counter. Needless to say, I was fighting that guy for a long ole' time.
Atleast isshin taught me one thing...
Hesitation is defeat
Alexander Nance I find it really awesome how this fits into the gameplay of sekiro. When you stop hesitating and start being more agressive and trusting your deflect skills the game becomes way easier.
*KOI SEKIRO*
Isshin taught me that walking slowly around him is more effective than wuickoy sidestepping
@@sergiodelgadojr9338 Played the game finished every ending with new game + even usrd kuros charm and demon bell for the entire play through i restarted a few days ago and every boss so far ive deleted from learning how to deflect perfectly due to the insane Chip damage on nee game +3 you only can not deflect 3 times and the chip damage alone kills you the game is incredibly easy and its kind of sad i dont get to experience the learning of each boss :(
Yeah... got to hear that voice line plenty of times... but HEY, I finally beat him yesterday after like a week of trying.
I can relate so much to 14:40
It took me about 2 hours to kill Genichiro but in my victory attempt I killed him without getting hit once because I completely learned his moveset over the 2 hours that I challenged him nonstop
same here for him and Hirata Owl Father- except owl father took me 4 hours straight, over and over with a couple breaks lol
I love isshin sword saint so much. Literally everything you’ve learned up to that point in one fight. Most fights to me felt like I overcame a mild obstacle but with Isshin it felt like I climbed Mount Everest.
the point of the divine dragon was cinematic. I loved the fight. Was EZ but so beautiful
You dont even really kill the boss, you just slightly slice the eye to get some tears. When you go in for the kill it still has health
I'm soooooo happy I never got spoiled for that boss fight. So magical
I still remember how i ran around him for several minutes trying to find out how to make the deathblow then i realized you could climb up by his sword
Yhorm noises
Not if it bugs like it constantly does and the lighting does no damage
If the firecrackers tactic is working on boss: eASieT BoSs
When the firecrackers doesnt work on boss: HArDeSt BoSs!
Yeah
That was super disappointing to hear. This guy clearly beat a lot of bosses by just cheaply spamming moves instead of getting good. Maybe he should try to actually play the game and then judge the bosses.
Hmmm I’m coming into this game and I’m bought to get it right now how will firecrackers help you in a bossfight and who is isshin?
@@boblob8498 Isshin is the final boss. The firecrackers can be used to stun certain enemies and bosses for a couple of seconds
@@Mincecroft thank you I think this game won’t be that hard because I beat all the dark souls games and bloodborne but I have a certain feeling that this game will be extremely hard
Just my opinion, it has its moments, but its just not a fun game. It suffers from having no middle ground in combat, you either fought with perfect timing and melt everything, or you didnt and die
Both Owl fights are probably my favorite. Love his design and the first time he mikiri’d me my jaw dropped 😂
yes, i only reached this boss - i tried to stab him and he used mikiri & killed me in a moment. my jay never dropped that fast
It was so awesome
Fun fact about Great shinobi Owl whenever he kicks at you if you dodge into him you can perform a mikiri counter
Bro this actually made me win lmaoooooo
Seriously!? I'm stuck at that motherfucker, will try this. Thanks.
I still think it's ridiculous to say that Way of Tomoe is a seperate boss. Just because it's a different character doesn't mean he's his own boss fight, he's meant to be Phase 1 of Isshin's. He isn't designed to be a full boss, that's why he's only got the 1 health bar.
As a Souls example, we don't count King of the Storm as a separate boss from Nameless King, he's just Nameless King's phase 1.
You're 100% correct. Same would apply to Emma but damn she was so much harder for me that Fire Isshin that I want to count her as a separate boss
@@jmorel42 Emma was harder for you than fire isshin?!
@@lanolabombalok6730 Bro Emma was straight clapping my cheeks. I think the second time I got to Fire Isshin proper it was all over
@@jmorel42 The heck? I always killed her in 30-60 seconds, while Isshin killed me about 5 times because of one-mind breaking my posture.
@@gabzdark07 same here
People forget the hardest boss of Sekiro one that has been with us since Dark Souls and possibly Demon Souls... THE CAMERA
I was killed by getting stuck on a wall losing sight of an enemy more times than anything else
Fuck yes OMG I kept complaining about the twitchy ass camera and my brother thought I was just trying to find a reason to put he blame somewhere
Raphael Miclat
God, is this true.
Surprised ppl don’t mention this more often
This is true as fuck. Gotta stay away from walls for sure if you dont wanna die a stupid ass death blindly spamming L1 because you cant see what's hitting you
What I experienced w/ Headless Ape duo is that he does his standing tomahawk chop more frequently in the second meeting, which is obvs the key.
Id say one of my favorite bosses is the armored knight his design is really cool and hes a pretty unique boss compared to the rest he's essentially a skill check its the game telling you "if you cant beat this guy just dont continue" thats why I love him as a mini boss also I sure hope he found robertooooooooo at the bottom of that cliff
Hey don't tease his dead son. Without their firecracker prosthetic we'd be in bad spot.
i mean he's not too hard of a skill check
@@Dylanfrias24 Never ever used the firecracker which makes me confused as fck on how the community ranks the easiest bosses the hardest Owl and Isshin from normal game were one of the easiest to me for example
Me: finally the second phase maybe i could beat him now!
Isshin: pulls out glock..
Isshin: parry this you f*cking casul
@@dergereatl8796 Me: (CLINK CLINK CLANK CLANK) How adorable, what else have you got you undead degenerate? ( I meant Isshin not you)
Just run and he probably will use an attack you can mikri counter it
I don't get why it's common to see people complaining about Isshin's gun. I think I got hit by it twice in all my attempts.
100 million subscribers without videos it’s not really complaining but more like a “wtf, why does he have a semi-auto pistol”
As a side note, I don’t advise driving over a speed bump at 60mph
Okay, I audibly laughed
Especially outside of schools, they seem to squeal
@@jakem5292 I think your local PD would like to chat with you.
hold my healing gourd...
I actually never really used prosthetics on my first playthrough (other than the ape gank) not because i thought it was cheesy but more because i didn't think they were that useful, and with that, the false corrupted monk is such a fun but challenging fight. Probably my favorite in the game, not because it's the best, but because of how fluid and nice tje combat is on that one.
Same for me. I didn't use prosthetics on the false monk and it was a challenging but very enjoyable fight
I don’t know why my experience with the guardian ape was so different than other peoples but I didn’t have a problem deflecting him at all in the first phase. I didn’t run away from him except to heal and to avoid his terror attack. So basically it was just like the rest of the game. His grabs weren’t even that frustrating for me either. Every time I got hit by one, I felt like it was completely my fault and not the game being unfair.
Yeah GA was easy tbh but I lost my shit in the double ape fight you can’t focus on 1 ape in that fight I hate that fight but hardest fight definitely goes to Isshin
Same here but with isshin, I had heard he was extremely hard not to mention had 4 phases. So when I got to him I was disappointed when I did it on my 7th try. Demon of hatred however, different story.
The grab is pretty bullshit, specifically if you choose to dodge instead of jump it. The attack is designed to have you jump over it, but it's also often possible to dodge backwards against it. Problem is that jumping backwards only works if you already have some slight distance to him (IE: Too close and you're guaranteed to get hit, maybe unless your reaction speed is godly), making the attack seem inconsistently unavoidable.
Sure, they could learn to jump the attack instead, but once you've implanted backwards dodging into your muscle memory, you're extremely unlikely to try anything else out, and even if you do learn you're supposed to jump it, it's MUUUCH harder to unlearn back-dodging and how to jump it than it is just learn to jump it.
It is a pretty badly designed attack for how it encourages people to play incorrectly against it.
GA is boring
@@danejr9785 this is what i find so bizarre, I didn't struggle a whole lot with demon of hatred and yet I see a ton of people ranking him really high. It's the same thing owl. It took me awhile but the hours like isshin, genichiro or guardian ape did
Isshin, The Sword Saint
*Uses a spear, a glock, and lightning*
You forgot sowrd
@@mahimndwivedi1653 which part of "Sword Saint" do you not understand
@@nguyeninhtri1155 I understood everything... It was awesome man... But that hatred demon was too tough for me... Sowrd saint fight was the best for me...
Isshin embodied the “by hook or by crook” philosophy of winning. He was a samurai, but he would use every possible way to win and survive he could regardless of if it would traditionally be considered “honorable.” I like how he says after giving you the Ashina text that the primary tenet of the Ashina style is just to win, by any means necessary, and he embodies that so well by throwing everything but the kitchen sink at you in that final fight. One of the best designed bosses ever made imo
Sword Saint, Spear, Glock And Lightning GOD.
The Corrupted Monk is one of my favorite fights in the game. Parrying it's attacks is immensely satisfying so it's a shame so many people cheese it.
Hey I agree, the first time I face her I tried to cheese her my getting two deathblows at the start, but it was patched so I tried the right way and passed in three times.
I deflected until I got a deathblow for the first phase. Stealth killed the second and spammed fire crackers for the third.
didn't know about the cheese, but definitely know what you're on about. it's tough getting there, but the fight is beautiful.
@@brownpaperbagm2304 There's an easier cheese still available though, where you get her stuck in place and can just slash at her at will till she dissapears. Used that the first time around. Very satisfying to kill her legitimately in the next run though.
@@Robkinggozer Didn't know about anything, went in full katana, hated the fight, finally beat it, and even before ever trying items / firecrackers, i still cheesed it to get all the endings ( the one where it falls of the cliff) and fuck it, i did it once, i ain't doing it again, it just gives me chills down my spine rethinking about it ...
A lot of these votes can be boiled down to: "did you cheese the boss or not?"
Its crazy how different people play the game, i didn’t even find the firecrackers until really late💀
I found them after beating Isshin lmao
*TIME STAMPS*
(spoiler free)
Rank 17 - 1:47
Rank 16 - 3:20
Rank 15 - 4:52
Rank 14 - 6:52
Rank 13 - 7:47
Rank 12 - 8:41
Rank 11 - 10:04
Rank 10 - 11:51
Rank 9 - 13:23
Rank 8 - 14:25
Rank 7 - 15:41
Rank 6 - 16:53
Rank 5 - 18:31
Rank 4 - 19:38
Rank 3 - 20:42
Rank 2 - 22:37
Rank 1 - 23:55
For those who want spoilers
Rank 17 - Folding Screen Monkeys (the puzzle boss)
Rank 16 - The Great Serpent (Ophidiophobia anyone?)
Rank 15 - Divine Dragon (LOZ OfT flashbacks)
Rank 14 - Gyoubu Masataka Oniwa (most passionate English voice actor NA)
Rank 13 - Genichiro, Way of Tomoe (the calm before the storm)
Rank 12 - False Corrupted Monk (what kind of cheese you like, cheddar or gouda?)
Rank 11 - Emma, the Gentle Blade (HOW IS SHE STILL TALKING?!)
Rank 10 - Lady Butterfly (Oh Grandma, what fine bugs you have)
Rank 9 - Corrupted Monk (it's the "real" one)
Rank 8 -Genichro Ashina (brings a bow to a sword fight...)
Rank 7 - Headless Ape Duo (Ornstein and Smough you guys are not)
Rank 6 - Guardian Ape (Just pull out your sword!)
Rank 5 - Great Shinobi Owl (the student has surpassed the teacher)
Rank 4 - Isshin Ashina (everything is on fire!!!)
Rank 3 - Owl, Father (wait, you were a thing?)
Rank 2 - Demon of Hatred (I'm a shinobi, not a hoonter)
Rank 1 - Isshin, the Sword Saint (shocker, I know)
This is both helpful and giggle-worthy lmao
Thanks
I love the Rank Two "hoonter". Spirits, Eileen was one of my favourite things from Bloodborne.
In my first playthrough i ran straight to Hirata Estate... and died to Lady Butterfly about 250 times. I fought her everyday, for several hours. When i finally beat her with huge amount of luck, having like 5% HP, my adrenaline was over the roof.
In my second playthrough i killed her in 20 seconds, locking her with constant attack-attack-block sequence.
There is something special about beating the boss with very low health, or you ran out of resources. It felt like you gave your everything and you succeeded.
I thought Hirata was the natural progression of the game, and fighting Juzuo and all his cronies was such an unbelievable pain. At least Lady Butterfly doesn't gank you that hard, since those spirits are pushovers
Just use item that neglects illusions, i killed her on 2nd try
@@volcanofirelion I think it's about that moment before you kill them, and have little to no resources. I usually think about one fight I had with the guardian ape after coming back to the game after two years. After completing the first phase, I had absolutely no gourd charges left, and all of the available resurrection nodes were depleted. Thus followed an extremely exhilarating but ultimately satisfying fight.
@@volcanofirelionthat happened to me with inner genichiro and literally was the most excitement and relief I felt in this game will never forget that moment
Having fought demon of hatred as many times as I have, he's actually now high on my list of bosses that I feel confident that I can consistently beat first try. He may not have many deflectable attacks, but if you're directly underneath him, he's surprisingly not too bad. And closing the distance when he tries to flee is a lot safer if you have the fire umbrella prosthetic. I actually shockingly feel more confident in my ability to beat Demon of Hatred without dying than I do about Guardian Ape, oddly enough.
I know I’m late to the party, but demon of hatred was probably easier than owl (father) to me because I used the Phoenix umbrella for most of his unblockables then slowly turtle shuffle to him while still holding the umbrella out😂 it’s just a strategy I don’t see used very often
I used phoenix umbrella too but mainly
For that jump attack and when he through those rocks/2nd phase drop slash that widens the fire aoe
The Sword Saint is honestly one of my favorite bosses in all of gaming. He has absolutely everything a final boss should have, and more.
Meaning he'll fuck your shit up and make you blame yourself instead of the game
100% agree
Before sword saint, Genichiro on top of Ashina Castle was my favorite boss fight ever. He's basically Isshin lite though, and when i got to the sword saint my mind definitely changed. I really love fighting Isshin Sword Saint, my favorite fight in recent memory, probably since some of the castlevania bosses or artorias
Especially that bullshit Jumonjiyari phase
By the time I actually beat Sword Saint I felt like I actually learned the boss, I am fairly confident that I could beat him again, maybe not on the first try, but definitely a lot more quickly than it took the first time around. I definitely feel like I earned the victory against him and the many many defeats he gave me.
Edit: fuck anyone who says he is "too hard"
Whenever I first started facing the Glock Saint, I had seen a few walkthroughs of the game where every guy basically cheesed the boss to win, and I tried it because I just wanted to win. It didn’t work for me. So I decided to buckle down and play the boss like a man, I died so many times I had no money left, but I had memorized that old bastard so well that I deflected quite literally, every single one of his attacks, if he threw a thrust I always mikiri’d, and I’d instantly be able to tell what kind of perilous he was going to throw, I had entered a state of zen so great I only healed once during the entire 4 phase fight.
You know I once had the same exact experience on my 10th attempt I was no hit till his 3rd phase Where I missed two lighting deflects and died lol Beat him 2 tries after that though
you can no longer call urself a man if u even thought about cheesing it i looked up how to deflect thunder cuz i accidentally skipped the tutorial at genichiro but thats it
this was my experience with pontiff sulyvahn whom, after two playthroughs, i still cannot parry consistently. i can go no damage in the first phase though and some minimal chip damage in the second phase
The same for great shinobi owl i tried cheesing him but it was harder than beatinh him so i decided to git gud beat him after 50 attempts hes the hardest boss in sekiro truely
Also my controller is bad it has a glitch were my character cant walk backwards and occasionally makes me dash forward so you can see how it can be slighty annoying to deal with but i found a strat where you can mist raven into him in some running attacks to get in 2 free hits since his character is stuck on you pretty much how i managed to beat him
Oh dude totally get what you mean. I just started playing about 2 months ago, the first time around I had to run around and bait him the whole time until the 3rd phase. The second time around I took the time to learn the patterns and it became smoothness. I find the first phase the most erratic oddly enough. Right after the you knock the first bar hit him with the mortal blade a few times to build up posture and then pressure him. Hit him twice and get ready to parry, when he does the crazy charged up slashes stand your ground and get ready to parry. If you pressure him enough he’ll always give you a mikiri counter. If lighting reversal isn’t your thing leave some emblems for mist raven feathers and the last phase is a cakewalk. I absolutely loved this game, IMO the hardest boss is the demon of hatred hands down, fuck him lol.
I don’t think guardian ape makes you forget what you learned, you can deflect all of his attacks and I never found it that hard to, the amount of attacks he sends your way makes it pretty trivial to keep his posture bar on edge
I remember when I beat Isshin, I was so excited that I got up and acted out the final deathblow.
When I beat genichiro I was showing middle fingers to my screen until they introduced his third phase
@@tartartartartar2731i feel you hahahaha(me too ofc)
"Ape duo is actually pretty easy"
Afrosenju: I'm about to end this community's whole credibility.
Lol I nv had trouble on them either tho lol.
He literally just needed to use the fire crackers
@@boyzaya15 yes he never use that weirdlyz only once
I actually managed to beat the duo first try
and that's why his videos are so entertaining to watch...
The Divine Dragon boss fight might be easy, but was absolutely beautiful imo
EcchiSamurai yeah it was cool asf
I don't think anyone can argue with you there
I really hope they add a dlc because I don’t know if I can wait a few years for a sequel
Personally i was very disappointed
Sure, it looked pretty neat, but the boss was just such a pushover that i felt very disattisfied at the end of the fight
Absolutely the most beautiful boss i have ever seen
People who cheesed the bosses shouldn’t be allowed to vote
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@@kurt2552it's true though
@@Vergil_Sparda69 🤓☝️
the demon of hatred had me thinking this way for a bit, but after learning what tools work best and that the stomping can be reflected to do some alright damage to his posture, i ended up getting a posture killing blow from time to time. i do still agree that he does feel more out of place as a boss, but it makes me love him as a boss more ^_^
after defeating the demon of hatred and isshin, i've finally collected dragonrot from all NPCs...=)
Hardest boss: FromSoft camera angle
I think at some bosses I've died in 10% of times because the camera unlocks and I can't dodge out of an attack, 20% because the locked camera rotates and I dodge into an attack and 40% because the camera sinks into a wall and gets stuck.
Agreed. More than half of my deaths can be attributed to random unlocking. It's normally due to FromSoft's shitty camera not being able to handle vertical angles, and sometimes because of small rooms. One time, when I was about to defeat Divine Dragon on my first ever try, the camera inexplicably unlocked and I was one-shotted. I have no idea why. There is literally no excuse. In a game that produces so much adrenaline, and hence so much salt, the sense of having been cheated is brutal. FromSoft really should have worked on this.
Extra note: The Isshin boss fight became pretty unenjoyable because I could not see what unblockables he was doing, since he'd crouch into the grass for both the thrust and sweep. Punishing me for not being able to see something under the grass is pretty outrageous. This is somewhat avoidable if you coax him towards the busted bridge area. Gehrman had no such issue. This and Cuphead need to learn that obscuring the fight with a foreground/overlay is not a challenge. It is artificial difficulty and no fun.
Bonus points for glorified Dark Souls input buffer, I've enjoyed not being able to defend because I've clicked attack 5 seconds ago while being stunned.
lol when you get stuck in a corner in a fight you might as well just step away because its so impossible to see ANYTHING
**if** the boss won't prison shower you, at which point you can't even move period.
I did the dragon’s return 3 years ago in my first playthrough, slogged and died so much from genichiro, father, guardian ape, both monks, and isshin with the strap. Bought the game back 2 months ago in my bday and i realized it now that the game’s not hard it’s just me. Did purification ending yesterday and surprisingly did super well despite suffering so much with the gauntlets: Inner genichiro & isshin. By the difficulty of the bosses i top isshin as top 1 for most challenging and demon of hatred as the hardest if you can’t doge and time ur strikes, genichiro’s a boss that u can’t run away because u will get punished but a fun boss the more you learn ( died by the bow more than the lightning at fp & gauntlet). Monke’s only hard if you panic, same with true monk they scary first glance. Great shinobi/owl father r just favorites of mine in the 2nd run, died so much in the first playthrough, only best solution for them both is to fight them in the middle and back off when necessary and never thrust for obv reasons.
Hate duo apes, end of story.
Gonna stop talking for now, i just love this game after being in a hiatus for 3 years, am going todo the shura ending and maybe platinum the game 2 after the exams r done, wish me luck.
So funny story about the Corrupted Monk illusion. I had just shelled out everything I had fighting O’Rin, so I was clean out of Spirit emblems going into the fight. At this point, I wasn’t aware that Divine Confetti would do more damage, nor did I know that snap seeds worked on this boss. As such, it took me a long time to beat her. I’m talking weeks. It’s certainly harder than people give it credit for.
Grab attacks in Sekiro are some of the best imo.
In contrast to DS and BB, where Command Grabs are essentially some variation of “Grab-Crush-Slam” and “Grab-Stab-Toss”
Whereas Sekiro’s are “Grab-SLAM-YEEEEEEEET”
Cant forget the "Grab-Slam-Plop"
never forget gael's first phase grab attack, the biggest yeet in soulsborne history.
i hate how in the 3rd mini boss it already has a shitty grab attack
They are the absolute worst.
1.Warning Shows Up
2.You run to the other side of the arena
3. Enemy continues grab attack
4. Enemy teleports across the map
5.You attempt to dodge
6.Enemy 360 no scopes you
7. Die or Resurrect
8. DEATH.
*Chained Ogre flashbacks*
6:53 'thank god i don't have to pronounce it this time'
Procedes to instantly pronounce his name
did he mean masataka?
I just beat Sword Saint isshin for the first time yesterday. Ironically, I think I found the demon of hatred 100x more difficult. Gave up after 10 tries. Isshin feels more like a steady stream of progress as it really tests your mastery over what you’ve learned in sekiro. Once you take a seat back and see that, you see his patterns are pretty consistent.
(from a 200+ hours elden ring player) people say that it is really hard to change muscle memory when playing sekiro, but i downloaded it tonight and i didnt even press circle for the first 2 and a half hours
if elden ring was your first (and only) souls game then it wouldn’t be that difficult but if you’ve been playing since Demon’s Souls and you’ve played all the games since, it can be jarring to have to change your whole play style since the other games by fromsoft were dodging/rolling based
Divine Dragon boss fight is the most beautiful fight imo. I think it's more of a classic power fantasy battle.
Croz Raven all the ending area feels so surreal that I almost want a game just dedicated to the Divine.
Imperial Judesmen138 you’re just bad dude
Imperial Judesmen138 my only purpose in life is saying “over rated sentence”? lmao what a fucktard. Just don’t mix up your and you’re and maybe you don’t make yourself look like a fucking idiot. You wouldn’t miss a single lightning if you were so good the game lmao.
@Imperial Judesmen138 If your lightnings miss, *you* have problems. For example: not locking on the boss.
I actually beat all the bosses in one try without even playing the game and also before I was born
I don't believe you.
Why are there 3 other people with the exact same profile picture as you only slightly different in this very same comment section?
Edit: Never mind, my computer was being stupid for a second.
@@charlierashi100 I play Sekiro, ofc I drink Bleach.
@@fitnessabdul6811 I meant the original commenter lol.
@@charlierashi100 Oh.... Sorry....
These rankings are all subjective. If you're new, take them with a grain of salt.
Just got my Platinum after leaving 3 trophies behind, almost 2 years ago.
God it feels like im the only person who finds it way easier to deflect guardian ape than to dodge everything. I fought the bloody thing so much i basically became a machine just to deflect everything it threw at me apart from the one thing it actually *throws* at you
Same here. The people in the comments just didn't deflect properly. It's the player's fault, not the bosses fault. All his swings at you in phase 1 are delectable, and it didn't take me long to beat him.
Same here, also duo ape was 100% harder than guardian ape
Crapstick Memento I don’t deflect a single attack of his first phase, I just punish him after any and all of his attacks after I dodge them. Kinda like bloodborne style.
@@Zeldasouls Yeah that works too, guardian ape can be killed in many ways and is a totally fair bloodborne style boss
For the poop,I used mist raven to dodge
I loved genichiro because after a second play through on the tower,it makes me feel like a parry god before being spanked by King Kong
I love how the owl is a coward for fighting like we do lmao
I don’t know why but I’ve not struggled with any boss as much as I did with Emma, and I fought her on my third run through of the game. She leaves so little room for error and absolutely decimates me if I get her grab and sweep attack mixed up. I completely agree that she’s so much harder than Isshin Ashina.
Don’t mean to brag but I beat the Demon of Hatred without getting hit...
On my 283rd try 💀
Goat
You can cheese him and make him fall off a cliff
@@SableyeLive i think it was patched
@@AceSaboLuffy No i did that just yesterday.
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Just finished the first boss so I’m sitting here like, “shiiiiiit”
If what you're saying is true, you must be like ahhh shieeeeet these bosses gonn rape me
Why did you spoil yourself
@@iliasa.5298 well if I had to guess, he probably just couldn't help but peek like me
Temptation is a Terrible thing XD
The Game Master same
The cool part in sekiro isnt the story, it is the fight
Just finished my first playthrough, and the boss I struggled most on was Lady Butterfly, reason being I went into the memory almost as soon as I got the bell and didn't leave the memory until she was dead. One prayer necklace and two Gourds isn't exactly how you're meant to fight her, and I didn't figure out how weak she is to dodgesteps, so I think I was there for three or four hours straight. On the plus side, it made me git real gud real early, and I didn't struggle with any bosses after her until Guardian Ape (and the duo Ape fight) which were the only real speed bumps until Owl Father. I think I died to Genichiro and Great Shinobi Owl once or twice each, which I'm pretty proud of.
owl is the boss that teaches me it's important to take any chance to lower opponent's vitality
Sekiro has really consistent boss quality.
Even the area quality is extremely consistent, i can't imagine what they have in store for dlc (if they're making it that is!).
@@HMCarsSOA DLC must happen
The Mini-Bosses though... i wish there would be just one more, just one more variant other than the Headless, the Ashina-Samurai-Generals and the Kick-Dance-Sword-Bastards in Purple, White or Black. Seriously, it began to piss me off after some time.
@@SuperAmaton I completely agree, I wish there were more mini-bosses like O'Rin in the sense that they have a unique appearance, lore and being one of a kind, along with being a fun and fair challenge. I do love fighting those Shinobi guys but there are 4 of those!
Am I the only one that found isshin in his saint form easi? Maybe because I played sekiro as sekiro and not like dark souls which is the main reason of why the souls players found it too difficult once you have mastered the deflection and mikiri the game becomes a bit easier or easi directly at least for me I'm on new game plus 11 with no kuro's charm and demonic bell active and isshin can barely make any damage to me as well as the rest of the bosses in the game I think everyone would consider sekiro an easy game if they play it as sekiro and stop pressing the roll bottom
When you said "We aren't playing as a samurai but a shinobi." That was my clicking moment in the game. Not in the "let's cheese the whole game" sort of manner, but I started to appreciate everything about the prosthetics and how you should run away sometimes and breathe and find "smarter" ways to get past the enemies and bosses. In general it helped me to appreciate the game more as a whole. Thank you so much and great video! Subscribed😊
Yeah but I still kinda feel bad for throwing Demon of Hatred off the cliff by jumping on the roof
@@michac.8283 don't, its a shit boss
In my last playthrough of the game for the platinum, I don't think I used much of my prosthetics, it was really just sword on sword (or spear) battles, with combat arts in the middle
@@infernostudios8019 same except for shichimen and headless lol
Owl is also the first enemy you fight who can use the Mikiri counter. One of my biggest strategies was use a thrusting attack after a series of deflects to close the distance, do some damage, and leave him open for a few more swings to damage his posture.
I don’t think the developers anticipated how easy it was to grapple on m&k. I basically just ran down the monkeys on my first try and then realized the level was not a platforming challenge but a stealth/puzzle thingy.
Just wait, in the DLC we will learn that Isshin the sword saint and Orphan have a child togehter....
I already have nightmares..:(
And the child got fed with the remains from the demon of hatred
I hope to fight Tomoe in his prime in the DLC
ItoMadWorld even better, we need more waifu material
Sekiro DLC should have Mist Noble come back with King Allant and Pinwheel as cameos.
EDIT: Throw in Covetous Demon while your at it.
Sekiro DLC: Sword Saint Isshin, but with a minigun
@@francescolombardi3438 isshin riding gael riding midir
@@dergereatl8796with each having a separate health bar
Real talk I wish we could've got a dlc were we fought tomoe
@@dergereatl8796 While gael uses ludwigs holy moonlight sword
Ya know what really annoys me with regards to the Divine Dragon? It's that most of the playerbase doesn't seem to realise that you don't actually kill the Divine Dragon at all. You just steal its sweet tears, the thing is literally still breathing after you slice its tear duct.
For those who struggling with lady butterfly i beat her at early cause found out when she snaps all her minions she gives you time(wont attack you) to block all the butterfly projectiles (and during minion fight you can choose to ignore them and fight butterfly)
The most genuinely, straightforwardly difficult feeling fight for me was probably Owl (Father). I was stuck longer on Sword Saint, but Sword Saint is kind of an endurance fight and a good chunk of its difficulty just comes from how fucking LONG it takes.
Owl is more straightforward and just HARD with no caveats or increased added element of repetition.
Yeah same for me. What doesn't help is that I never managed to get into deflecting much. So I kept going at Owl Father untill I finally managed to beat him without deflecting at all. That experience helped with dealing with Isshin.
Me too! Yeah Isshin is not easy and it's a long fight, but at least his posture bar builds up faster and you can kinda be more aggressive with him. Owl Father is tankier, hits harder and his posture barely builds up, and even after learning all his moves, 1 mistake is very deadly! It took me almost triple the time it took me to defeat Isshin Sword Saint.
Moses_Jay Owl’s instant deathblows are what gets people IMO. If you let him step on you you’re getting one shot
@@timothywillox8564 Yeah 🤣 I don't think Isshin can counter you like Father yes?
If sword saint takes you long, then you aren't aggressive enough. Master deflects.
Excuse me,a part of the title is wrong. Its hardest to hardest bosses
Hardest to hardestest.
I feel like I was the only one who didn’t struggle at all with the demon of hatred. I felt that fight was so easy with none of his attacks being hard to dodge
As much as I love Isshin The Sword Saint boss, I still can’t believe that the fucker just pulled an Ashina Secret Art: Glock 18 on my ass which got me flabbergasted when I first fought him
Hardest boss is definitely the mist noble.. endless grind still stuck
Mist Noble too hard FromSoft plz nerf
What was From thinking designing this boss? I keep dying on the 76th phase....
Those game journos are right, sekiro does need an easy mode after all. Can't beat mist noble for the life of me.
pretty sure Mist Noble is impossible on NG+, I've been stuck there for almost 10 hours....
to be fair, if they give Mist Noble the suck-you-dry attack he would be much much harder
I LOVE these community rankings please keep them up
Father Owl gave me the hardest time, and isshin almost felt relieving afterwards!
Great Shinobi Owl is the only boss in the game I beat first try. He was so easy that I was waiting for a third phase that never came. TCM was miles harder
It’s odd how I died 8 times to the Guardian Ape, yet didn’t die once to the Ape Duo
I died 60+ times to the Guardian Ape, whereas the duo didn't take more than 5 attempts. Definitely much easier.
Same here. Smoked the 2 of them on the first try. The guardian ape on his own had me ready to smash my PS4 lol
@@robcranston6030 Totally! Couldn't believe i got the ape duo on my first attempt after getting my ass kicked by the guardian ape 20-30 times...
This happened to me too! I totally had it in my head that I was going to get obliterated and went into the fight more as a 'let's see how bad this is' mentality. Then I won. It wasn't a pretty fight though.. no firecrackers and a lot of crazy running.
To be fair, the duo fight would be much harder if the female ape has the complete guardian ape moveset. And the headless ape takes alot more posture damage with the loaded spear. And they attack mostly separate instead of ganking you like the shadows of yarnham for example.
You misspelled “Glock Saint”.
Being stuck on the ape with no firecrackers and hearing that the ape is like barely more than halfway on the list is just great🙂
It's always interesting to me to hear from the perspective of Dark Souls players because for me, who never played a Souls game before, but have a bunch of hours on monster hunter, a lot of the mechanics I see being mentioned as being difficult to adapt to were pretty run of the mill for me while what they found easy I struggled with. Guardian ape and the demon of hatred felt very average to me.
We need a Tomoe DLC that makes us forget even the thunder-counter mechanic
Lightning reversal please
OH SHIT!!!! i missed this type of boss ranking, with the scores and stuff XD
We'll try to strike a solid balance of my ranking and "community ranks" moving forward!
I brute forced the guardian ape because i didn't know about the cheese, so i learned to parry everything. Took me 4h to learn his patterns and its very satisfying when you have it perfectly down and kill him in only a couple of minutes after dying a 1000times. You can dodge the grabs by staying close and running under him, took me a while to realize x.x
Tbh the hardest boss battle for me was The owl (father) the first faze was annoying but when it got to his second faze I found him much easier, jumping over the owl strike then mikiri counter was pretty satisfying and easy to pull off.
Also with Ishin after learning the attacks it becomes pretty easy, especially his last faze with the lightning, for me it made it waaaay easier cause I could just stun tf out of him whenever he used it
Same
The real boss in the Great Serpent encounter is overcoming my fear and picking the controller back up out of my wall
Father Owl was difficult but when I was fighting with him, something magical happened, I got to deep into the fight that I completely forgot that I was real person ( xd ) It was like that anime fights between the main villain and the protagonists that are intriguing, 100% concentrated.
Damn, that's why I infinitely love FromSoft's work.
Same I actually went all out with him, focused on offense, deflects and dodging combined, read his every move. Actual sword clashing.
you're gay
Same here
Playing the game in japanese really gets you into character
Had the same moment but with Isshin the sword saint. I play on ps4 and talk pretty much all the time with my friends in the party. When i fought him I lost all the time, but when I then concentrated, I won and it was beautiful.
@They watch us eh your mother gave it to me
Demon of Hatred is the hardest boss, because as you said: It’s a survival, not a „I completely obliterated him.“
By now I can confidently say that I can beat Demon of Hatred every single time, but until I reached that point I‘d say I could defeat SS Isshin blindfolded. Because he makes you use the deflect mechanic, which automatically makes him 10x easier. He only has 1 combo that can really f|uck you up, which is his 2 sword strikes followed by the 3 vertical slash spear strikes, followed by a thrust. That move killed me 6 times until I finally grasped it.
DoH on the other hand just makes you regret your life choices if you don’t utilize Suzaku‘s Umbrella and the Malcontent‘s Ring.
34.81% of the difficulty in Sekiro is shaking your Souls like habits, and then remembering them at Demon of hatred.
I fucking loved the isshin fight, i'm so glad that the last boss fight was actually the hardest one in the game
it's always sad when the last boss is easier than previous bosses but sekiro managed to pull ahead on this one by a mile
the best thing about it is that he doesn't feel unfair, you just have to try and try until you beat him
i felt fulfilled after defeating him
i found isshin ashina more easier than genichiro :|, i did him in 5 try
Demon was the hardest for me.
@@ultra4949 want a cookie?
@@connorking5304 no
@@connorking5304 🤡
Holy crap Demod learned how to say "subsequently"!
The sword saint was a walk in a park after the demon of hatred.
I think a reason why Owl doesn't use perilous attacks, yet Father Owl does is because the second fight is in the past. He knows that those attacks wouldn't work on Sekiro, and so learned how to counter you, yet his second death leads to his first.
Try to beat some of the bosses on latest patch without cheese strategies that don't work anymore (at least most of them). I assume some people scored based on using those strategies.
I saved my firecracker cheese for the corrupted monk's final stage.
What I loved from Isshin the Sword Saint was how his moveset made his swordsmanship look so... godly, fast nimble economic moves that gave no room for a counter attack at first glans, he deflected as easily as you did, he seemed more like a pvp than a pve match, I will never forget the first time I fought him. Maere, Sekiro!
The Sword Saint is insane to learn, but once you nail down his patterns, it's easily the most fun boss fight in the game. So much so that I go back to it in the Reflections of Strength, the only boss that makes me use the damn thing. When you have him figured out, you're left with an amazing and fun boss fight.
My first playthrough, it took me two sessions to beat Lady Butterfly, I went to her after Gyoubu but before Genichiro. She was the first fight that made me understand the game, but Genichiro reinforced the lessons I'd learned. After I beat him, I refought the memory dozens of times just to keep practicing. Now I can reliably parry his entire cloud passage combo and destroy him in seconds. That practice made me a much better Sekiro player.
The game reminds me a lot of Bloodborne. Almost all the bosses are really high in quality, and taking them on is always an entertaining challenge
Even the witches of Hemwick?
@@bobsnob3073 They did say "Almost all"
@@JABRIEL251 fair point
For me Bloodborne has the lowest boss quality over all From Software games, but the Sekiro Bosses are really good
OVERLOAD25 I dunno if this is an unpopular opinion but I think DS3 has the most consistent boss quality in Soulsborne.
I had a harder time with the Demon of Hatred than with Ishiin but the fight with Ishiin was more interesting
YES ! I found Issgin very fun to fight even if it was hard whereas Demon of Hatred was not fun at all imo
The uneven terrain and half second unlockable along with projectiles.... just terrible. Winning that shit is just a matter of rng to me
Kuni - Kimina He was just tedious. It was a test of patience more than anything
@@timothywillox8564 almost every boss you can beat if you just wait and bait for cheap pokes but demon of hatred had so much HP it wasn't worth the trouble and with projectiles and such it wasn't really viable to wait and stay back. Next time I fight him I'll find a cheese strategy because I couldn't find any "safe" patient ways to kill him
Kuni - Kimina the cheese for demon of hatred is harder the fight itself
Sword saint's first phase can be easily mastered but his second phase attacks are much more harder to anticipate because the grass hides what he's doing especially when he uses his gun, you can only tell by the gun's sound