There's only one fight in Sekiro that I absolutely hated

Just finished Guardian Ape, and up to this point the only fight that I was completely frustrated by was the Lone Shadow Swordsman, and that was mainly because the camera there was atrocious.

The game doesn't seem as ball-bustingly difficult as it was made out to be. It's easy enough to just mash the deflect button for most enemy combos, at least to this point.

Maybe it's because I've only played Bloodborne before this, so I don't have a lot to unlearn from the other games.

he's a lot easier if you plunge attack him

Sekiro is at its most punishing, but also its most fun and rewarding, in NG+ playthroughs where you can give up the charm and you take chip damage from any non-perfect deflection. That really feels great when you get it down.

Darkninja42 posted...

It's easy enough to just mash the deflect button for most enemy combos, at least to this point.

once you learn that there is no downside to spamming the deflect button it gets a lot easier.

Some reason I assumed you couldn't deflect the Guardian Ape since he was the first enemy of that size. So I beat him without using deflect.

Giant_Aspirin posted...

Darkninja42 posted...

It's easy enough to just mash the deflect button for most enemy combos, at least to this point.

once you learn that there is no downside to spamming the deflect button it gets a lot easier.

Yeah I think that's what I realized. I just love that there's no stamina in this, I can't stand that mechanic in games.