I hate how every Boss fight can just be cheesed.

[Grimno]

So I was having some difficulty on some bosses and I thought "Oh man I got to git gud!" but then I had the more purest thought. A simple word, a simple question was in my head

"Why?"

Why would I need to Git Gud? I asked myself. What was I trying to prove? What impact would beating this game have on my life. Nothing. It did nothing and no one cared if I got good or not.

I'm not going to walk up to an ice cream truck and go "I beat Sekiro" and they go "Congratulations here is your free rocket pop."

No. It wasn't.
And it dawned on me, every single freaking boss in this game has some abusable trick about it that makes the boss suddenly easy!
And I couldn't figure out if Dark Souls was the same. I don't recall cheesing Artorias. I don't recall the dragon having any cheap tricks but in Sekiro I started going down the list of BOSSES in the GAME.

So Spoilers Here.

Drunkard. Kill the guards. Run away. He'll reset. Stab him in the back as he walks away.
Butterfly Girl. Run laps around the arena and you'll dodge everything when she summons spirits.
Gun Girl A. Run up ramp, fall off, she'll jump off, get a free hit in, rinse/repeat.
Gun Girl B. Just go up high, let her stand in the poison, let poison kill them.
Owl. Literally backpedal in circles and hit him when he does the "Ninja Star, Ninja Star, Jump Attack". Beat this guy on my 4th try!
Ghost Musician. Just lead her to the idol, she'll back away and block, push her against the rock, and just attack/attack/attack. She can't do anything, dies.
Guardian Ape. Sprint around arena. Wait for him to do the 4-sword attack. Hit, repeat.
Shadow Ninja in the Dojo. Just puppet his buddy. He'll take care of it. Done.
Shadow Ninja in the father's bell. Run past, shadow puppet big dude with wooden shield, he'll take care of it.
7th Spear Guy. Keep distance, he'll try an undodgeable move, just do a running slash after he finishes.
Genchiro. There are latent abilities specifically made to screw this guy lol


AND THE LIST GOES ON!
There's no "Get up close! Parry the attacks! Dodge left, swoop right! Strike!"

It's all "Just do this..."

And it's, frankly hilarious.

[Bluetonic47]

I'm not going to walk up to an ice cream truck and go "I beat Sekiro" and they go "Congratulations here is your free rocket pop."

oww bless ... here you go.... have a "whally pop"...it's on the house buddy congrats !!!

[Shpeed Buscemi]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Grimno:

Why would I need to Git Gud? I asked myself. What was I trying to prove? What impact would beating this game have on my life. Nothing. It did nothing and no one cared if I got good or not.

And it dawned on me, every single freaking boss in this game has some abusable trick about it that makes the boss suddenly easy!
And I couldn't figure out if Dark Souls was the same. I don't recall cheesing Artorias. I don't recall the dragon having any cheap tricks but in Sekiro I started going down the list of BOSSES in the GAME.

AND THE LIST GOES ON!
There's no "Get up close! Parry the attacks! Dodge left, swoop right! Strike!"

It's all "Just do this..."

1. Why? So you don't feel like you cheated the game. Did you feel good cheesing bosses because you couldn't figure them out? Most of the ones you mentioned are minibosses anyways.

2. "There's no "Get up close! Parry the attacks! Dodge left, swoop right! Strike!'"
Yes, actually, there is if you don't cheese.

3. "It's all just do this". Well, damn. Who would have ever thought that certain bosses have certain weaknesses? Dark Souls surely never did that. Ever...

[Mister Shan]

Cheesed? I can't even get to the part of the Madame Butterfly fight that you claim is cheesed.

[Rhudda]

Getting better at games actually does have real-life benefits. This type of game will train your reflexes, timing, and possibly hand-eye coordination. It might also make some new connections in your brain because you have to think fast if you want to use different strategies. All in all it trains your brain, and that's a good investment into your future. Protects you from going batty in your old age, that does.

So when you're old and keep forgetting who your friends and family are, it'll all be because you cheesed the bosses in Sekiro. 's what you get for not gitting gud.

[xBGLx狂犬]

Honest battle vs tricks and cheese

All things are good on war

So why making threads such this? Just for fun and bait?

[Thats How We do action in Uganda]

Killing opponents while they are moving back to their position was possible in first dark souls so its nothing new. FS dont give a sh1t about cheese because most ppl cant find them anyway, or simply refuse to use them.

[Grimno]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Mister Shan:

Cheesed? I can't even get to the part of the Madame Butterfly fight that you claim is cheesed.

It's the 2nd phase.
The method is
"When she does illusions. Just run around like a NASCAR driver making "Zoom" noises running laps around the outside of the arena, and all her illusions, her kunai, even the butterflies can't hurt you and will keep missing."
Then after she does that she'll always do a "slash-slash-stomp" combo which leaves her open to attack right after. And you just, repeat this.

[Shichiya]

What kind of play style you choose reflects on your personality. I could cheese through the whole game, but why should I when the game was intended to be a sword clashing game?

But nobody is stopping you to cheese that is.

[OCTDUMPUS]

What do you play a game for?
Your own satisfaction, simple as that.

[Dark Messiah]

I like how he did not say anything about how to cheese Genchiro.

[Grimno]

Diposting pertama kali oleh Dark Messiah:

I like how he did not say anything about how to cheese Genchiro.

Well beyond getting the passive skills that basically target him specifically for posture he is probably the only fight where playing it as intended worked best.
Stay close so he doesn't use the bow, parry attacks, use the counter on his thrust attack.
Then counter the lightning on stage 2 as described by the note you find previously.
I did it that way, and it worked.
That is probably the only fight doing it the fight outright has the best results over any cheese method.

[Pnume]

Someone is looking for some attention....

[Aryend]

Why? It's a game, I want to have fun and learn the game, running around like a headless chicken abusing the AI in the most boring way doesn't sound fun at all.
If instead of enjoying the game and learning it, I'm just finding exploits to win and in the process sucking the fun out of it, why even bother?

[abraham_linkedin]

just play your damn vidyagame dude

[Cookie]

Then don't cheese? Idk, what kind a reply you want >_>