emma the gentle blade

[Sokurah]

i guess i'm going on NG+ because i want to do the owl memory, which i missed.

Should i also fight emma, is the fight worth it?

I dont really wanna fight her and betray kuro.

What would i miss :)

[Sasha Mason]

If you want to go for all Endings, yes worth it.

[ahaha.wav]

You miss out on an ending and a pretty cool combat art, as well as the achievements for both of these (Shura ending and all combat arts, respectively).

[Sokurah]

Okay maybe... s**t i thougt i would have no Problem with genichiro now but his grab attack is just unfair 😭

[Denizen 38]

You can't do the second Hirata Estate memory and the Shura ending in a single playthrough - they are mutually exclusive.

Just to make the choice a bit harder, I'd say each path contains one of the two hardest bosses in the game! I'm not sure which one I'd rather put off until a further NG+ cycle! If I was really forced to choose, I'd probably say that the final boss of the Shura ending is the harder one, so I'd get that out of the way in NG+(1) and go for the Purification ending in NG+(2).

[ahaha.wav]

Publicado originalmente por Denizen 38:

Just to make the choice a bit harder, I'd say each path contains one of the two hardest bosses in the game! I'm not sure which one I'd rather put off until a further NG+ cycle! If I was really forced to choose, I'd probably say that the final boss of the Shura ending is the harder one, so I'd get that out of the way in NG+(1) and go for the Purification ending in NG+(2).

Yeah I think the Shura ending boss gave me more trouble than anything else in the game because of the insane fire AoE attacks, genuinely not sure if that was just because I was on (I think) NG+2 when I did it.

[Burdpal]

Doing Shura on NG+ is so much harder. Base NG save file has damage numerics at baseline, and your personal damage/ posture scaling is pretty normal. I did Shura on NG+2 and it was more of a pain than it needed to be. I do enjoy the fights though (Emma's fight music makes the fight so sad).

[Sokurah]

Whats the shura boss. I found isshin pretty hard. Was like 6 h. or so in total 😳

[Sasha Mason]

Publicado originalmente por Sokurah:

Whats the shura boss. I found isshin pretty hard. Was like 6 h. or so in total 😳

What do you mean with "What's the Shura Boss"?

[Sokurah]

Publicado originalmente por Mason™ of Germany:

Publicado originalmente por Sokurah:

Whats the shura boss. I found isshin pretty hard. Was like 6 h. or so in total 😳

What do you mean with "What's the Shura Boss"?

See post from ahaha.wav above😁

I guess the shura ending is when you stay with owl?

[Sasha Mason]

Yes. Staying with Owl is the Shura ending but you already said what boss it is in your first post.

[Sokurah]

I just look in the neet. You fight emma and isshin or not?

[Smug]

It's a great fight, there's no reason you shouldn't do every boss at least once.

[Sokurah]

But that means at least 3 runs

[Smug]

It doesn't take long to sprint though to Shura really.

[Sasha Mason]

Publicado originalmente por Sokurah:

But that means at least 3 runs

4 runs because there's four endings. Why are people so afraid of NG+? You keep everything. No more prayer bead, gourd seed and prosthetic tools to look for. Just sprint through the levels, beat the mandatory bosses and a NG+ run can be done in a couple of hours.