Way to unlock One Mind manually or save editing?

[Wizard of Weebs]

I just finished the game for the first time and only now find out that you can only get One Mind if you go through another ending. Really dont wanna go through another NG+ without it. Anyone have any suggestions or know any mods that can allow you to unlock it?

[arthur]

i think that there's no mod you need NG+

[melojei]

honestly if you care so much about it, why not play through the game again? for me i don't mind playing through multiple times to get each ending because i thoroughly enjoy the game.

[Wizard of Weebs]

Originally posted by melojei.:

honestly if you care so much about it, why not play through the game again? for me i don't mind playing through multiple times to get each ending because i thoroughly enjoy the game.

Cause I want to enjoy the fruits of my labors??
Im pretty sure if I did another whole playthrough, I would be burnt out by the time I finished and got what I wanted. The second playthrough is meant to be the retirement run where I can enjoy myself from the fruits of my labors and hardships.
Thanks for the "help" but I already found a way to get it via a mod.

[Evilcheesewheel]

Originally posted by Wizard of Weebs:

Originally posted by melojei.:

honestly if you care so much about it, why not play through the game again? for me i don't mind playing through multiple times to get each ending because i thoroughly enjoy the game.

Cause I want to enjoy the fruits of my labors??
Im pretty sure if I did another whole playthrough, I would be burnt out by the time I finished and got what I wanted. The second playthrough is meant to be the retirement run where I can enjoy myself from the fruits of my labors and hardships.
Thanks for the "help" but I already found a way to get it via a mod.

But it isn't a full playthrough, the game ends at Owl if you go for One Mind.

[Alexoferith]

OK. There are 4 endings for this game. You only got one of them. And it was one of the 3 longer ones. Was it the ending where you kill yourself to save Kuro (Purification)? That was the first one I had went for myself. Or was it the one where you kill Kuro (Severance - the most obvious ending)? The 3rd ending (all these 3 endings are the long ones, i.e. you get to face nearly all the bosses, except 2) is where neither you or Kuro die. Well, Kuro got "reborn".
The 4th ending, some called it the worst ending, is what you will have to get if you are looking for the One Mind combat art. This is also the shortest as you will not have access to FountainHead District once you get this ending.
By the way, do you know that you can defeat all the bosses without upgrading your vitality and your attack power status at all? But you will have to have God like skill in terms of success rate in perfect parry / deflect ability. There are quite a few Youtube videos about this, where some might have achieved this with a MOD, some actually did it without MOD (check out Ongbal's Youtube Videos).
I can understand why you don't want to have another playthrough of this game. I was like you after my very very first 45 minutes in this game. Then I just stopped for about 4 or 5 months. Meanwhile, I have found out that this game is about perfect parry, i.e. "deflect just when enemy's weapon is just about to reach Sekiro..." from watching Ongbal's videos. I also understood that each person has different reaction time. So I went back to the game and treated it as a challenge to myself. I cheated though, as I have found out how to manually saving the saved game files and restored them when I got killed. This way, I could "try and try" again to learn how to do perfect parry. After 3,000 hrs in the game (oh, I stopped backing up the saved game files tactics since Feb 2022), on a good day, my success rate in perfect parry can be up to 90%. Average is 70% to 80%.
Oh, there is a hard mode. Once you have completed the game once, no matter which ending, once you start a new game, be a normal one or a NG+, during the very first conversation with Kuro, or rather at the end of it, you have the option to give back the Kuro's charm to him. Without this charm, every time you block enemy's attacks, you will lose bit of health and posture. By the way, if you mistime a parry, it will be treated as a block. Oh, all enemies have more health and cause more damage. So, even if Sekiro has max vitality and posture, Sekiro can still be killed with 3 to 4 mistimed parry.
This, is the challenge I have enjoyed so much. In fact, I will embark on another playthrough after I get all achievements in A Plague Tale: Requiem.

[melojei]

Originally posted by Wizard of Weebs:

Originally posted by melojei.:

honestly if you care so much about it, why not play through the game again? for me i don't mind playing through multiple times to get each ending because i thoroughly enjoy the game.

Cause I want to enjoy the fruits of my labors??
Im pretty sure if I did another whole playthrough, I would be burnt out by the time I finished and got what I wanted. The second playthrough is meant to be the retirement run where I can enjoy myself from the fruits of my labors and hardships.
Thanks for the "help" but I already found a way to get it via a mod.

lmao, what labor? you're modding it in cause you're too lazy to just do the extra playthrough for it. each playthrough bring a different reward, and typically your successive playthroughs tend to be faster as you learn what to do for what you want to achieve. just sounds like you're an entitled spoiled brat who wants everything handed to them after single playthrough lmao.

[Kurobon]

You don't get to enjoy fruits of the labor you have yet to do, which is meet the criteria to unlock the skill. One Mind sucks anyway.

[Wizard of Weebs]

Originally posted by Kurobon:

You don't get to enjoy fruits of the labor you have yet to do, which is meet the criteria to unlock the skill. One Mind sucks anyway.

Its a cool skill and is good when you know how to use it. Besides, I just beat the boss anyways using boss rush. Was the only way I could get it lmao