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I love how our final enemy's attitude is basically "I respect what you did and wouldn't mess with you if it was up to me but this was my idiot grandson's last wish so HAVE AT THEE". e: Really bad page snipe. Final boss video at the previous page.
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so if the divine child and sekiro are on a journey to the west, does that make sekiro a monkey, a pig, some kinda river demon, or a horse?
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Jun 20, 2020 22:17
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It means it's a good thing he's already used to traversing dangerous mountains full of horrible monsters because BOY are there a lot of those in Journey to the West.
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Jun 20, 2020 22:22
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ThornBrain posted:
Really appreciating 5 minutes and 30 seconds into this video, because I did not comprehend the story of this game very well and had no idea why Isshin came out of Genichirou's shoulder when I looked up the final boss.
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Jun 20, 2020 22:25
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It was pretty rude of From to force you to fight Genichiro every time. He doesn't have much poise so you can kill him pretty fast if you rush him down, but the final fight is long enough as is and really doesn't need a speed bump on every retry.
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Jun 21, 2020 00:42
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You know what, I'd love to see From's take on Highlander. Somebody gift them the rights.
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So, here we are at the end, and I can finally share my theory about Kuro, Takeru and Tomoe. Earlier I mentioned that the Dragon is missing an arm and this likely became the Sakura tree in Ashina that you need for the incense. So, Takeru and Tomoe are for whatever reason trying to perform severance, same as Kuro and Wolf; however they are unable to complete the incense and thus cannot return to the Fountainhead. They still desire to perform severance, or perhaps Tomoe is falling to a madness similar to that of the Shura. In either case she ultimately strikes Takeru down (willing or not) with the Black Mortal Blade. In doing so, Takeru’s corpse gives rise to a new Dragon’s Heir, Kuro (Black). Perhaps this all happened because Tomoe was losing herself to bloodlust and spreading Dragonrot too much. In the end, she goes on to be struck down herself by Isshin, who learns his lightning techniques from her but declares her techniques forbidden for who knows what reason. He then hides away the Black Mortal Blade which later is retrieved by Genichiro, perhaps requiring the lightning of Tomoe to reach. The timing on all this is perhaps odd, but I am assuming Genechiro studied under Tomoe directly at some point instead of learning her techniques secondhand. Edit: Watching the fight itself and I have to say, one of the interesting things with Isshin is his first phase embodies something you can learn from Genechiro. Which is that you can keep bosses in parry loops if you remain aggressive.If you keep hitting Isshin, he weak parries twice and then strong parries, after which he will do one of four counter-attacks all of which are easily responded to. As for phase 3 it's possibly the best boss to use the mist-feather teleport, because if you use it neutral and get hit you jump into the air. So what happens is you get lightning hit on the groun teleport into the air to avoid the damage burst and then hit back. As for how you kill him, it's remarkably appropriate, he cannot kill himself so Sekiro acts as his second and decapitates him. Edit 2: So each of the three endings is actually somewhat thematically resonant with the endings of Bloodborne, but slightly remixed. In the first Sekiro/The Hunter becomes the mentor figure (Sculptor/Gehrman) however I think there is an implication but this one will be different for Sekiro, he does not show the anger/frustration/rage of the previous Sculptor merely sadness at loss, he will not become the Demon of Hatred because he feels sorrow instead. In the second, a new dawn arises, you have defeated the thing that is stagnating Ashina/Yahrnam and allowing life to continue, although who continues changes as The Hunter Awakens but it is Kuro not Sekiro who becomes mortal. The third is of course about new childhood and rebirth, much like the Childhood ending for Bloodborne, it's not easy to notice but the Divine Child has the start of a rounding belly and places her hand on top in a manner similar to a pregnant woman, thus the Divine Child becomes the Divine Mother and Kuro will be taken to the correct land of his birth ancestry to be reborn both physically and spiritually; this is supported by some of her dialogue about what the snake viscera will turn her into, a bed/cradle (both place of death and place of birth) for the Dragon's Heritage. Notably this continues a theme of something Dark Souls eluded to, wherein serpents are said to be corrupted dragons, and of course the giant serpents of Ashina are the same colour and treated as divinities much like the pale divine dragon, so that's kind of interesting. The likely pregnancy imagery also why there is an implication of time has passed by the Divine Child having an older looking face and larger model than previous, as well as her talking to the ghosts of the other children. I wonder why Emma isn't in that ending at all, even though she's in the other two quite prominently. Lord_Magmar fucked around with this message at 06:14 on Jun 21, 2020 |
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Jun 21, 2020 05:23
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a cartoon duck posted:so if the divine child and sekiro are on a journey to the west, does that make sekiro a monkey, a pig, some kinda river demon, or a horse?
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Jun 21, 2020 08:22
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I really don't want to see a sequel to this. I feel like the only ending that would preserve the gameplay conceit would be the Shura ending, and gently caress making that the official end.
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Jun 22, 2020 22:31
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a cartoon duck posted:so if the divine child and sekiro are on a journey to the west, does that make sekiro a monkey, a pig, some kinda river demon, or a horse? Well he takes over for Orangutan in the "Divine Tears" only ending so Monkey makes sense 
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Jun 23, 2020 00:40
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RareAcumen posted:Really appreciating 5 minutes and 30 seconds into this video, because I did not comprehend the story of this game very well and had no idea why Isshin came out of Genichirou's shoulder when I looked up the final boss. It isn’t a Souls game until I need to look up why I was fighting the whoever I was fighting at the end (because I died so much I completely forgot what was going on).
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Jun 23, 2020 00:49
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I agree with everyone’s sentiment about closure, sad as I’m am that we probably won’t be getting more Sekiro. I can believe that Wolf and the Divine Child’s journey to the West will be long and hard, but it’s a hopeful journey. Having them head back into a classic FromSoft world of misery would lessen it.
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Jun 23, 2020 00:51
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I assume a sequel would be The Adventures of Young Ishhin.
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The Lone Badger posted:I assume a sequel would be The Adventures of Young Ishhin. That'd just be a musou style game.
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I totally understand why it wasn't done in the video since it would mean you don't get to see the cool new moveset; but it's both almost comedy and a nice bit of growth in the fight against Genichiro that once you dodge his first big Mortal Blade sweep, he dies very easily to R1 spam. Just attacking over and over will interrupt most of his moves and build his posture up fast enough for a quick kill. Once a tough boss, now outgrown.
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bewilderment posted:I totally understand why it wasn't done in the video since it would mean you don't get to see the cool new moveset; but it's both almost comedy and a nice bit of growth in the fight against Genichiro that once you dodge his first big Mortal Blade sweep, he dies very easily to R1 spam. Just attacking over and over will interrupt most of his moves and build his posture up fast enough for a quick kill. The R1 thing works for all versions of Genechiro and the first phase of Isshin. You can lock them into a very small movelist by being aggressive. In fact as the final boss says, Hesitation is Defeat.
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bewilderment posted:I totally understand why it wasn't done in the video since it would mean you don't get to see the cool new moveset; but it's both almost comedy and a nice bit of growth in the fight against Genichiro that once you dodge his first big Mortal Blade sweep, he dies very easily to R1 spam. Just attacking over and over will interrupt most of his moves and build his posture up fast enough for a quick kill. I love how FS designed the Genichiro encounters as it shows how much Sekiro and the player have grown throughout the game. The first Genichiro fight is basically a scripted loss, the second one is a duel between two equals, and then in the last fight he's a complete pushover whose only purpose is to give you a bit of Resurrection orb charge.
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Obviously this or any future LPs won't be continuing here on SA while Lowtax still owns it, so if you want to keep up-to-date, just subscribe to the YouTube channel and hope YouTube actually tells you when new videos go up, or join my Discord where we post all our video and stream updates.
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Lowtax killed lps
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I still blame Retsutalk. They had Lowtax on, they had TotalBiscuit on, they only mentioned JonTron and Kevin Spacey and both of them suck now.
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ThornBrain posted:Obviously this or any future LPs won't be continuing here on SA while Lowtax still owns it, so if you want to keep up-to-date, just subscribe to the YouTube channel and hope YouTube actually tells you when new videos go up, or join my Discord where we post all our video and stream updates. I respect your decision. I already follow you guys on Youtube and look forward to a day when goons can again gather without giving money to a wife-beater to do so. Thanks for the good LPs.
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Now that Lowtax is gone, I at minimum feel okay with posting the remaining updates and concluding the thread. I'm still dubious about posting new LPs here, but I'll consider it.    We do also have LPs that I chose not to post here and are too far along to post now: Graveyard Keeper, with Skippy Granola and YamiNoSenshi - Jet Force Gemini, with Jacob - and Jacob's LP of Doom 64 with me and TorpidTypist. I may post Tony Hawk's Underground if Sally or Fedule says it's okay, since only two parts are up so far.
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Sounds like you'd be fine posting all of the above if you would like to, from the new pinned post.
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Looks like it. I'll get those up tonight. E: Alright, Tony Hawk's Underground, Jet Force Gemini, Graveyard Keeper, and Doom 64 are all up now. I refrained from posting the latter three in the "New LPs" thread since they're so far in. ThornBrain fucked around with this message at 02:49 on Oct 11, 2020 |
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Heya folks, don't know if anyone still has this thread bookmarked, but here's the scoop: Between my last post and now (like, two weeks after it?), there was a major content update for Sekiro that added in boss rushes, some costumes, and minor online player interaction. I'm well out of practice with the game, and was at the time of the main LP ending, but I'm replaying the game to see if I can get those instincts back. If so, there will be one more video for this LP showing all the new stuff. The gauntlets get extensive, so it may be recorded in a livestream, and I can't make any promises about if/when that will happen. I just wanted to post here and let you all know that I'm considering it, since I went into this LP intending for it to be comprehensive and completionist. I'll let you all know how things turn out.
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Aw Jeez, good luck with that. I know how difficult this game can be at the best of times, and the idea of a boss rush is terrifying.
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Glad to hear you're going to "finish" the game on this sense! When the gauntlets released my experience of picking up the game again after like a year was pretty rough, but I did a fresh NG playthrough with all the increased difficulty things on and by the time I'd finished I was well ready for the gauntlets and didn't actually struggle much with them once I'd practiced the new "inner" bosses a bunch.
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I'd welcome someone else's experience regarding the boss rushes. I still play the game from time to time, and while I'm SO MUCH better than I used to be, I don't know that I have the honest urge to learn some of the "inner" bosses with their "we kill you now" moves. Then again, a new combat art...
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The new combat is really cool and I practically never take it off.
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Alright, folks, it's happening! Jacob and I are looking at the free content DLC live today at 2PM Pacific, 5PM Eastern: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3lUyjRUd5A
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 And here is the stream cleaned up and public! Thanks again to anyone who stuck around, and here's hoping Code Vein and Bloodborne aren't another year in the future.
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Nice  Thanks for showing this off after all this time.I'm not sure who that first alternate player model is supposed to be; just some random shinobi?
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Carpator Diei posted:Nice In the deacription it says it's an uniform that used to belong to Sekijo aka the Sculptor.
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WaltherFeng posted:In the deacription it says it's an uniform that used to belong to Sekijo aka the Sculptor.
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Clarification of how items work in gauntlets: They only go away during the gauntlet, so you can run out between bosses. However once you leave the gauntlet, they're back to where you were. I had one of the special named Jizo statue with none in storage, and I used it several times during practice. So if you just care about the unlockables and not being the biggest gamer badass, that should help! You guys inspired me to make a concerted effort to at least get the unlockables, if not that long-rear end final gauntlet. I changed up some strategies I was using, got more confident about using the step-dodge, and finally beat the first two this week. I almost beat inner Isshin on my second go at him while chugging every healing item I could. Edit: Beat the Severence gauntlet last night! I only used most of my super healing items on Inner Isshin, and I never successfully dealt with his three-part perilous combo without taking damage! Dr Christmas fucked around with this message at 06:03 on Jan 28, 2022 |
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I would really like to at least get the new art by beating the first gauntlet but I just can't find the gumption to figure out inner Genichiro. You'll just have to rock that new art for me...
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