General gaming discussion

Yeah, that's a staple of FromSoftware games; even the most basic b*tch random grunt can get a few good hits in and stunlock you to death. Everything is a threat and everything can kill you, especially if you start to get overconfident.

Lady Butterfly is a real challenge. Not quite on the level at the boss at the top of the pagoda we're all talking about, but she's definitely super tricky. Hell I got stuck on the boss outside her place (Juzo the Drunkard) for ages and even he was bad enough, especially trying to take out all the grunts around him first every damn time.

There are few easy bosses or areas in the game anyway, it all more depends on how you're meshing with the combat system when you're there. The main thing when it comes to bosses is just keeping the pressure on them as much as possible, and aiming to break their posture meter rather than slowly whittling down their health. Give them too much time or space and they punish you for it. Again it's what I love about that combat system in the game, you have to be every bit as relentless as the boss.

You could, but you pretty much had to take out all the goons, then hide and de-aggro him. He'd return to his original position and without the goons there you could then sneak up on him.

That said, even knowing that, I think it took me more than 20 tries. He very nearly had me quitting the game altogether, especially with the delay and tracking of some of his slower moves. I remember complaining here that he reached his sword back to do a downward swipe, and I had enough time to dodge around him three times, yet he was still able to spin around 270degrees on the heel of his back foot and still hit me. But that goes back to what we're saying about the combat not clicking early in the game. Dodging attacks is far less effective than standing there and deflecting it. It took me a while to get used to that.

Started Nine Sols last night. Haven't gotten too far, still trying to get used to the combat. My initial gripe is that visually, it can be hard to see the indicators of enemy attacks because of the white swipe your own attack leaves, so parries can feel off. Also not a huge fan of the move where if you parry, you can hold R1 and it puts the marker on them which takes a huge chunk off their health. I both keep forgetting to hold R1, or if there's more than one enemy it leaves you immobile and vulnerable.

They're not issues as such, just taking a bit of getting used to. But like I said, I'm still very early in the game and I'm sure I had similar (if not bigger) gripes with Sekiro when I'd started it.