Sekiro: Shadow die twice, holds strong at 90 on Opencritic based on 111 reviewers. GotY?

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John2290 said:
I broke my no internet rule for areas and bosses I hav'nt yet beaten because the Corrupted Monk is so fucking ridiculously hard compared to what has come already and after two hours doing guerrilla style in and out attacks on him chipping away at hus health only to get backed into a cave wall and pretty much one shotted I was correct, It's a fucking gimmick fight with absolutely no in game explanation or a hint as to the reason what the item (or why) you use on him. Technically it is only half of a gimmick fight or confirmation that the developers knew that the bosses health bar and posture damage was so OP that they added a back door...maybe. I don't know what this is but I'd have much preferred had they just started him on about 75 percent of his health and cut his posture damage by 10-20 percent to make it a, still VERY hard fight even by the most OP players at that point in the game but still manageable while playing the way it is obviously meant to be played in a clash of swords.
I'm watching someone beat the boss legit now, no gimmick on YT the correct way and it is such a Godly sight at 1 minute and 30 seconds I have to wonder if it is one of the developers or QA testers.

I go by my own rule as it seems to work for some/a lot of the bosses, mini-bosses included, always bring your firecracker prosthetic, luckily it worked on him, then as usual, deflect most if not all of the attacks until I posture break the boss, good thing this boss fight is quite easy as he only has 1 life pool compared to the Great Ape, only took this guy down on my 2nd try.

And of course, there is an even easier way to take this boss down, and it's with the

Spoiler!

Mortal Blade.