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

[Sunstrider]

John2290 said:
@Sunstrider Spoilers ahead for anyone else, my rich text replies won't work so spoiler tags in turn won't work.
The boss that took me longer the Genichiro and lost his fun after an hour or two as he was so slow was Owl shinobi Father, when I started I was getting one shorted, couldn't even get him to 50% of the first health bar, I went bavk and finished some mini bosses and grqbbed some prayer beada and was able to withstand his attacks to about ten percent of one shot and every time I started doing well he'd add in a rare attack that would again one shot me so after another two hours or so I went and got more prayer beads and finished up more mini bosses for those as well as latent skills. Last night I spent another two hours and was about to give up when Rapterchris nudged me on to give it another go, I managed him on the third go and it was the first time I had gotten past his first death blow.

The difficulty on this boss, at least for me and besides the one hit kills without levelling up or farming sugars is the slowness, I'm sure plenty of people could take the fight to him and get his posture up but I couldn't after so many attempts of getting the heal rebuff, panic and get a reckt by him. I had to whittle down his health first and I eventually fell into the same method I used on the watch dogs of the old lords in Blood borne by I framing in a dodge last second before his attacks and spinning around his back with that early L1+r1 skill and then a slash and hoping a whirlwind slash gets both it's shots in before he blocks and/or prevents him from jumping back by catching him in the air.

I'm now on the curropted monk part 2 and The owl has broken my will to do this legit and of course the three deathblows, I have read you can take his first two and watched a video on it but I can not replicate then actions needs for the second onr so I'm going to be spending a hour at least on him I'd reckon. I had him down to his last death blow last night after a half hour so he is definitely easier than the other currpmopted monk or perhaps the arena is easier to get distance want bait him into attacks.

If you beat them on your 6th or 7th try good for you man but I absolutely suck balls at this game, every time I boot it up I have to run through my last unlocked area just to warm up and get my fingers loosened up and going rhythmically, there was a guy in mibu village standing alone in the river that is my go to now for a warm up spar. I do hear that the last boss, at least the one that is last if you choose the ending thst opens the last area, fountainhead palace is a four stage death blow boss and the hardest in a souls like game to date, souls vetrens have even needed to cheese it although I hav'nt seen it to avoid smokers, only know it by name.

Yeah he was quite overwhelming the first two tries, but after the the next ones he was quite easy to read compared to my nemesis, took down daddy'o after the 5th try, his actually fast for his build, and as for the True Corrupted Monk, you're right about the first two life pools, he can be taken down without a fight, then the third one is just like the first meeting, so you wouldn't have as much trouble as when you first beat him/her, unless you were really struggling with him/her at the first meeting.