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

[Machiavellian]

John2290 said:

Machiavellian said:

The technique I saw with Owl2 is almost the same as the one for Owl1.  You let him swing his blade which he will do that one chop and circle around him and hit him from the back.  Always close the distance between you and Owl so that when he throws the firecracker you can run behind him and hit him from the back.  You are basically running at him all the time keeping close and running to this back when he makes his attack.  You are basically always running and actually not doing a lot of deflection and keeping close and aggressive.  If I can find the video I will post it.

That is how I beat him the first time, swinging around I'm his back with an I frame and often am able to do it in phase one of this fight but in phase two all of that goes out the window, it only adds one more attack and the disappearing shit but it's that disappearing act that makes these tactics impossible as you can see in my video, he I frames himself so you are forced to engage in deflect combat with the odd chance of getting an I frame in if you let him close the distance. It is so brutal.

I watched the video, the only thing I saw that was different from the guy I watch beat him every time was that you wasn't as aggressive.  In his second form you must always close the distance to get him to do the one hit shot.  When he disappear is only when you step away until he appears before closing again.  Its still tough but should cut down on some of his multi attacks.