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.

check out this vidoe

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WF7qLzJBoE

Go to 39:22 in the video.  Even though this is first Owl, its the same technique.  It puts Owl into that spin cycle where he does the same thing alot and you only have to deal with different variations a lot fewer.  I hope to find the Owl2 video if I can.