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Sekiro: Shadows Dice Twice Diaries - Part 4

Welcome back to my Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, a collection of connected articles where I recount my experiences of running headlong into a brick wall over and once more until enough of the bricks fall out that I can sneak through. Previously, I had finally managed to defeat the Shinobi Hunter, consummate my showtime Prayer Dewdrop Necklace, and make some headway at the Hirata Estate…

But before I could explore any further, I had to residue at the nearby Sculptor'southward Idol, as my wellness bar was criminally low. Once I returned to total fighting strength, there was only one way forwards left to me at the Estate: a bamboo-covered path leading uphill. Yet, in that location was also one path behind me that I hadn't even so explored. In the previous miniboss arena, in that location was a large bridge leading up to the fight. During some of my failed attempts, I had jumped downwardly there to rest on the various branches until the Hunter and the soldiers forgot about me and how I had just stabbed half of them to death. The water underneath had looked dark in the night, the river flowing downward from somewhere college up. I didn't want to abandon the fight earlier, merely at present that the Shinobi Hunter was never going to return, I thought to myself, "Why not have a look?"

Rushing backwards and passing by the newly respawned soldiers in a reckless endeavor to avoid battle, I made it to the bridge and down into the river with only a scattering of scrapes and gashes. I looked back downwards, seeing that the water concluded with a curt fall blocked from me past the bridge. Upwards information technology was. I swam forwards, charily looking this way and that to ensure that no soldiers or monsters would get the drop on me. Part of that included obsessively mashing the right analog stick to lock-on to any enemies that I may accept missed. Strangely, fifty-fifty though I never saw anything in in that location, the game kindly informed me that in that location absolutely was.

The camera shifted to a loftier bending looking downward at the water, showing the unmoving, bright, white dot of an enemy that I had successfully locked-on to. Only… in that location was nobody there. I shifted the right stick to see if this potential foe was alone and found out that there were allegedly two enemies effectually, right next to each other. I assumed that meant these 2 were likely Treasure Carps, wonderfully big fish that, when felled, dropped their scales, which I could use as a sort of currency to gain many useful items from another grapheme. With that in listen, please do non call back me a fool when I slashed at the water for several solid minutes in an try to hit something that was nowhere within the range of my sword. To exist frank, I might still be doing that today were it not for the enemies' eventual response. I suppose that a shinobi splashing his sword around in the center of a river for five minutes would be hard to miss for fifty-fifty the most oblivious undersea creature.

All of a sudden, this frustratingly motionless dot began to motility, equally though it were approaching me. That gave me break: Treasure Carps were designed to abscond at the starting time sign of trouble, but these mystery beings were approaching me? Instead of running abroad, they were coming correct for me. That could simply mean one thing: they were near to wipe the floor (or should I say, the river) with me. In a panic, I made a run for it. These were not carp! All the same, I couldn't exactly become back upwardly to where I'd been before; the soldiers were likely non going to be as easy to run past this time and I wasn't quite in my most tactical or stealthy mood at the time. Then I swam similar a mad ninja up the river, taking the kickoff take a chance I could to grapple up to 1 branch and and so another. My retentiveness and Sekiro's move alike were a mistiness and I had before long found my way upwards to a cliff.

I allowed myself to relax and grab my breath before taking a look around. This was the aforementioned sort of bamboo woods that was past the newly revealed Sculptor's Idol, so that identify couldn't have been too far. Peradventure this was a secret expanse or at least somewhere further along that path? I would have to double back in order to option up everything if information technology were the latter, but I couldn't not explore the new-ish locale! I was a bit disoriented, simply still I was able to slowly walk effectually, cautious of another sudden appearance of an enemy. It didn't accept me besides long to find the new foes, thankfully. There were a series of these armoured warriors walking around on a larger area below me and another soldier in the aforementioned armour near a fire merely across the path I was on. I snuck frontward, finding that, no matter where I turned, at that place were even more than soldiers. None of them seemed to notice me, and then I was rubber for at present. All the same, I was now surrounded by enemies that I had just never seen earlier in a location that I hadn't figured out the geography for yet. Where exactly would I retreat if these soldiers proved likewise powerful? Jump all of the mode down to the river? No, thanks. I would simply have to marking this area off for now, at to the lowest degree until I could see information technology from another angle or face one of these warriors in a safer environment. I snagged a nearby Mibu Possession Balloon before making my retreat. I didn't exactly feel condom going back the way I had come, but I possessed an incredibly useful tool: the Homeward Idol, which I used to ship myself dorsum to the Bamboo Thicket Sculptor's Idol.

Figuring the river behind me was a wash for now, I pressed on alee, snagging 1 Spirit Emblem on the path. Up ahead, at that place was some other soldier with a torch, another of my nigh hated nemeses. Thinking quickly, I grappled upwards to a nearby ledge to the left. Withal, as I prepared to strike, I noticed that I was once again right next to a large river, this ane existence on the other side of the path. I supposed that, equally much as I had hated the last experience, trying a different body of water likely couldn't hurt.

Dropping down into the river with a small splash, I looked around once more for anyone I could lock-on to, finding all the same some other mysterious underwater adversary somewhere beneath me. Unwilling to spend another moment in the same infinite equally this unknown being, I moved away from the cliff's edge and underneath a large span. As I swam underneath the supports, it felt equally though I was passing through some sort of imposing gateway, like a scared traveller being driven off of the road and into a manor endemic past a ferocious monster. These hopefully unfounded fears were soon completely wiped away when my furtive, darting eyes caught sight of a Treasure Bother. A real i this time, with a flash of orange scales peeking out from the water as the fish swam effectually.

I was on the Carp in an instant, chasing my prey upwardly the river and waiting for the perfect time to strike. Soon, my cursory line-fishing trip proved fruitful and I had a very pretty Treasure Carp Scale to prove for it. Up here, the river didn't extend any further — or at least, information technology didn't lead anywhere I could follow. Thankfully, in that location was a low co-operative connected to a raised ledge at the bottom of the nearby cliffside. Once out of the h2o, I had to cut my way frontwards through some bamboo trees, finally living the life of a picture show explorer cut through trees and vines to prove my inability to exist alongside plantlife, and the fact that I have a cool sword. On this short path, I managed to pick upward three more than Spirit Emblems and a unmarried dose of Contact Medicine. The Contact Medicine, which instils a weak poison on the user, didn't seem terribly helpful at the fourth dimension. The item's description carefully notes 1 possible application nevertheless: because being afflicted by one type of poisonous substance makes the player immune to all other poisons, accepting a toxicant that doesn't impairment them all that much can make areas and enemies that rely on poisoning their adversaries far easier to deal with. The description also mentions a "specific technique" that it tin exist used for, but I supposed that was just something I would take to figure out myself.

Later cutting past one concluding row of bamboo trees, I institute myself in front end of two brusk, symmetrical walls, arranged such that I could wall jump between them up to the top of the cliff. My showtime try in leaping to and fro up the cliffside concluded less than successfully. I had reached the top, only hadn't quite realised information technology and kept jumping. Eventually, in that location was no 2d wall to bounce off of and I instead fell all of the way back down, taking a small amount of falling damage. I had not even realised Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice had falling damage!

Withal, the 2nd fourth dimension was the amuse and I was soon atop the cliff, looking deeper into the thicket above. There was a short path around the corner, leading to this minor edifice that almost seemed to exist a temple of sorts. And atop that possible temple was another shinobi, framed confronting the sky. Was this someone I could talk to? A new NPC? I hadn't seen one in ages! I moved frontward, ane step at a fourth dimension, until I would be in range for the lock-on to work. Sadly, information technology did. And shortly after that worked, the ninja was on the motility, dropping down to my level in mere seconds, drawing his blade and advancing. A shame, to exist sure, but at least I was facing a new enemy blazon alone in a straight fight. I couldn't see his name, and then this was just a normal foe. I thought to myself that it might exist hard and I might die once or twice, only that I would be able to learn how to deal with him presently.

That was before I made four attempts and died twice every time.

This enemy, whom I learned was known equally an Interior Ministry Ninja, was incredibly fast and precise. With a series of kicks and bladework, he was unrelenting. I unremarkably tend to prefer dodging my opponents and baiting attacks, simply that was not working here. If I managed to move around an assail and get in close, I would find myself trading accident afterward blow. Every one of my hits on the Ninja were returned to me threefold. If I moved out of the manner of his strikes, I had to proceed backing up until I was full-on running away and around the building, and ultimately got hit once I lost sight of him. It took some getting used to, but deflecting the Ninja's attacks worked a lot amend in the moment. I was able to fend off most of his attacks this way, only in the process, I racked up loads of Posture damage. If I allowed my Posture to be depleted, I would be like shooting fish in a barrel pickings. Thankfully, the Ninja occasionally did a special kick that allowed me to employ my Mikiri Counter to leave him wide open for a moment. Still, he was dorsum on his feet and delivering blow after blow against me before I had a chance to restore my Posture.

Eventually, I grew unwilling to run a risk Dragonrot, a strange disease that can infect people in the game's world if Sekiro dies too oftentimes, and tried to find some sort of strategy online. One crazy idea that sounded interesting mentioned jumping back down to the water afterward engaging the Ninja in gainsay. Allegedly, he would stay on the ground rather than bound back up to his perch on peak of the building. This way, I would exist able to sneak up behind him and execute him with style and grace. With only 1 health bar, that would bring an terminate to the fight. Finally, a benefit to my greatest foe not actually being a miniboss.

Once again, I climbed. However, instead of engaging my swain ninja in close-quarters gainsay, I threw a shuriken from my Shinobi Prosthetic as presently equally I was in range, so loftier-tailed it out of there and jumped into the water. Once more, I took a pocket-size amount of falling damage, but that was a small toll to pay for revenge. Once more, I jumped dorsum and forth upwardly the cliff. I crouched as I rounded the corner, not wanting the sound of my running to alert the Ninja. I was happy to see that the internet communication was correct and that he was indeed standing effectually in the grass. I was less happy to see that he was facing the route leading up to him, meaning that sneaking around him was almost impossible. I took a deep breath. This was probably simply him retreating up the path subsequently I took so long to render to the clifftop; if I took less time afterwards shooting the ninja, I would probably be able to grab him. Once more, I threw a shuriken, only in my retreat, I instead jumped downwards the 2 symmetrical walls. It was much closer and would let me to get back up in record time! It was a genius idea.

However, that besides allowed the Ninja to follow me down, which I noticed when a blur passed along my screen as I fabricated my ascension for the tertiary fourth dimension in the fight. With a strangled yelp, I fell back into the river, hoping he wouldn't follow me. With a practised effort, I grappled upward to the nearby low branch once more. Moving around a lot tended to work wonders for evading my enemies' sights. At that place wasn't much room here, just if I could lose the Ninja in any way, this was it. All the same, the Ninja seemed to be following my moves and jumped into the river correct as I reached the branch.

Fourth dimension seemed to deadening down around me as fear dawned on me over again. Up at the clifftop, in that location was at least some space to motility around and reposition myself, but this depression cliffside had essentially zero room to manoeuvre. With the Ninja'due south unrelenting attacks, I would exist entirely screwed, even if he too had niggling room to jump around. I was admittedly scrambling for any kind of program that could salvage this mess, when… a message popped up on the screen. I've establish a Scrap Iron? Where did that come from?

I cleared the bulletin and money flew into me from the river. My most fearsome foe had drowned.

I felt guilty, coming out on summit in this impossible duel, not through nifty attempt or a well-planned play a trick on, but past sheer happenstance. At the same time, I could not contain my relief and joy at the lucky effect. All the same, I climbed back up a fourth fourth dimension. With no one to terminate me, I finally approached the front of the building, challenge the Mist Raven Feathers. Taking them back to the Sculptor in the Battered Temple, I received a new Prosthetic Tool, the Mist Raven. This new ability allowed me to essentially teleport around enemies whenever I took damage. I'm not ever smashing at using counter-like abilities, especially ones that actually require the user to take damage, only I was happy to accept the new tool as a reward. Particularly once I realised that poison damage also counted every bit impairment for the Mist Raven. Perhaps this was what the Contact Medicine's description had been referring to. If I could constantly have a modest amount of damage, wouldn't I be able to employ the Mist Raven to teleport whenever I wished to? Either mode, I was ecstatic to finally be done with the Interior Ministry building Ninja.

For now, at to the lowest degree.

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