Sekiro

I'm like a little over a year into being sober as a judge (please don't congratulate me). At the end of my use, one of my favorite bender activities would be to smoke meth and play sekiro for days at a time, just going through remembrance fights until I could do them hitless. I must have fought inner father like 300 times. I never was into playing charmless but I did get down with demon bell.Anyways after I quit I was obviously miserably depressed for like a 6 months and I was just incapable of enjoying sekiro. I tried playing more shortly after I quit but I think my brain was just too screwed up from the months and months of extreme sleep deprivation, plus dopamine mega blasting I put the poor thing through near the end. It was sorta sad but at that time I had bigger fish to fry.Anyways school is out for the summer and I was getting yoked for the elden ring dlc. After I beat mohg, on a whim I popped open sekiro and started a new save. Which I've tried to do a number of times, but just could never really get into it. This time though after I slogged through the opening and beat the horsey dude (lamest boss I have +600 hours in this game - I don't even remember his name), I said "fuck it can we do the bull?". The answer was yes we got the bull first go.Anyways fast forward like 4 or 5 days later, beat owl father first try, and then tonightISHHIN FIRST TRY BITCHESI still need to get demon of hatred which will not be a first try win (I loathe that fight it does not come as naturally to me as some of the others)But getting isshin on my first go after putting the game down for a year was such a good moment. It was like what they say about riding a bike or something. Crazy shit. This game slaps. Easily my favorite fromsoft game. No bells, no whistles, just some very *very good stealth missions and boss fights.

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