Sekiro is way different than other soulslikes even if some fundamentals hold true. Your stamina is equally as important as your own parries. Its all about breaking your opponent's stance before they break your's (later in the game this changes to a degree on lesser enemies but bosses remain the same). You have to decide when to parry or dodge and it can be hard to balance the two. But once you figure out how to eat stance's the game changes.
this post was submitted on 24 Jun 2024
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All the souls games kind of play similar, it's pretty likely those YouTubers have experience playing fromsoft's other games and have that mechanical knowledge with them.
I could see he though, I've seen ''first time playing bloodborne", and they are dodging guys jumping out from behind things, you can't do that without having played at least 2-3 times.
Yeah fair, if they're dodging traps first run it's sus. Or just good editing lol. But ultimately an experienced souls player having their parrys down and getting through a mini boss in 2/3 attempts (especially if it's one of those pattern bosses they reused) doesn't necessarily surprise me.
Edit- not to mention the timing window in sekiro is much more generous than DS.
Yeah if it’s an edited video you’re most likely seeing mostly the successful attempts; fans who want edited content want funny deaths, deaths where the player learned something, and successful attempts + payoff & moving along.
People who are the real deal usually run a LiveSplit timer on screen so you can tell when this is happening.
Mostly though, people who make a living on making gaming content are usually really good at games overall. Don’t compare yourself to someone who’s making a living doing it. If you were that good you’d also be doing it.
And finally, yeah I’m sure there are fakers out there. Dislike and move on.
Fwiw my first time thru bloodborne I was absolutely dodging guys jumping out from behind things. And often just dodging when going around things in general, even if there didn’t end up being any guys lol. At a certain point you’re just always expecting it.
Another similar game was Ghostrunner, the hardcore/ng+ mode in particular placed these guys that would blast you behind every. Single. Corner. You have to slide under the blast. So after a while I just started sliding no matter what, to an outsider it would have looked like I’d played those segments many times