Admittedly I suck at Sekiro. I have 58.9 hours in the game and haven't been able to get past Genichiro. I've died to him at least a hundred times now. Have explored everything else up to this point that I can, including defeating all the other bosses up until him. Completed the Hirata Estate, defeated Lady Butterfly without too much problem, practiced for hours and hours with the tutorial npc. Read the guides about how to beat Genichiro by being aggressive, deflecting and learning his moves, mikiri counter etc but every time I get to his third phase I don't have enough health to survive the jumping lightning deflections even with several prayer necklaces and 8 gourd seeds at the very beginning... people talk about the game finally "clicking" for them at this point. For me it's a dead end.Tried again to beat him today for 8 hours but couldn't. My computer was starting to overheat so I went to plug in a fan next to it and slipped. The computer came unplugged and accidently shutdown. When I plugged it back in and tried to restart, blue screen of death. Tried a recovery USB, said system could not be repaired. Tried a Windows USB, says can't be installed on any of my hard-drives. PC is totally bricked for now. I'm going to have to individually remove each hard-drive and save what I can. Hopefully my main drive isn't completely corrupted.I think this is the sign I'm done with this game. It's not for me. In retrospect it's not worth spending 60 hours just to get stuck in the first half of the game, bricking a $2000 PC and potentially losing thousands of hours of work if my hard-drives aren't recoverable. Today sucks.
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