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Friday Fun Thread for October 14, 2022

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I've been doing a no-health-upgrades challenge run of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice the past week. I've made it up to Genichiro (about 40% of the game) after about 8 hours, 3 of which were just stuck on the Blazing Bull. The only other Fromsoft game I played was Bloodborne, which I absolutely loved, and I beat both Bloodborne and Sekiro in their hardest difficulties (or rather, the highest NG+, which are 6 & 7 for them respectively), but I've yet to do a challenge run of this sort, and it's definitely quite something. The enemies may be tougher in NG+, but at least the longer health bar provides decent room for error in fights, whereas on a fresh playthrough with base HP, there's many more one-shot deaths. And having to find/farm upgrades along the way means less access to tactics for cheesing bosses. Only solution is just to get good and consistent enough at the basic deflection gameplay to get through every encounter. It's difficult but exactly the kind of thrill I was looking for when I decided to try this challenge.