Context. I’m new to sekiro. This is my first soulsborne/from soft/miyazaki game. It took me 30 odd tries to get past the first miniboss who teaches you about perilous attacks. Now I’m getting skullfucked by six mooks and a troll with a hammer who think its perfectly ok to gang up on me.I decided to look for a few youtube videos of new sekiro players also facing difficulty and slowly overcoming them so I dont feel like I’m just bad, and that the struggle is normal. But EVERY single one of them seems to have their parry timing down pat, they’re blazing through the game, 2-3 tries on minibosses, there is NO shot this is their first playthrough.What am I missing? I’m just really trying to get better at this game (and I can see myself slowly improve), but god damn. “first time playing sekiro” my ass.Rant over, you may now tell me to git gud and/or kms.EDIT: Got past the part that was frustrating me. Stealth’d ALL the way through lmao.
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.
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
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.