Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice Walkthrough Part 9 – Ashina Castle Upper Tower

29.03.2019

General Kuranosuke Matsumoto

Get in place on the rooftop to leap down into the group of riflemen guards, stealthblow one from the air, then make your means taking out the remaining, avoiding the massive samurai for final.

When he’s the one one left, grapple up onto the wall once more then grapple once more throughout to the roof on the opposite aspect. If you stroll all the way in which to the top and drop down you’ll break the samurai’s aggro, which means you’ll be able to sneak up behind him as he walks again up the steps and stealth him for a head begin on injury.

With him weakened, strategy this struggle much like the primary samurai Yamauchi and the Seven Spears struggle – wait till their combos end to swoop in for counter blows or Whirlwind Strikes, and double soar on their head to deal posture injury and get some low cost hits in.

Once his well being is lowered and his posture begins to heal slower, whip out your Shinobi Axe and get to work meting out some actual injury to his posture bar.

Keep up the aggression from there, deflecting his common sword blows and leaping over his sweeps to amp up the momentum.

With him down, you’ll get a Prayer Bead to your bother. Now go and open the chest subsequent to the place he was standing and also you’ll get some Divine Grass.

Now go proper across the nook and also you’ll see a person sitting on the ground hiding. He’s a thief being pursued by guards, and in the event you take out a lot of the guards within the space he’ll seem on the Dilapidated Temple and promote you objects.

Now make your means again to the Ashina Castle Shrine to relaxation and replenish your Healing Gourd.

With your fees again, return up the steps and grapple onto the right-hand wall.

Grapple throughout the rooftops in entrance of you, and bear left, you’re aiming to get to the roof of the tallest tower that the massive samurai was standing in entrance of.

When you get to the sting of that roof, you’ll be attacked by some quick crow ninjas. If you allow them to spin up they are often completely lethal, so strive as arduous as you’ll be able to to deflect their blows and aggressively preserve the stress on them till they’re damaged.
As you stroll alongside the roof, one other ninja will fly by means of the sky and attempt to land on you, which offers a ridiculous quantity of harm.

Sprint again the way in which you got here away from this and cope with him in the identical means because the others.

The crow ninjas have low well being and weak posture, so to cease your self being overrun attempt to concentrate on one by one, defeat them, then transfer on.

When you attain the top of the roof, go round to the fitting, and also you’ll be beset by but extra crow ninjas.

When you attain the following nook, flip proper once more, staying conscious that one other flying crow will smash into the roof.

Around that second nook you’ll see a excessive window that you would be able to grapple as much as – make your means up right here.

This is the Upper Tower of the Castle. Open the Treasure Chest in your proper to seize a helpful Gourd Seed, then relaxation on the Sculptor’s Idol simply previous it.

Head again to Emma on the Dilapidated Temple to present her the seed, then warp again right here to press on.

Sabimaru

From the Antechamber Shrine, go up the little staircase and round to the fitting. Go by means of the open display screen and also you’ll see the again of a blue-robed samurai. Deathblow him, then flip proper by means of the second display screen.

Wait for the second samurai to stroll previous along with his again to you, then sneak up and deathblow him.

Now soar down the hole in the course of the room and fall all the way in which to the underside.

On the fitting you’ll see a bunch of guards, take them out – paying particular consideration to the samurai – then undergo the door they have been in entrance of.

In this room you’ll discover a treasure chest containing the Sabimaru, a poisoned blade attachment to your shinobi prosthetic.

Now run again by means of the room the place you fought the guards and out the opposite aspect, right here you’ll discover a door that you would be able to open again out to the place you fought the samurai common.

Make your means again to the Ashina Castle Shrine, then journey again as much as the Antechamber Upper Tower Shrine.

Now return up the steps, round to the fitting and take out the samurai.

Turn proper into the central room, let the second samurai stroll round previous you, then sneak up and cope with him too.

Wait for the outdated woman on the opposite aspect to stroll together with her again to you too, then sneak assault her as effectively.

There ought to be one other samurai strolling across the nook in entrance of you. Crouch-walk behind him and comply with across the nook, then take him out as he’s searching of the window.

Now look left. In the aspect room are two extra samurai, so sneak in there and deathblow one. Face as much as the opposite, blocking his common strikes and giving his thrust lots of distance.

When they’re completed, stroll over and hug the far wall of the room – it’s a secret room that you’ll find a Prayer Bead in.

Return to the aspect room and grapple as much as the attic utilizing the purpose on the backside of the room.

Creep round and also you’ll get to the a gap in a ceiling. Drop on the guard that you would be able to, then withstand the samurai. Two extra will come across the nook, so preserve your wits about you, specializing in breaking their posture one by one so that you’re not overwhelmed.

When they’re completed, cope with the outdated woman within the nook, then go across the nook the place the opposite two samurai got here from.

Walk up the steps and take a left. You’ll discover a Sculptor’s Idol right here the place you’ll be able to relaxation.

Ashina Elite – Jinsuke Saze

This man is mainly only a more durable model of the samurai you have been preventing earlier.

If you’re relentlessly aggressive, he goes down fairly rapidly certainly.

Rush in as he’s sat on the ground and provides him a style of your shinobi axe, then comply with up with loads of common slashes and Whirlwind Strikes – he ought to stagger very quickly.

You get one other Prayer Bead, together with some Eel Liver behind him, in addition to just a little tutorial on Lightning Reversals.

Genchiro

Now go and relaxation on the Shrine and prepare for a brick wall.

When you’re able to topic your self to the horror that’s coming, soar out of the open window close to the dojo and onto the roof. Turn the nook to the fitting and grapple up.

Yes, that’s the Young Lord! But there’s a sure somebody standing guard – Genchiro, the person that took your arm at the beginning of the game.

I’d suggest watching the video above of how to do that struggle, it begins at 22:16.

The first two phases are arduous as nails, however you’ll be able to ultimately study sufficient of the patterns to get by means of them. He then has a 3rd kind which it is advisable grasp as effectively.

The hardest half is the time funding to study the patterns of every kind, and cope with the crushing lack of attending to the final half solely to be sparked out immediately by one thing you’ve not seen earlier than.

One factor is significant on this struggle: realizing what to deflect and what to dodge.

Try to deflect nearly all of his common sword blows, this can assist you to keep near him and get in single counter hits to whittle down his well being bar. After it’s down far sufficient, you’ll be capable to be extra aggressive to stagger him.

You additionally have to deflect his arrow pictures. They’re very annoying, and he’ll go for them each time you retreat to heal, nevertheless, you’ll be able to interrupt them so preserve slashing in the event you see him attain for his bow mid combo.

Try to dodge his unblockable assaults the place you see a kanji, in addition to his lengthy five-hit combo. This is a really exploitable transfer that you would be able to punish closely, so keep out of its means till it attracts to a detailed then let free.

Step dodge sideways when he jumps within the air, then run the heck away from his follow-up thrust assault. It has a nasty behavior of tagging you even in the event you dodge, so be very cautious of it.

In his second well being bar, he’ll begin to combine up the soar combo with a sweep as an alternative of a thrust, however you’ll be able to keep away from this in the identical means.

Your Whirlwind Strike is an efficient solution to get in chip injury, however your foremost technique of assault ought to be to get in his face, block the essential combos, retaliate, then retreat when he does loopy stuff.

For the love of all that’s holy, don’t get panicked and grasping when he’s about to stagger. If you try to pressure it on this kind you’ll simply find yourself useless. Play sensible and preserve your head.

The third kind is a complete ‘nother kettle of fish.

He’ll begin to whip out completely mad lightning assaults with nutty vary that do ridiculous injury.

The one saving grace is that he staggers extra rapidly on this kind, and that’s what you must exploit.

Right at the beginning of the battle he’ll do a working soar in direction of you – again off and retaliate rapidly.

Keep up your technique from earlier than, get in his face, deflect and retaliate. When he jumps up surrounded by lightning, soar round to his aspect. If you’re shut in it doesn’t appear to hit you (see the vid).

Watch out for the unblockable hits on the finish of combos and, if it feels protected, try to work in a shinobi axe. This offers a ton of harm to his posture.

Once he’s damaged, the struggle is over – rejoice!

After the cutscene, stroll over to the brand new shrine that’s there and confront his reminiscence for an assault increase. Then go downstairs and discuss to the Kuro the Young Lord.

After some dialog he’ll ship you off to find Lord Isshin, which we’ll cowl within the subsequent half.