What is the highest difficulty level of "Sekiro" you know?

In 2019, Hidetaka Miyazaki launched the action game "Sekiro". With players rattling and dying, this game successfully won the TGA Game of the Year Award that year, even though most gamers didn't even play it for a week. After clearing the level, I was persuaded to quit during the Madam Butterfly or Red Ghost stages.

So, if Yun Yuji tells you that there is such a player who has cleared the eight-week dual-difficulty "Sekiro" in one life with his initial health and attack, what would you think?

"Super Ninja" Wolf

In the past few years since the launch of "Sekiro", in addition to various speed runs, single-handed playthroughs, dance mat playthroughs, foot playthroughs, and even blindfolded playthroughs have appeared. It seems that the difficulty of the game itself is no longer enough to satisfy players' masochistic desires. It has been nearly 4 years since the game was released, and high-end players have exhausted their exploration of the game’s difficulty.

But, is this really the case?

First of all, you must understand that "Sekiro" itself does not have difficulty options. If there is, then one week can barely be regarded as an "easy mode."

As the level of the enemy increases, the enemy's blood volume, torso value, and attack power will also increase, and the player's strength will also be weakened. When reaching the cap of 8 rounds, the enemy's health and torso value can be increased to 1.5 times, the attack power can be increased by 1.1 times, and the player's toughness will be reduced to 0.6.

This is not over yet, the game also has two ways to increase difficulty: crossing spells and ringing bells.

At the beginning of the new game, the player hands the amulet to Kuro, and then when he blocks the enemy's attack, he must rebound it perfectly, otherwise he will be injured even if he blocks the attack. In addition, the enemy's damage and health torso value will be further increased, reaching a maximum of 1.9 times in 8 weeks. Ringing the bell at Xianfeng Temple will also further increase the enemy's value, allowing the game difficulty to enter the next stage in advance.

The eighth game of Double Dilemma is a world that has never been reached for most players.

Not only that, in the game, players can increase the character's blood volume and attack by consuming prayer beads and battle memories. The initial blood volume is 10 points, which can be raised to a maximum of 20, and the initial attack power is 1 point, which can be raised to a maximum of 99.

The blood volume is linked to the torso value. If the player faces the boss of the 8th week with the initial state of 10 health + 1 attack, and the rebound is not perfect, one blow to the boss will fill the torso, two blows will break the defense, and the third blow will be destroyed. Send him away, and even if the player faces the first elite monster samurai general Kawarada Naomori, with constant attacks and perfect blocks, it will still take more than a minute and nearly 100 knives to knock out a tube of blood.

Double difficulty 8 weeks plus 10+1 to clear all bosses who return to normal (the most number of bosses who return to normal), this is the highest difficulty level that most gamers can think of for "Sekiro" without using mods.

However, because the difficulty of this challenge is so high, players need to ensure a nearly 100% success rate in rebounding, seeing through, and dodging during the game. There is almost no error tolerance. Therefore, although the game has been released for many years, and some high-level players have uploaded videos of eight-week double-difficulty 10+1 bosses without damage, no one has ever been able to complete the game in one life.

Until February 12, two days before Valentine's Day in 2023, Ruizhan UP "Xiaotiantian Orange Juice" uploaded "Unprecedented, I hope there will be others in the future!" ! The highest difficulty of Sekiro, 160 rounds, 10+1 returns to normal, kills all BOSS with one life for the first time in the world! "video.

There is no one before, and there may not be anyone in the future.

Although the video title indicates 160 rounds, the value of the game is capped at eight rounds. The reason why it is written as 160 rounds, according to the introduction, is because UP has really cleared the level 160 times.

This video is 3 hours, 39 minutes and 04 seconds long. For those "old wolves" who are used to watching speedruns that take dozens of minutes, this length seems a bit long.

However, judging from Yun Youji's viewing experience, although each boss battle can be described as scraping, the three-hour process is not boring.

Use the wolf's initial panel to challenge eight enemies. The attack can basically be regarded as scraping. In order to increase the damage, UP must make use of props such as fire blowers and rust pills that can buff the enemy. Especially rust pills, which can be used during attacks. Perform dodge actions at the same time, and the moves are very gorgeous.

And because UP is already familiar with the boss's moves and moves, in order to reduce the clearance time and increase the success rate of challenges, UP's playing style has been optimized to the extreme, so the battle process is very compact and there is no sense of procrastination.

Including elite monsters with no battle memory, there are as many as 29 boss battles in the video. Under the restriction of 10+1 double difficulty in eight rounds, each battle is an extreme challenge to the operation and psychological quality.

Elder Centipede, who only needs a mindless bounce in the first game, can fill up the player's posture gauge with just one move at this time, while UP, who is half-healthy on sugar and has to start all over again if he makes a mistake, can fill up the player's posture gauge with just one move. It perfectly deflected nearly two hundred attacks in a row.

The father-in-law who once pressed Yun Youji to the ground and rubbed her for more than five hours. His insidious moves were all resolved by UP head-on. The skills displayed in the process were amazing, including the use of side… To deal with the stepfather's jump slash after the two darts by cutting instead of blocking or dodging was an operation that Yun Youji had never imagined before.

The most exaggerated thing is that when defeating the second to last boss Genichiro Ashina, UP was able to calm down and perfectly deflect a complete flying boat!

The penultimate sword of this move only has a fault tolerance rate of 3 frames. It is very difficult. Once a mistake is made, all the previous three hours will be wasted. Dare to show such a dangerous operation when the challenge is about to succeed, which itself requires extraordinary courage.

In fact, almost every boss battle in this video is exciting enough to be cut out and uploaded to a video website, because the difficulty of almost every battle would be enough for an ordinary player like Yun Yuji who has already cleared the level, and it would not take dozens of hours. It will definitely come out.

Although this video is not perfect, for example, when facing the Seven Guns, because one push did not rebound perfectly, UP was instantly filled with torso value and lost 60% of his health. In order to suppress Madam Butterfly, he also got hit a few times. Flying butterfly.

But people are not machines after all. The three-hour battle, the operation in this video, looking at the "Sekiro" community, is already the top existence. Among the original "Sekiro" videos known on the entire network, this video Undoubtedly the most valuable one.

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Before seeing this video, Yun Youji did not expect that in 2023, "Elden Ring" has been released, and there will be people who specialize in "Sekiro", and this is almost impossible to realize among countless players' concepts. challenges.

In fact, including UP himself, he once thought that it was impossible to clear Sekiro, the most difficult game with the lowest character attributes, in one life. This idea really started to appear when he played Shura with one life in the 50th game.

From the one-life Shura to the dual-difficulty 10+1 one-life all-boss is a completely different concept. Because this challenge was too difficult, UP did not immediately start this challenge. It was not until he cleared the eight-week difficulty level 50 times that he started to really Work towards this goal.

However, even for a master like UP who has cleared hundreds of levels, the practice process is still full of ups and downs. Condition, feel, and luck are all decisive factors for the success of the challenge, especially the perfect rebound and flying across the pontoon, which doubles the difficulty of this challenge.

But UP did it. From 100 games to 160 games, from impossible to possible. It’s hard to imagine how much love and persistence a player must have to succeed in the game "Sekiro" after so many failures. It has achieved this achievement that has never been achieved before without any popularity.

It's embarrassing to say that as a loyal fan of the Soul game, Yun Youji thought that she was already a more patient and hard-core player who could spend several hours practicing and challenging a boss. However, compared with this UP Compared to that, that bit of persistence pales in comparison and is not worth mentioning.

"If someone must complete this matter, then let me do it!" This sentence from the video introduction is really exciting to read. Maybe UP just doesn't want to leave any regrets in his Sekiro gaming career, but to be lucky enough to see such wonderful operations, that's not the case for countless Sekiro players!