THIS METHOD, WHILE NOT THE BEST, WORKS BUT IT REQUIRES 100 ATTENTIVENESS AND 'WAKEFULNESS' WHICH WAS NOT WHAT I HAD AT THIS MOMENT!!br ALAS, THE END TO THIS PRETTY RE RDED GAME - IT'S GOING TO BE EXPONENTIALLY DIFFICULT IF YOU KINDA BULLSH TTED YOUR WAY THROUGH, FOR EXAMPLE IN MY CASE, I NEVER EVEN LEARNED HOW TO BASIC MIKIRI COUNTER (I HAD TO LEARN IT HERE) WHICH MADE THE GENCHIRO BATTLE NEEDLESSLY MUCH MORE DIFFICULT THAN IT NEEDED TO BE!br I DID SEE ONE METHOD THAT WAS A SUPERIOR METHOD OF CHEESING THAN MINE, HOWEVER FOR GENCHIRO I WOULD NOT ADVISE TRYING TO DISTANCE AWAY TO BAIT THE UNBLOCKABLE ATTACK - I ALREADY TRIED THAT AND IT IS NOT EASY TO CALCULATE THE PROPER DISTANCE TO LAND AN ATTACK SO IT'S BETTER TO DO A COMBINATION OF KEEPING DISTANCE AND MIKIRI (AND ATTACK) AND TRYING TO COMBO THROUGH!br SOMEHOW I DIDN'T REALIZE UNTIL THE ENDPOINT THAT THERE WAS A SKILL TO INCREASE THE ABILITY METER SO I HAD TO GRIND FOR IT!br COMPLETED NG+ THE START OF WHICH I THOUGHT IT WAS POSSIBLE TO DO ALL OF THESE IN THAT PLAYTHROUGH: USE EXP LVLS TO ENHANCE ATTACK POWER BATTLE AND KILL EMMA & ISSHIN BATTLE AND KILL DEMON OF HATRED THE HIDDEN MINIBOSS AT THE ESTATE HIDDEN OWL BOSS AT ESTATE KILL THE REAL FINAL BOSS USING THE UMBRELLA CHEESE TECHNIQUE- HOWEVER SOME OF THOSE ARE MUTUALLY EXCLUSIVE SO IT WOULD REQUIRE A 3RD PLAYTHROUGH WHICH I MUST ADMIT AS CRAPPY AS THIS GAME IS I WAS TEMPTED TO, BUT NAHH! br NG+ IS ALWAYS AN 'EXTRA CREDIT' WAY OF BOOSTING SCORE BUT THE FLAWS I POINTED OUT WERE JUST TOO MUCH SO NO BUMP! 7.210 FINALbr FINAL SCORE: 7.210br THIS WAS NOT THE FINEST HOUR FOR FROMSOFTWARE, FOR ME TO PUT IT DIPLOMATICALLY (ONE THING - AND I'M TRYING TO CONTROL BECAUSE shck == ME AND PEOPLE SEE shck BUT ANYWAY- ONE ADVANTAGE ULTRA SELF MADE BILLIONAIRES LIKE ME HAVE IN LIFE IS I CAN JUST TELL IT STRAIGHT BECAUSE FOR 99.99ers THERE ARE HARD CONSEQUENCES WHEREAS FOR ME I'M FIRST AND FOREMOST AN ANIMAL WILDLIFE EXPERT SO, YOU KNOW- ANYWAY THIS ISN'T THE FORUM FOR ALL THIS-)br WHERE WAS I-br I'M WILLING TO OVERLOOK THIS DEBACLE OF A GAME ESP GIVEN FROMSOFTWARES MASTERPIECES THAT THEY'VE ONLY PRODUCED- THEY HAD BETTER DITCH SEKIRO LIKE THE PLAGUE AND GET BACK TO SOULSBORNE!!!br 7.