Memories are just one way you can upgrade your attack in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. You can also upgrade with the help of the Mask. Unfortunately it’s split into three pieces and requires you go for a bit of Shinobi style fishing, and the merchants are particularly picky about how many scales are needed to buy the pieces from them.

There is now a dedicated [cms-block] where you can find tips for the many bosses of the game.

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As a fan of giving games with stupid names even sillier ones, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice has me stumped. Stumped in name and stumped in-game, where a big drunk man with a sword and poison grog keeps slamming me into the ground until I’ve got a good idea how Loki felt in that scene from The Avengers.

Speedrunner “Danflesh111” is not stumped. He’s beaten the game in 52 minutes. Of course he has.

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Sekiro hurts. It is a painful, graceful game about being a sword-swinging barbarian who must learn how to dance. Even more than its Dark Souls predecessors, it forces you to play on its terms: learn the steps or die. Fools sometimes say suffering leads to wisdom or insight. Well, you won t gain enlightenment through the hundred deaths of this ninja follow-up. But you will learn how to do a lethal salsa. And when you finally stab your hairy dance partner in the eye, you will be awash in adrenaline. A deluge of battle endorphins that lasts long enough to enjoy after you ve samba d back to the rooftops to peer at the setting sun. For some of us, that’s nirvana enough.

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The highlight of any From Software game are the bosses. Some of the most tense, inventive, and downright difficult battles have come to define their body of work and Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice continues this trend – to a point. There are a surprising number of sub-bosses that are just as tricky at times.

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HDR on PC continues to be a bit of a mess these days, but provided you haven’t been put off by the astronomical prices of the [cms-block]s for HDR or, indeed, the ongoing debacle surrounding Windows 10 support for it, then the next step on your path to high dynamic range glory is to get an HDR compatible graphics card.

Below, you’ll find a complete list of all the Nvidia and AMD graphics cards that have built-in support for HDR, as well as everything you need to know about getting one that also supports Nvidia and AMD’s own HDR standards, G-Sync HDR and FreeSync 2. I’ve also put together a list of all the PC games that support HDR as well. There aren’t many of them, all told, but I’ll be updating this list with more titles as and when they come out so it’s always up to date.

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John had the presence of mind to take today off, after flying back from San Francisco on Sunday. Young Matt and I got a red eye that took off on Friday night and landed on Saturday afternoon. I didn t sleep for 30 hours, then slept for 12, was wired for the next 16, and then slept for another four. Which brings us to today, when I am writing these charts, unsure which meal I should be having next and shaking off a lingering dose of The Fear, which I get from long haul flying more than I ever did from hangovers.

With that in mind, it s me, back once again with the ill behaviour, to fill in doing the Steam Charts. I m very much flying by the seat of my pants here, so let s see what I come up with, shall we?

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It didn’t take long for tinkerers to roll up their sleeves, dive into the technoguts of Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, and reemerge saying “Oh dear oh dear, what cowboy did that?” Modders have already rejigged the guts to allow wider field-of-view options, change the framerate cap, and display correct button prompts for PlayStation controllers. ‘For funsies’ mods are also rolling, like replacing 3D models and we could soon see mods adding new enemies. We can be only days away from someone replicating the mods turning Dark Souls into a pizzahell.

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You’ve fought your way through Ashina Castle in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice. All that stands between saving the master you were sworn to protect is the kind chap who lopped off your arm. He’s just as tough as he was in the prologue, but now you can get revenge for your lost arm. He’s also the first real test of skill in the game.

Head to our previous boss guide – [cms-block] if you want to know how to defeat him quickly to get to this fight.

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At the end of the first memory you delve into in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, you’ll encounter the lord you swore to protect in a bit of a daze. This is of course a trap set by Lady Butterfly – an old woman who is a master of illusions. She may seem like quite the intimidating fight, but there are multiple things that you can do to make this fight one of the easier ones in the game.

You can also look at our [cms-block] guide for details on the previous boss fight.

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It can be a little difficult to work out just who is a main boss in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, but one of the first you’ll encounter has a massive arena all to himself. Gyoubu Owina makes quite the entrance, bounding up to you aboard a massive steed. You’ll need to deal with the quick pace of this fight and luckily there’s a few things you can do about it.

You can also look at our [cms-block] guide for details on the previous boss fight.

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