At that point, the XP threshold was around 90,000 to the next point, growing by about 1 or 2,000 for each new one I earned. RIDICULOUS. I actually ended up with some points left over, which was fine.

One of their team members, Nathan, recently went for the platinum in Sekiro, which you can check out in this video here.

I had been debating doing the same, and finally decided to go for it; I knew I was going to keep playing the game anyway, as I was having so much fun with it, so I figured I would put on my trophy hunter hat and go for that 100 completion.

Ive decided to do a short write up on the journey, and the trophies I picked up last.

The Lapis from the Demon of Hatred boss fight was definitely the most aggravating to get, as that boss is no cake walk.

I ended the game with the Dragons Homecoming (Return) option, as I hadnt done that one yet.

By this point, I had gotten every ending (one trophy each) aside from the bad Shura ending.

This one has a different final boss, and essentially ends the game much earlier than it would otherwise.

I needed the trophy for this Shura ending boss to unlock the Man Without Equal trophy.

Emma (the so-called Gentle Blade) who is effectively the first phase, was a super difficult boss, much harder than fighting Genichiro in the other endings.

Her grab attack in particular has a stupid amount of range, and she can move extremely quickly.

Learning her moveset and being able to comfortably defeat her alone took me about ten tries.

The first phase wasnt too much of an issue, but the second phase was a nightmare.

Isshin starts to incorporate fire into his attacks, and many of them are extremely hard to dodge and do insane amounts of damage.

I found this version of Isshin much harder than the Sword Saint (though obviously Im more familiar with that one) and was definitely breathing a sigh of relief when I beat him the final boss I needed.

The skill tree system in Sekiro is based on XP which you get from defeating enemies and bosses: this fills your XP bar.

Once the threshold for the XP bar is met, you bank a skill point.

However, there is a catch every time you purchase a skill (each has a different price, the better skills are more expensive) the XP threshold to the next point goes up.

The fewer skills you have, the less the threshold increases each time you bank a point.

In my original playthrough of the game, I needed about 35 40 skill points still, and the amount I need to fill the XP bar was around 50,000, and increasing by a large margin every time I banked a new point.

For some context, the end game enemies will give you around 1,000 XP each (depending on the NG cycle).

I finished in NG3 buying only Mikiri Counter, Ichimonji (in order to access the following two skills) and AscendingDescending Carp.

You need 125 skill points for every skill in the game, and holy shit the grind was real.

I ended up running the Ashina Outskirts Stairway route for about 3 or 4 hours total (not in one sitting I would have gone mental) in order to get from around 90 points banked (over the course of my 3 playthroughs), to the 125 I needed.

At that point, the XP threshold was around 90,000 to the next point, growing by about 1 or 2,000 for each new one I earned.

RIDICULOUS. I actually ended up with some points left over, which was fine.

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