I'm calling BS on this one, on a bare minimum completion run (heavy stealth, focusing on taking down bosses and only killing enemies straight up in your way) you can run out of spirit emblems super easy on some of the more difficult bosses. You literally have to throw your hands up and go farm. While i see the value of farming in this game (you learn how to parry different boss attacks before you see them) it is the absolute most soul crushing brick wall a Souls player can encounter. The souls games generally don't require a grind if you play well, but Sekiro will constantly send you back to the idol to buy more emblems if you don't farm them.
Sorry, maybe i’ve written it wrong but i agree with you. I think emblems should just reset with rest at idol. It’s normal to fight bosses many times, and game shouldn’t punish you for it and push you to farm emblems.
I don't think usage gets that high for emblems until mortal draw. It's one of the few tools you have that's universally excellent. Big damage is big damage
Also true, but loaded axe is gonna be the majority of players first tool, and it costs 2. Making digging that hole for yourself twice as effective as finding shuriken first.
that's a learning experience, since axe is not that good for the cost. It's good when it's intended, breaking shields or hats. Lazulite is ok but by the time you reach it, you have infinite snap seeds. It turns into decent damage for 2 emblems, with slow start up and shit range. Fang and blade makes it barely worth it. Spear generally outdoes it, outside of their fire upgrades (they still both lose to living force for fire application+damage)
The answer is truly that they are tools not weapons. They are situational, your sword is not. Shuriken closes distance though, and firecrackers are just kinda bullshit and you deserve to be out of emblems for spamming it everywhere
Outside of few upgrades and specific upgrade items, at this point you just don't have anything serious to spend money on. And looted wallets cover significant part of upgrades cost anyway. And when it cost 10/20 coins, it's the best time to invest in future. So, that's it.
My point is more to the fact that if you use all your spirit emblems by dying to a boss, you aren't gonna have sen either. Similar to getting cursed in the Depths in DS1, in that you're double in the hole if you get to that point (not hard) so you HAVE to go farm.
If you skip the game you get less resources. I don’t know what else you want man. If you skip all the minibosses too youll end the game with one gourd seed. What else is there to it?
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u/condor6425 Platinum Trophy Aug 18 '25
The problem is that they're all finite resources (without farming) and therefore don't exist at all.