Uploaded May 2019 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Few things turned out not so great here, but other than that I think this was mostly an improvement over my first take on this mission. There's just a few missions I wanted to redo before moving onto the no upgrades run, and this one was higher up on that list. After watching some well executed and infinitely more creative kills and taking a few notes, I eventually was able to create this, though it's not 100% what I envisioned. With more grinding I maybe could've got what I wanted, but by this point I was mostly not having as much fun with the game and was kinda burnt out and ready to take a break, and with that said there'll probably be some time before I do the rest of what I want to do in this game.
A breakdown of what didn't go according to plan/my incompetence: First off, the combo at 1:41 is supposed to start with a Royal Release, often done on his charge move at 1:34; but since there were summon swords I didn't feel safe going through with it, nor was I sure what his melee combo variant at 1:39 was going to be, so it ended up being less cool and me starting with a regular release and then doing the rest. Secondly, the Release on his combo at 2:05 is supposed to connect, but I guess I just didn't time that right. Then, there was the guard break at 2:35 that looks really bad, and it could've been easily fixed if I just turned off DT before the first guard, as I probably could've had enough DT for it to go through as a partial guard. Finally, though this is actually a much more positive thing and makes the end more interesting, deflecting the summon swords at 3:10 with Judgement was not intentional at all, he normally has less health left when activating that and had that deflecting not happened, this run would've fell flat and been one of many disappointing resets.
So yeah, a lot of things didn't go as planned, but there was the one mistake at the end that ended up working in my favor somehow. Knowing the things other players have done, this kill isn't that great, but it's still a step up from what I originally had and I'm mostly happy with it.
Few things turned out not so great here, but other than that I think this was mostly an improvement over my first take on this mission. There's just a few missions I wanted to redo before moving onto the no upgrades run, and this one was higher up on that list. After watching some well executed and infinitely more creative kills and taking a few notes, I eventually was able to create this, though it's not 100% what I envisioned. With more grinding I maybe could've got what I wanted, but by this point I was mostly not having as much fun with the game and was kinda burnt out and ready to take a break, and with that said there'll probably be some time before I do the rest of what I want to do in this game.
A breakdown of what didn't go according to plan/my incompetence: First off, the combo at 1:41 is supposed to start with a Royal Release, often done on his charge move at 1:34; but since there were summon swords I didn't feel safe going through with it, nor was I sure what his melee combo variant at 1:39 was going to be, so it ended up being less cool and me starting with a regular release and then doing the rest. Secondly, the Release on his combo at 2:05 is supposed to connect, but I guess I just didn't time that right. Then, there was the guard break at 2:35 that looks really bad, and it could've been easily fixed if I just turned off DT before the first guard, as I probably could've had enough DT for it to go through as a partial guard. Finally, though this is actually a much more positive thing and makes the end more interesting, deflecting the summon swords at 3:10 with Judgement was not intentional at all, he normally has less health left when activating that and had that deflecting not happened, this run would've fell flat and been one of many disappointing resets.
So yeah, a lot of things didn't go as planned, but there was the one mistake at the end that ended up working in my favor somehow. Knowing the things other players have done, this kill isn't that great, but it's still a step up from what I originally had and I'm mostly happy with it.
