Right now it is Demon of Hatred, Charmless, ng+5

Its funny because whatever part of me that gets mad when I lose at games has just like completely burned out. Just dead-eyed starting a new run.

I do like that Sekiro has the reflections you can practice with. But charmless is quite hard, it put the challenge back in the game after basically mastering the game on charmed. Having to nail all the deflections really tightens up the game.

I had become accustomed to buffing up and using prosthetics to speed up the fights, but now I find I have to play bosses more or less straight. Fights are much longer, trading damage is a waste, prosthetics are useful but using the ceremonial dagger is really expensive and I found myself running out of flasks with most of his third phase left. Using Malcontent to finish off the last 3/4 of his third phase doesn't work either, even with buffs it takes down like only 1/4 ish of his health bar.

On ng5 I reckon his HP is at least 2x-3x what it is on ng or ng+. With Charmless? Idk how that scales maybe another 25% HP and posture. He does 25% more vit and posture, and burn status builds up extremely rapidly. I wonder if I attempted charmless on ng+ instead of ng+5 if I'd have better luck. But I'm so friggin close!