Takezo is artificially hard and I hate him for it

Im already aware Im going to get downvoted to hell with this one but here we go. tldr at the end

This boss fight is cheap and it ignores the rules of the game to feel hard.

Takezo has pretty much no startup animation on the majority of his attacks (specially the unblockables) which translates to most his attacks being instant, this would be ok if you could just hold block but you can’t

he doesn’t get stun locked if you attack him, meaning he will ignore your attack on contact and hit you without being interrupted while still interrupting your attack like you it was from neutral (again, bo startup animation at all)

He will outright ignore a perfect dodge and overrule your attack (idk if this is a bug or not but 5/10 times I will perfect dodge him, press the attack button and he will somehow recover in time and hit me before I hit him (while the camera is still in slow motion)

This one is a feeling thing, but I think his perfect parry window is even shorter than normal, Im using the parry charm + undying armor combo and I barely getting normal parries let alone perfect ones

He has no recovery frames, now this is the worst case for me because Im very used to the rules of recovery frames in the world of any other kind of game that has boss fights. That attack where he does a red glint attack into an instant disarming attack, he lunges in the air at the end then fucking throws another red glint attack before he even lands on the ground (and obviously hits me before I hit him)

On top of all that he 2 hit kills you early on in the fight and then once the frost comes in any hit is an instant death vs a boss that ignores every fundamental rule the game throws at you

I managed to beat him after a couple of hours by “cheesing” him in return which means I just kept a sweet spot distance and just tried to perfect parry the first hit of his combo > do the attack punish and back to blocking because if you try to do a 2nd swing he starts to pull the bs I just talked about.

Anyway end of rant, this boss had the same difficulty a souls final boss gave me but none of the gratification due to the things mentioned. (The rest of the game is still a 20/10 though, just this one minor thing that pissed me off)

TLDR: Takezo doesn’t follow the game’s rules, not even the other bosses rules and is just artificially difficult because every game needs a near impossible boss to clip farm and get people talking on the internet ig