Lady Emma

This is my first playthrough of Sekiro, and I've chosen the Shura ending (unfortunate, I know). Even so, think the gameplay finally clicked for me when fought Lady Emma. know a lot of people say that the game clicked once they beat Genichiro, but even after beating him, I was still just hacking and slashing without understanding the rhythm. Maybe lI'm slow to learn the gameplay, but fighting Lady Emma was more vanilla and 'demure', I guess that's why got to understand it better.