8 Precise Video Game Moments You Knew You Were Utterly Screwed
3. Realising The "Lone" Shadow Vilehand Is Anything But - Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice
As before mentioned, FromSoftware titles are pretty much the be-all and end all of your hopes and dreams, routinely smashing your body and pride to pieces with cruel tricks and a tonne of PVP agony.
Sekiro: Shadows Die twice, not wanting to be left out of the action presented multiple moments where unsuspecting players could be turned into kebab meat, but nothing was as big a "GOTCHA" moment as when Wolf came up against Lone Shadow Vilehand in Ashina Castle.
This mini-boss fight begins with the player approaching Vilehand from behind as he prays at an altar, and you might have actually put the controller down to rub your hands with glee at this setup. An unsuspecting figure in a game where a single backstab can take off a full bar of health? Don't mind if I do!
Yet as the player approaches this supposedly "Lone" figure, they might suddenly find their own health bar under assault, as the bastard isn't actually alone at all! Standing in the corner is another less than friendly soul who will play the same trick on you that you were trying to enact, and as the blade struck home totalling your HP, you knew you'd not just been screwed, but you'd been laughed at as well.