Sekiro - Sword Saint Isshin Phase 2 OST 10 mintues 

Glock saint isshin

"Parry this, you filthy casual"

“close enough”

gives me conniptions

I mean it was just a random spear he pulled out of nowhere

@@Anonymous-73 General Tamura's, Gyoubu Oniwa's.

I feel like the flutes are purposely weak and faltering, compared to how loud and triumphant the rest of the song is, as symbolism to how weak and faltering Ashina is, both the town and the man himself.

@@DivineBanana Exactly and i like how for his theme it represents that he was a legendary sword saint that for us the players have him building up too thats what makes him both scary yet amazing too fight him. His by far one of the best final bosses because this boss contains mastery that other games barely do. And you’re right the music makes it more triumphant and the flute weaker.

@@diamonddelu agreed, one of the best, if not THE best final boss in video game History.

Wait, Isshin was using the Mortal Blade? It looked like his usual katana.

@@enjoyer2227 he grabs The Mortal blade from genichiro when he dies.

@A rock he uses The dark mortal blade, which is an Odachi.

I know this comment is months old and is a general idea of the fight. But for the people that are actually wondering the Genichiro of this fight bares more similarities to Way of Tomoe than armored Genichiro, like both Lightning and mortal blade Genichiro use a mikiri-able attack after finishing their longest sword combo and you deflect the last attack. Also both of this Genichiro will do another mikiri-able attack of you give them distance. Finally the spear isn’t any spear, it’s the Spear of General Tamura, that Isshin gives to Gyobu Oniwa (horse guy boss) and finally Isshin pulls it from the ground (great beyond) for the 2 last phases

Ishin Phase 3 is just lightning attacks

And then he pulled the glock

Phase 3 is the easiest one tho, he kinda just kills himself

I think the dude is just so good he's catching the lightning rather than bringing it to him like Genichiro

AFAIK the way of tomoe is the unnatural way to use lightning I think Geni describes it as "unholy", Tomoe basically creates the lightnings on his weapon and then throws them, which would be really dangerous, explaining why geni is full of scars and burns. On the other hand, Isshin can percieve when and where lightning will strike, then jump, offer his spear as a landing spot and throw the lightning towards the enemy. He is just that good, and it would be the point at which sekiro could eventually get to, either way, it's based on luck whether or not he gets the lightnings he needs or not. Basically, (canonically) Isshin spends his whole second phase waiting for lightning, but it just never comes. He already has all that he needs, the spear and the storm, but doesn't get lucky and lightning only comes one deathblow later.

The only reason he loses is because Sekiro is immortal too and has the red mortal blade. Isshin has the black one but he doesnt decides to use it for some reason.

He did hesitate using it on phase 1

@@excalibur2596 he just forgot about the gun on phase 1, but later he remembered xD

To be fair, in the fight with him in the tower he took 2 deathblows, shed his armor and could take one more. So at peak Genichiro is 3 while peak Isshin is also 3. Even.

Monarch BLUE well that’s one fight, this is another, plus like I said genichiros younger so I’d really expect isshin to be weaker but ig his experience in battle and trained him to withstand more

Isshin is actually immortal when he is brought back by genichiro so I dont think he is going to be hurt too bad.

Saint Sword Isshin is Immortal and is in peak condition. Old Isshin on the other hand... I wish there was an Easter egg of making the fight last long and he dies of old age 🤣🤣

@@josetomascamposrobledano4618 lol that would be funny as hell

Shit was wild I'm not gonna hold you

It was so crazy I was genuinely afraid isshin took me a week to beat, and in that week, I went to sleep at 5 AM every night trying to defeat him, and then eventually I did..

You don't understand. You can use anything as a sword if you are gud enough