{"id":64013,"date":"2026-03-26T02:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-03-25T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=64013"},"modified":"2026-03-25T15:35:02","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T06:35:02","slug":"sekiro-player-with-inner-father-issues-has-been-defeating-the-boss-for-almost-1400-consecutive-days-and-shows-no-signs-of-stopping-no-one-knows-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/sekiro-player-with-inner-father-issues-has-been-defeating-the-boss-for-almost-1400-consecutive-days-and-shows-no-signs-of-stopping-no-one-knows-why\/","title":{"rendered":"Sekiro\u00a0player with Inner Father issues has been defeating the boss for almost 1,400 consecutive days\u00a0and shows no signs of stopping. No one knows why\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A Japanese YouTuber&nbsp;called&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@uniyasumi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Uni Yasumi<\/a>&nbsp;has gone viral&nbsp;after people realized&nbsp;they\u2019ve&nbsp;been&nbsp;locking horns with&nbsp;<strong>Sekiro: Shadows Die<\/strong>&nbsp;<strong>Twice<\/strong>&nbsp;boss&nbsp;Inner Father for almost 1,400 consecutive days now.&nbsp;Starting out their \u201cLet\u2019s&nbsp;Beat Inner Father&nbsp;Every&nbsp;Day\u201d series&nbsp;back in April&nbsp;2022,&nbsp;Uni Yasumi is now on Day 1399&nbsp;of&nbsp;their&nbsp;journey, with&nbsp;seemingly no&nbsp;signs of stopping&nbsp;(as spotted by&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.denfaminicogamer.jp\/news\/260325p\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Denfaminicogamer<\/a>).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Inner Father&nbsp;is&nbsp;an&nbsp;extra boss&nbsp;available in&nbsp;Sekiro\u2019s&nbsp;\u201cGauntlets of&nbsp;Strength\u201d&nbsp;single-life&nbsp;challenge&nbsp;mode,&nbsp;which was released post-launch to give players an even tougher challenge than what the already punishing&nbsp;game&nbsp;has to offer.&nbsp;Considered by many to be one of the game\u2019s most difficult enemies, Inner Father is&nbsp;a&nbsp;more vicious version of the base game\u2019s Owl (Father).&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"\u6bce\u65e5\u5012\u305d\u3046\u5fc3\u4e2d\u306e\u7fa9\u7236 1399\u65e5\u76ee\" width=\"1160\" height=\"653\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZIBSBTlpLX0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Let&#8217;s Beat Inner Father Every Day &#8211; Day 1399<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>As to why Uni Yasumi has sworn to cut\u00a0down\u00a0this enemy every single day,\u00a0it\u2019s\u00a0a mystery. Their\u00a0playthroughs\u00a0have no commentary\u00a0or descriptions, and even the <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/5rzi7uR7Tlw?si=CtHn2a4zGXcqqMu_\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">very first video\u00a0in the series<\/a>\u00a0doesn\u2019t\u00a0offer any hints into the cause of Uni Yasumi obsession.\u00a0It would be natural to imagine that their goal was to keep fighting the boss until they improved their skills, but Uni Yasumi\u2019s gameplay has been\u00a0pretty\u00a0extraordinary\u00a0since day one.\u00a0Naturally, their movements and parry timings in recent videos\u00a0show that they have the Inner Father\u2019s attack patterns\u00a0pretty much engraved\u00a0into their DNA (they can wrap\u00a0up the fight\u00a0in about 3 minutes), but even the\u00a0early videos are impressive.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Additionally, judging by the&nbsp;\u201c\u96e3\u201d&nbsp;mark below Uni Yasumi\u2019s health bar,&nbsp;they\u2019ve&nbsp;also been playing Charmless&nbsp;(No Kuro\u2019s Charm)&nbsp;this whole time, making things&nbsp;significantly&nbsp;harder (enemy attacks are buffed and you get chip damage if you&nbsp;block or&nbsp;don\u2019t&nbsp;parry&nbsp;perfectly).&nbsp;While their channel is still small at about 780 subscribers, Uni Yasumi has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/sorawotobitai4\/status\/2036369284402913351?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">risen to fame on X in the past few days<\/a>, with Japanese FromSoftware fans expressing equal parts wonder and fear.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Related:&nbsp;<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/20231129-23463\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>From Dark Souls III to&nbsp;Sekiro&nbsp;to Bloodborne, which&nbsp;SoulsBorne&nbsp;boss has left the most players broken? We analyzed trophy data to find out<\/strong><\/a><strong><\/strong>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Japanese player on YouTube has been uploading videos of themselves beating Sekiro&#8217;s Inner Father every day since April 2022.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":55,"featured_media":64015,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-64013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-japan-related-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sekiro\u00a0player with Inner Father issues has been defeating the boss for almost 1,400 consecutive days\u00a0and shows no signs of stopping. 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