I cheesed the demon of hatred but honestly wasn't even fun to fight. Game got easier when a user here suggested not to worry and suddenly i breezed through all the content.
Going into each fight with the mindset of doing it for practice made everything easier for some reason.
I think fromsoftware owns the rights to Tenchu, so if (hopefully when) they bring those back, sekiro-esque swordplay would have a good place there, albeit as a secondary to the stealth gameplay.
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