Trivia / Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

• Acting for Two: In the English dub, Amber Hood voices both Kuro and the Divine Child of Rejuvenation.
• Divorced Installment: The game was initially planned to be a new Tenchu title, but due to the franchise having had many developers and to avoid imitation, the game became a Spiritual Successor instead.
• Dueling Games:
  • With Nioh 2, another Nintendo Hard action game set in feudal Japan. Fitting, considering the original Nioh was inspired by the Souls series.
  • Also with Ghost of Tsushima, which had its gameplay revealed on the same day as Nioh 2 announcement.
• Throw It In!: The subtitle, Shadows Die Twice, was only meant as a Tag Line for the teaser trailer. Activision would then decide to incorporate it into the final title of the game.
• What Could Have Been:
  • The system for curing Dragonrot-infected NPCs was going to be a bit more involved. Instead of Emma making your first Dragon's Blood Droplet and the Recovery Charm, she was to make actual pills called "Dragonrot Pellets" that would cure it. Said pills were also supposed to be made via spending Wolf's Resurrective Power and given to the infected in-person, rather than praying with the Charm at a Sculptor's Statue. The mechanic was changed late enough that there's still dialogue strings for it in the game's code, although the item itself isn't there.
  • People who hacked the game to make enemies fight one another found out they can die to Shichimen Warrior and Headless Ape's Terror attacks. Even the bosses merely take very long to die this way. Armored Warrior, an enemy who can only be killed in a very specific way in the game proper, even has a different dead animation when dying of Terror. This all suggests at some point an option to give Sekiro an ability to inflict Terror himself was considered and then dropped.
• Working Title: During development, it was simply known as "Project Ninja."

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