Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is available now and is by all accounts an excellent follow-up to From Software's Dark Souls franchise. But a surprising amount of players are finding that one of the first major challenges in Sekiro isn't a boss like Lady Butterfly or a pack of enemies, but looting and picking up coins instead. Picking up money, called Sen, can be somewhat unintuitive. A tutorial prompt does inform players how to do it early on, but it's easy to miss. Nevertheless, those who missed or skipped over the tutorial are still going to need to know how to loot and pick up coins.

Unlike key items, money in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is picked up through a vacuum-like system rather than picked up like a key item. It's not an automatic process, but luckily it is a simple one. It just requires that players hold down their "Interact" button. On PC the default button is "E" on the keyboard, on PS4 the button is square, and on Xbox One the button is "X." Pressing the button isn't enough. Holding down the button is how to pick up money in Sekiro.

In order to pick up the cash in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, as well as other items enemies may have dropped, the player has to bring the Wolf surprisingly close. While at first seeming like the function to loot and pick up coins covers quite a large radius, it can prove surprisingly thin in-action, making it easy to miss money on the ground unless the player is attentively looking for the glowing coins.

Money is of particular importance in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, so make sure to pick up every bit of it. Since half of the player's cash is lost with every death, saving up and spending cash efficiently is a key to success. Merchants also offer gold bags which persist through death, though they cost 10% more than they hold. Purchasing these often can result in a good supply of gold when needed, but since merchants have them in limited supply, it's best to save them for particularly expensive purchases.

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Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice players are going to need every bit of help as they make their way through the action game's violent and challenging world. Getting tripped up because of an accidentally skipped tool-tip could prove disastrous in the long run, especially when the player is so focused on bigger issues like not getting cut to bits every other minute.

Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice is available now on PC, PS4, and Xbox One.