Given a massive game across five difficulties and another special DLC mode waiting at the end of that journey, it's possible to lose months if not years on this game. Plenty of the best tracks from Nioh 1 have been preserved here with an array of great music to follow alongside, something far more blood-pumping and less melancholy than the Souls we're used to.
Making use of HDR and lush colors across a war-torn yet serene country, players will either get enraptured in the scenery or go toe to toe with enemies whose visuals are all sorts of ghastly but are supremely designed to match a variety of gameplay challenges with a variety of gorgeous animations. There's some differences between human/yokai difficult but aside from one or two frustratingly designed bosses most of them are excellent challenges, whether it's the fiery Enera and proliferating Yatsu-no-Kami all the way up to a final boss fight that simply cannot be missed. Even with the dizzying array of builds, it's very possible to end up with a weapon/armor combo that will still require intimate knowledge of an array of difficult enemies that will kill you, and a slew of bosses that start out remarkably challenging at the beginning and don't hold up.
There's some differences between human/yokai difficult but aside from one or two frustratingly designed bosses most of them are excellent … MoreĪnd incredibly difficult. There's also a Burst Counter which, similar to Bloodborne's gun parrying allows you to exploit enemy attacks and drain their Ki Adding a bunch of new weapons, customizability, and a dizzying array of skills and builds, Nioh 2 is incredibly replayable across five difficulties.Īnd incredibly difficult. The biggest changes, however, is Anima and the the Yokai Shift, which allows the player to use demon abilities like special moves inherited from enemies you kill or a powerful (but vulnerable) super mode reminiscent of DMC's Devil Trigger.
Much of the original gameplay is intact (down to the unique Ki pulse stamina system and stances), with Souls-like deliberate combat and using Amrita as experience (which can be dropped along with an equipped guardian spirit at your death). Linked to a sinister powerful yokai and a slew of historical characters, the player slices and dices their way throughout the warring states era. Set in Japan sometime before the first Nioh, the player creates a character called Hide, a half-yokai playing a role in the rise and fall of the warlord Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Nioh 2 expands upon nearly every single aspect of the first Nioh and adds a dizzying amount of content and mechanics that not only matches its Souls predecessors but exceeds them.
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