A shame that only eight months or so past the PlayStation 4 release that the PC port is at times, marred by technical issues. Rounding out the trifecta of excellence is a wonderful story following William, a conscripted pirate on the hunt for Amrita, a golden stone that is found primarily in Japan, and is a dark yet strangely serene experience. Though well-received on PlayStation 4 when it launched in early 2017, as the year wore on it was increasingly more difficult to hear about the beloved grimdark action-RPG set in an alternate of the late Sengoku Period in Japan (1460’s to about 1610) and features stunning level design, weapon and armor art straight out of the Azuchi-Momoyama period. There are people who are going to farm for the perfect gear once they hit max level, but I wondered, what’s the point? This isn’t an MMORPG where you are gear gated for content or a dungeon-looter where the point of the game is to find new loot that completely changes the way you play.For all of the success of KOEI TECMO and Team NINJA’s Nioh it seems too often that it is brushed aside as “Dark Souls with Samurai” which is a criminal understatement given how good Nioh is. But with the game being so skill-based you don’t need to min-max your gear to beat it, as long as you have decent items and a solid understanding of the combat. Now, I get that considering optimal gear is more of an end-game thing, and it does indeed become more relevant there. Why spend time finding the perfect item when you are just going to level passed it? With it being completely luck dependent, I found that I always just ended up defaulting to the highest level gear I had in my inventory. The first problem with the random gear in the game is that there are simply way too many drops with too many varieties of modifiers to give players any sort of gratifying choice for the amount of time spent in the inventory, especially early on in the game. The stats on gear have not changed much from the original, which was a sort of a downer for me. With separate constellations for each weapon, magic, and discipline, the options for builds are simply dizzying to think about.
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With each node providing new moves and interesting gameplay improvements, they managed to make each individual upgrade feel impactful. However, once you take a closer look, it’s quite intuitive. Unlike the first’s simple skill tree, Nioh 2 features a skill constellation-a web of interlocking nodes that are both visually impressive and terrifying. Additionally, since you can only have two separate abilities equipped at a time, this encourages yet more player decision making. Although Nioh 2 isn’t much different in that regard, the addition of Yokai skills lets you use the demonic side without fully committing to the transformation. One of the lackluster components of the spirits in the previous game was how you barely got to use the mechanic due to the fact that it took a while to build it up.
There are also three different forms you can turn into which offer a nice bit of variety. A complete transformation that changes your moveset and playstyle, it is as fun to use as it is to look at. Previously, activating your guardian spirit just made your sword glow and improved your abilities, but now, you turn into a badass Yokai instead. First, I’ll tackle the most impressive change, the guardian spirits system which received the Yokai transformation ability. Like the original, Nioh is back with guardian spirits, skill trees and random gears with stats.
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