![]() Soul Cores allow players to use yōkai abilities once the cores are purified by visiting a shrine. When players defeat a hostile yōkai, some of them may drop a "Soul Core". Players are equipped with a variety of weapons such as odachi and kusarigama, and earn new skills and special abilities as they progress in the game. Players can create their own playable character, who was a yōkai spirit. Similar to its predecessor, Nioh 2 is an action role-playing game. The game received mostly positive reviews and sold 2.5 million units by February 2022. ![]() Versions for PlayStation 5 and Windows titled Nioh 2: Complete Edition featuring all the previous downloadable content were released on February 5, 2021, by Koei Tecmo. It is both a prequel and sequel to Nioh (2017). It was published by Koei Tecmo in Japan and Sony Interactive Entertainment worldwide on March 13, 2020. Not enough to spoil the fantastic game it provides a conclusion to, but as a conclusion it leaves something to be desired.Nioh 2 is an action role-playing video game developed by Team Ninja for the PlayStation 4. Its story is the weakest of the three and I’m not one for duels (for the most part) and boss gauntlets, so what good there is here is unfortunately outweighed by the rest. There are a few new enemy types, two of which have cool designs but one, a sort of nightmarish monster bird thing is a right pain in the arse to fight, and the other a load of flesh blobs meshed together with needles, unfortunately got lost in the shuffle to the point that I didn’t even realise I’d killed one the first time, its soul core being the only evidence I’d encountered it.įirst Samurai isn’t a failure or anything, but I didn’t enjoy it as much as the other two pieces of this trilogy. There are a couple of exploration based missions and they’re both good, so it’s not all bad. All in all it feels anticlimatic to me.Īfter beating the main story the DLC falls back on boss gauntlets and duels to fill out the sidequests, something I personally don’t enjoy nearly as much as exploring new areas or redesigned existing ones, which the previous DLC did well. You beat him and that’s it Hide vanquishes him forever and Suzuka says that she is the titular First Samurai, or at least the first Samurai ideal that subsequent generations will strive to live up to. Unforunately he isn’t nearly cool enough to warrant the name or description, not even close. His final form is literally named “Nightmare Bringer”, one the Yokai directory describes as “One of the most horrifying demons to have ever existed on this plane”. The second is a daunting landscape partly made of giant rib cages, with a red sky and a final descent to where Otakemaru awaits for the final showdown. Fortunately the two main story missions are both good in terms of design and aesthetics: the first starts in the battered village Otakemaru tore through, then transitions into bright, colorful foliage and water framed by huge trees and greenery. ![]() I barely cared about him to begin with his design is mediocre, especially when compared to some of the other Yokai in the game, and his role in the story wasn’t as impactful as Tokichiro (I know he was possessing him but even so). Thing is, I don’t care about Otakemaru any more the game wrapped up everything with him, and to have him be the final objective again feels like a wasted opportunity to me. Presumably because she’s gone back in time to kill him she no longer ever had that final boss fight with him? I don’t know, the game doesn’t raise these questions. How she does that when she has to fight him at a later time isn’t explained. Hide arrives, fights Otakemaru until Suzuka intervenes, fights a seemingly unrelated second boss then tracks down Otakemaru and puts him down for good. Even by the standards set by the previous DLC, this is short and light on story. Hide arrives post-moiduh and teams up with Otakemaru’s sister Suzuka, an alliance that’s short lived due to her being physically weakened. If you don’t remember what went down: Otakemaru lived in harmony with humans, then one day they all had a barney and he slotted them all. ![]() Whereas Tengu’s Disciple and Darkness in the Capital focused on Hide hanging out with historical wielders of her Spirit Stone blade, this one wraps things up by focusing on the main game’s final boss Otakemaru starting with the origin story relayed at the beginning of the story. After two good pieces of DLC, this is it: the end of Nioh 2. ![]()
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