Nioh 2 - Before You Buy

Nioh 2 (PS4) sets out to improve upon the original surprise hit souls-like game. How is it? Let's talk.

[zions]

PRO TIP - If you go to the options menu you can turn off item pickup under a certain rarity. You can choose the rarity as well (basically set it to blue or purple so that the option doesn't even show up to pick up anything lower in rarity, for instance). This basically FIXES inventory management, and lowers the constant flow of loot you don't want or need.

[pinkhairvulcanus]

Good news. There's an action game after character creation.

[saishetheberzerker]

Fun fact: there's a purpose behind the "difficulty" rating of your phantoms. The game actually tracks your playstyle - how often you're in a certain stance, what spells you use, etc. The higher their difficulty the better their AI.

[JustAName-itqp]

*Approaching April

Wallet: Why do I hear boss music?

[larrygod]

1 hour just on the character creator alone.

[Need_A_New_Game]

If you own the first nioh select "boons" at a shrine and you'll get a William skin

[punani_slayer]

The whole game can be played co-op too so that's pretty cool

[hadifelani]

What I really love about Nioh2 is that we can change the appearance of our armors and weapons to suit our preferences regardless the actual look or the type of said equipments, we can mix & match the cosmetic look of our character while still be able to use the armor we need for our intended build. That is something a *LOT* of similar games with RPG elements don't really give us the option/freedom to do so.

The character customisation in Nioh2 is better than many similar games with RPG element, not many RPG games allows you to change the visual appearance of your equipments. Most of the time they left you stuck with your character's build. Nioh2 easily lets you change the look of your let's say the tanky build of Axe wielder that's obviously using heavy armors to look as some barbarian with cloth armor. We can also change the look of our let's say blessed weapon into a cursed weapon of the same type.

To be honest, this is one of the most important things to keep you out from boredom while playing this game since it's quite hard and the learning curve is a bit steep for beginners. I've played over 200 hours across 2021 and spread evenly on all weapon types available to this game. Personally I liked Kusarigama, Switchglaive, and Dualswords build the most, while having Splitstaff and Axe as the least preferrable choices of main weapon.

I still remember the time when I was a complete noob that it even took me 3 days to even clear the "tutorial-ish" first mission back in march, lmao.

[Daijizaiten]

A year later and this game is still great.

[gamingsteiner]

Loving this so far. The difficulty curve is kinda harsh at the start but really forces you to embrace the combat system in a good way. Highly recommend if you enjoy this type of game.

[xerohmega]

I'm about 20 hours in and this game is phenomenal, absolutely improves on everything nioh was. I would give it a 9/10 so far, super impressed. odachi life, baby.

[beatsbykana]

honestly any game with a character creator has me excited lol

[IamMortui]

The character customization is absolutely amazing. You can save presets and change your appearance AND GENDER at any time you want. That feature alone makes this game good.

[RagnarokMic]

Also, get the dodge pulse (Running Water: Man, it's the second skill in the middle left of the samurai tree) as soon as soon as you can, automatically pulsing with a perfect dodge after a combo keeps the action moving.

[Colin-khkp]

I’m poor so I’m just playing nioh 1 again...still good though.

[Silenttheory]

Damn already bought the game its awsome

[J.Kimaar]

when those hamsters come out of the chest it’ll turn into your character and then do a gesture, copy the gesture.

[thishandleistacken]

Once you get into it this is one of the best games I've ever played. Starting it right after beating Sekrio twice I had low expectations and while I wish the deflect mechanic was here (I know it's in Wo Long but I just don't like it as much as the depth of control and diversity of play in Nioh 2) the weapon variety, enemy and AI, the 3 stances and all the Yokai abilities etc etc etc I'm having just as much fun playing it as I did Sekiro which was way too easy on NG+ but perfectly balanced and challenging in the first playthrough (first took 2 weeks, second took 3 days) which is why I looked up the best mechanically interesting Soulslikes and went for Nioh 2 (got The Surge 2 as well, also really great deep mechanics to that soulslike as well). Anyway it's damn good is all I'm saying. It's hard to get into and understand how to play but once you do this is basically Devil May Cry in a soulslike

[A__Z]

Watching this after 400+ hours of playing this masterpiece

[SinSear]

This one wasn't even on my radar now I really wanna buy it. Thanks guys.