GAME SINS | Everything Wrong With Nioh 2

Nioh 2 may as well be an expansion pack for Nioh 1 that you have to pay full price for. Very little of the gameplay has changed and the plot and writing has gotten worse. It's still a solid Souls-like just as Nioh was, but as far as sequels go it did the bare minimum. Here are its sins.

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[ninjartist]

Dartigan: "This man wifed a Castle"
A Japanese man married a hologram I'm not surprised

[vanatos]

This is legit my first time hearing the game in English and I'm glad for my decision to play it in native Japanese.

[JABRIEL]

"Horniness shouldn't always override good character design...just most of the time", That NEEDS to be on a T-shirt!

[Suksass]

The whole family thing with Hide confused the hell out of me. It makes no sense that no one can recognize them or at the very least question why they look like a perfect copy of Yoshitatsu.
Also, Yoshi was Hide's twin brother, not half.

[joshyboy]

Tokichiro sounds like one of those English blokes you meet at a local pub after leaving the stadium from a football (soccer) game.

[AzureRoxe]

I will never understand why devs sometimes want to make story-heavy games that focus heavily on the main character, but then make the character mute and NOT give you tons of dialogue options so we can at least give the MC a personality.

[oddoneout]

I instantly hated Tokichiro's voice, so I switched to Japanese.
It just didn't fit him.

[TheRealGuywithoutaMustache]

One of the positives are their visual portrayal of historical figures and the accuracy to how they were depicted to look like in the past, it's actually pretty impressive.

[yutro]

Even by watching this video I felt confused and very lost from the plot.

[LordofBroccoli]

I for one found that Nioh 2 improved its gameplay where it mattered most - adding Burst Counters for more aggressive gameplay, hitboxes feel more fair, half of the enemies are new and are introduced with better pacing, most areas are easier to navigate. Lack of enemy variety and chaotic areas were my biggest complaints in the first Nioh. I also found the narrative and characters much more memorable than the first one, though admittedly that isn't saying much.

[PhantomShadow]

14:31 Link, be careful, The blood moon rises once again.

[shadowwraith]

15:28
In other words, Tokichiro has brought peace, freedom, justice, and security to his new empire.

[KaiisKlips]

Hide is also related to Oda Nobunaga via his wife. As she is Hides sister. The end boss Otakemaru is Hides uncle. I believe Hide has one or two more siblings as well.

[imskiller]

For you Nioh 2 players in the comments, there was an update today giving us a small handful of extra missions/twilight version of said missions.

[noriakikakyoin]

20:23 María could easily use her insta kill grab attack from the first game. In fact, she likes to spam that attack.

[cjham]

Hide wasn't affected when the yokai turned bad because of the spirit stone Tokichiro used on him in the begining. At the end of the level you can see him suck the stones power out of Hide

[idtyu]

The first setting I changed in nioh 2, is language setting, it has to be Japanese

[Zero-Descent]

2023 and the game absolutely holds up, in fact it's still the best souls like game ever made.

I just began the video, but about the first sin, you can say that the game feels like a Nioh 1.5 more than an actual sequel and I'd somewhat agree with you, but saying that the game only has 1 new addition is straight up misleading.


- Brand new Create a Character mode, and it's objectively the best CaC a game has ever put out
- 2 new weapons.
- New skills for old weapons
- New Burst Counter mechanic
- New Soul Core mechanic like you mentioned
- Yokai Shift replacing Living Weapon
- Tons of new stages, new enemies and new bosses
- Fixed quite a few flaws from the first game like poor stage designs, low amount of enemy variants and placement, how ki management and damage calculations work, etc...


2 is a straight up upgrade from 1 in almost every single way except the story.

[FOES-YT]

9:48 The dagger that Hide, the protagonist has grants them eternal life thus they cannot age or die - Mumyo holds the hilt of the yoki slaying weapon, which was shattered long ago - there is also cutscenes where the dagger and hilt start to glow eventually becoming that yoki slaying weapon, it's kind of obvious that the never aging effects of the protagonists dagger will also be on the hilt of Mumyo's necklace. Also another reason to why she still doesn't age is that her guardian spirit is said to bring the person an ever long life, which explains why she doesn't age in 18 years towards the end of the game - albeit the game doesn't tell you most of this directly so I can understand how someone wouldn't understand if they didn't read or payed much attention to the story.

EDIT: I don't remember reading anywhere in game or from an npc stating the yokai slaying weapon only grants eternal life to yokai, I assume they never truly "die" just get reincarnated in some form. However if that is true then I suppose Mumyo could theoretically be a shiftling though that's just a theory which doesn't make much sense as the Sohoya would've just killed where when they found out she was half yokai.