Tag: Nioh

With a lot of cursing, I also managed to beat the third boss:

The bosses design is great, but they have too much HP, or the character doesn’t deal enough damage. Instead of being a glass cannon, like in many other Souls-like games, you are taking potshots at the bosses most of the time.
There are tons of sidemissions, which occur on the same levels as the main ones, but at different times of the day, and with different starting locations and blocked paths.

Must say that I don’t particularly enjoy that game, though. Apart from how fragile the hero is, you also need to manage all those weapons that are dropped randomly, which is simply not fun. A shame, I liked the character design a lot. But life is too short.

What I didn’t expect is that England would be involved in this. Turns out England learned how to collect amrita, philosopher stone. And now the plan to incite a war in Japan to collect more of these, and maybe even conquer Spain.

So glad there’s a simple pause option in this game. I hate games without pause.

There is a ton of game mechanics, and they are introduced all at once. There are stances, that change how fast and how powerful your attacks are. There’s also a “berserk” mode, and a super-move that you can execute once you enter the berserk mode.
How hard is this game? Pretty brutal. It’s not Dark Souls, it’s Bloodborne. It’s much more fast-paced than any of the Dark Souls games. Armor doesn’t do shit, even minibosses finish you in two swings. But there is some kind of parry system against the bosses, and a stamina recovery system. You get most of your stamina back if you press a button at a right time. Also, there is apparenty a combo system that requires you to switch stances in between. A real finger-twister.
Almost dropped the game on the second boss. But turns out the game just doesn’t explain a lot of mechanics. There are healing items. You can run out of them, like Bloodborne and unlike Dark Souls. But at least they are automatically stocked to the max capacity.
Also, you can imbue your weapon, which is also very useful against the boss.