Running the ng+ difficulty is more fun than the dlc. The dlc missions themselves were pretty bad compared to the base game.Ya, Nioh is definitely a series you can find ways to "break", particularly later game but even at the beginning by just straight farming stuff.
That said, Nioh to me is a far better game than Sekiro. Outside of Bloodborne, it's probably my personal favorite "Souls" type game. Has a great hook - tough bosses, gear chase, speed running, crafting etc.
Finally beat Nioh 2 last night, had a great time. Deciding now to go through NG+ or into the DLC. Think I'll farm a bit in NG+ then jump into the DLC as I've heard its a bit more difficult than the base game.
Some standout boss fights to me > Naotaka (Odachi Ice Guy), Katsuie (the hog axe guy - to me this was the hardest fight in the base game by some distance), Azai (the bird guy). These were difficult but rewarding and didn't feel like bullshit to me.
That fecking dumb palace fight was terribly designed and annoying to me. Story was still kind of week, but wasn't terrible and easy enough to follow.
9/10 for me, better than the first in every way and I really liked the first one.
Way of the demon was horrible because yeah they did make everything spongey as fuck. It damn near made me quit the game. Then DLC 2 comes out and Dream of the Wise was more balanced in that regard (mainly because they introduced stones, which have a difficulty system not unlike Diablo's Torment level system), but the xp just sucked and it took for fucking ever to level. Then DLC 3 came out and they found a good balance and it's not spongey or stupid stingy on the Amrita. They even went back and buffed the other graces so there wasn't this retarded Versatility/Fists Meta as the only real viable option. The base set bonuses still suck balls for the most part, but the other graces have decently high enough numbers that you aren't forced to use Versatility to get anything above 20% to whatever melee you want to buff. Nioh 2 is just way overtuned for my tastes. They want this to be an action game over a loot grind game, but I think people must have left because they have somewhat reverted that now. They just have way better QoL changes that are not in Nioh 1 that makes me not want to go back to that (I never fully did the Abyss)Love Nioh 1 and 2. I only made it through the first 2 NG cycles of Nioh 2 though, anything further the enemies just started to feel too much like damage sponges and wasn't fun (for me) anymore. Tonfa mastery challenge got me close to powerspiking my controller into the ground.
They pulled all the nioh 1 assets for that DLC it seems. Boss as well, it is my least favorite level and boss from Nioh 1. Got through it fairly quickly though, boss is super easy with counter hits.The boat zone in the DLC is terrible to me so I'm just running through NG+ gearing up. I'm a beefy mage just destroying everything on the map with my little lightning/fire/water mines
Nioh 2 is a fantastic game until you get to the endgame. They ruined everything with the DLC (and even if you don't own the DLC, the worst of the changes were patched in anyway).
Not sure if they did anything to spec swapping in the updates but I only ever used one character for everything.
How'd they ruin everything?
I still haven't gotten to Nioh 2, but I could completely uninstall it and do a new install offline or something, bet that would circumvent a patch.
First they made it so you can't trade gear mods anymore so the grind to get a set of gear for any particular build increased probably a hundred fold.How'd they ruin everything?
I still haven't gotten to Nioh 2, but I could completely uninstall it and do a new install offline or something, bet that would circumvent a patch.
Interesting, haven't yet come across any of that (just beat... the giant house boss with weird tentacle eyes?), guessing there's still a lot left.
What weapons and armor did you use?I loved the first Nioh, but for whatever reason, when this came out, I only played like a few hours and lost interest. Now that the remaster came out on PS5 on PS+, I restarted and am really loving it. I'm on ng+(Dream of the Strong?) and still really enjoying it. Going through the DLC now.
Ya, Nioh is definitely a series you can find ways to "break", particularly later game but even at the beginning by just straight farming stuff.
Been using Axe build and using all 7 pcs of the Obsidian Samurai set, but I have my stamina way spiked so that my weight is still green, so it's a good balance of dodging and blocking.What weapons and armor did you use?
When I played this on release I got hard stuck on a boss and gave up eventually. I picked it back up last week to play the ps5 remaster. Playing fine now but I am concerned I get stuck again when I get back to that boss at some point. Currently using tonfas but will probably try to switch to an axe and git gud at blocking versus the dodging I do now based on advice in the ps5 thread.