Nioh 3

stupidmonkey

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Did everything I could in the demo and picked up the full version and season pass because I'll play it day one. Almost through the entire first map for what's doable. Been one shotting everything up until now so we'll see what happens when I reach this 4-5 bosses in a row stage.
 
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I finished the game late last night and I guess "struggled" on a few bosses, but never near as much as pure souls games and nothing felt cheap and unfair. Going through first map again on ng+ now and things are a bit more difficult so far so a nice change. Really enjoyed this game, so much fun to "master" a style and weave interesting moves when things start click. I will also say that my build never really came online until the VERY end.
 
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Rajaah said:
What's a good weapon to main in Nioh 2? And what Guardian Spirit to take at the beginning?

It has some serious "paralysis by analysis" at the beginning, giving you 11 weapons to pick from and 3 Guardian Spirits. What is this, Pokemon?

I really wanted to try the Spear in one of these, and Low Stance Spear seems to work really well. High Stance Axe works well in Nioh 1 while being kinda ass in Nioh 2, I hear? Then again I've looked at a few lists and they all ranked the Spear pretty low, with things like Fist winning out. I get the feeling Fist (and Switchglaive, and the staff) are super high skill-ceiling weapons, being the new ones. As someone with low-ish skill (only as much as I needed to get through Sekiro and all the Soulsbornes), a high skill ceiling isn't gonna do much for me.

I tried a few things and started over. I know the weapon choice at the start is mainly about the stats (went with Constitution and Heart) rather than the weapons. They got rid of the Spirit stat and split Stamina's effects between two stats, Stamina and Courage. I kinda wish they would have just dropped another stat and consolidated effects instead. The stats are so good/important that it's impossible to get everything you need without having some weak points from stats falling off (or having everything be Mid because you have to spread points around so much). Can't get away with stat-pooling as much as in other games of this type.

Nioh 2 is so much smoother than Nioh 1 in terms of the speed of the gameplay. Or maybe I'm just imagining it.
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Tonfa are pretty great in nioh 2. Spear too.
 
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stupidmonkey said:
Did everything I could in the demo and picked up the full version and season pass because I'll play it day one. Almost through the entire first map for what's doable. Been one shotting everything up until now so we'll see what happens when I reach this 4-5 bosses in a row stage.
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3080 handling it?
 
Rajaah

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Feels like Nioh 2 enemies track you way more than Nioh 1. Like the first couple bosses would take these giant swings, hesitate, and actually rotate following my character all the way around before they slammed the attack. It's a ridiculous amount of tracking. I'm guessing you're supposed to rely less on dodging and more on blocking or parrying. They also have the big red moves that do huge damage, that you're supposed to parry while in Yokai form, but what if you're not in Yokai form (which is the case most of the time)? I was getting crushed on the first side-mission boss of Nioh 2 until I got lucky and stumbled into a win.

Nioh 2 is pretty great outside of boss tracking. What an awesome game.
 
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Rajaah said:
Feels like Nioh 2 enemies track you way more than Nioh 1. Like the first couple bosses would take these giant swings, hesitate, and actually rotate following my character all the way around before they slammed the attack. It's a ridiculous amount of tracking. I'm guessing you're supposed to rely less on dodging and more on blocking or parrying. They also have the big red moves that do huge damage, that you're supposed to parry while in Yokai form, but what if you're not in Yokai form (which is the case most of the time)? I was getting crushed on the first side-mission boss of Nioh 2 until I got lucky and stumbled into a win.

Nioh 2 is pretty great outside of boss tracking. What an awesome game.
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The red means you should burst counter, brute is easiest but trades damage sometimes, phantom is parry god, and feral is a long dodge basically. Yokai Shift | Nioh 2 Wiki

I ended up with brute through most of the game, while slow you can hit it as soon as you hear the audio queue and counter them no timing needed.

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