Released last week.
Can download a carryover demo that starts off at the beginning of the game and lets you play up until a certain point in the story similarly to the Early Access 10 hour previews on Origin. Progress gets saved and you can continue where you left off if you buy the game.
Played it for around 5-6 hours on the PS4 (pro). Runs fluently at 60 with no frame drops so far. Doing most of everything in the demo will last 5-8 hours I guess with also doing the co-op. More if you do all training missions too if you want to try out all the different weapons.
Very monster hunterish with demons (Oni). Lots of different weapons with different styles, complex combat for all of them (about a dozen+ tutorials for each weapon set).
Open world that you progress through with quests and side quests. Then there are missions that lock you into zones with timers and the likes similarly to Monster Hunter. You play as a Slayer with a party of NPCs (up to 4), and sometimes you can encounter other Slayers in the open that will join you for a short while after helping them, making the party size 5. NPC AI is quite good so far and play better than me ... You can command them too for specific behaviour, but even the default one, they do what you "want" them to. Like when killing the larger demons, you need to knock off parts of their body, then cleanse (R1) the body parts before they reattach to the demon. Once they are cleansed (takes around 10-15 seconds alone, but gets shorter with each NPC doing the cleanse), the demon is vulnerable at that location. NPCs always try to get body parts, but also dodge the enemy and prioritize rezzing/cleansing you, if you die. Not once so far have I thought "what are you doing?", other than them running ahead and killing things before I even get there for free exp and loot, which isn't bad. Fairly certain the entire demo can be played without you hitting anything and letting the NPCs do it.
Combat you have styles (offensive / defensive) that adds different combos. You have 4 skills you can activate depending on which Mitama you are using (spirits of warriors you get from quests and rare drops from enemies). There are a lot of them. 20+ each in 11 categories. I think I had around 8 of them by the end of the demo. You can equip 3 at a time (so far) and swap them out even in missions to get access to new skills, but to change the 3 you are using, you need to go to the village and change them in the equipment menu.
Each Mitama also gets boost skills that level up with you depending on actions you do (elemental damage, kill x mobs, kill mobs a certain way, and so on). Those skills differ from all of them, so which ones are good depends on your build.
For Co-op (2-4 players) you get a different list of missions, you can't do the single player story (open world). You go into a "lobby" (the village) where you select missions, can fill up the rest of your team with NPCs from the single player campaign if you don't have a full party. In co-op, you can set a lobby to a password for friends or just open it up. Can also search for games. You then select a mission from a list and get sent right to it. Ranges from small areas to larger ones. In the large maps, you can encounter far more enemies than the ones tied to the mission.In the demo you get to play the "Phase 1" missions (5 in single player, 8 in co-op). Think there are 12 different difficulty phases since you can select a range of 1 - 12 in the online lobby.
Language is Japanese with text. However, similarly to Tokyo Mirage Sessions, the "banter" in your party isn't texted, so unless you know Japanese, that just turns into background noise.
Overall enjoyed the demo enough to buy it.
Toukiden 2
Can download a carryover demo that starts off at the beginning of the game and lets you play up until a certain point in the story similarly to the Early Access 10 hour previews on Origin. Progress gets saved and you can continue where you left off if you buy the game.
Played it for around 5-6 hours on the PS4 (pro). Runs fluently at 60 with no frame drops so far. Doing most of everything in the demo will last 5-8 hours I guess with also doing the co-op. More if you do all training missions too if you want to try out all the different weapons.
Very monster hunterish with demons (Oni). Lots of different weapons with different styles, complex combat for all of them (about a dozen+ tutorials for each weapon set).
Open world that you progress through with quests and side quests. Then there are missions that lock you into zones with timers and the likes similarly to Monster Hunter. You play as a Slayer with a party of NPCs (up to 4), and sometimes you can encounter other Slayers in the open that will join you for a short while after helping them, making the party size 5. NPC AI is quite good so far and play better than me ... You can command them too for specific behaviour, but even the default one, they do what you "want" them to. Like when killing the larger demons, you need to knock off parts of their body, then cleanse (R1) the body parts before they reattach to the demon. Once they are cleansed (takes around 10-15 seconds alone, but gets shorter with each NPC doing the cleanse), the demon is vulnerable at that location. NPCs always try to get body parts, but also dodge the enemy and prioritize rezzing/cleansing you, if you die. Not once so far have I thought "what are you doing?", other than them running ahead and killing things before I even get there for free exp and loot, which isn't bad. Fairly certain the entire demo can be played without you hitting anything and letting the NPCs do it.
Combat you have styles (offensive / defensive) that adds different combos. You have 4 skills you can activate depending on which Mitama you are using (spirits of warriors you get from quests and rare drops from enemies). There are a lot of them. 20+ each in 11 categories. I think I had around 8 of them by the end of the demo. You can equip 3 at a time (so far) and swap them out even in missions to get access to new skills, but to change the 3 you are using, you need to go to the village and change them in the equipment menu.
Each Mitama also gets boost skills that level up with you depending on actions you do (elemental damage, kill x mobs, kill mobs a certain way, and so on). Those skills differ from all of them, so which ones are good depends on your build.
For Co-op (2-4 players) you get a different list of missions, you can't do the single player story (open world). You go into a "lobby" (the village) where you select missions, can fill up the rest of your team with NPCs from the single player campaign if you don't have a full party. In co-op, you can set a lobby to a password for friends or just open it up. Can also search for games. You then select a mission from a list and get sent right to it. Ranges from small areas to larger ones. In the large maps, you can encounter far more enemies than the ones tied to the mission.In the demo you get to play the "Phase 1" missions (5 in single player, 8 in co-op). Think there are 12 different difficulty phases since you can select a range of 1 - 12 in the online lobby.
Language is Japanese with text. However, similarly to Tokyo Mirage Sessions, the "banter" in your party isn't texted, so unless you know Japanese, that just turns into background noise.
Overall enjoyed the demo enough to buy it.
Toukiden 2
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