Smooth combat, varied enemies, THREE movesets for EACH weapon type, cutscenes which feature your character, a complex talent/trait/skill combination system, expansive endgame, myriad spells, and somehow STILL has an active playerbase.

I have over 400 hours played on this game. 300 hours plus on playstation unfortunately. 50 hours pirated on PC and another 14 hours legit on PC. All this prior to the release of DLC.

With that said, this game is a masterpiece. It might be the best game to ever have released. It is very hard to get into but there is no better feeling then progressing through the difficulties and getting stronger along the way.

There is so much depth in this game, so many mechanics and different build options. The story is gripping. Please give this a change.

You will not regret it

Buy this game on your PS4, not Steam, if you aren't willing to risk controller compatibility issues.

At first I thought this game's difficulty was beyond my skillset, but after testing my own patience, I've come to the conclusion that yes, it is extremely difficult, but it also might be translated wrong and incompatible with many controllers.

I've beaten every souls game, but cannot get past Nioh 2's tutorial on my PC controller.

After ignoring the tutorial at first, I returned to it on a whim when certain bosses felt too difficult. Firstly, during the 'Hold Y when an opponent's Ki is depleted.' Tutorial, Every time I did so the tutorial reset, however when I held Y when the opponent was recovering their Ki, the special move activated and the tutorial completed.

Currently I'm stuck on the 'Click LB and Y during an enemy attack' tutorial; because, after hours of attempts, nothing ever happens, I've tried mixing up the button presses, assuming it was transcribed wrong, but there's no identifying animations or even a reset option to the tutorial to reread requirements. I've played the game deep in to 2 acts, and I've mastered moves in games like Soul Calibur, so I can tell it's a technical issue, not a skill factor.

I wouldn't recommend buying this game if you're using a PC controller. It seems like an incredibly fun game, the choice of weapon styles, stances, and the difficulty scaling feel intense. But the sheer fact that most controllers I use aren't fit to output advanced techniques makes the game broken and unplayable. If I were rating the game on PS4, I know I'd enjoy it, but since this is the steam version, I must provide a thumbs down. :steamthumbsdown:

My experience with the first Nioh was...not great, to say the least. I quit in frustration after spending hours trying to defeat Onryoki, the first real boss. For whatever reason the mechanics just didn't click for me. Fast-forward a few years later, and against my better judgement I decide to pick up Nioh 2 on sale. And how did that go?

Pretty much exactly the same, if not worse. I spent two hours trying and failing to get through the first mission, forget even getting to a boss. Once again, I uninstalled out of frustration. But for some reason, something made me feel like I shouldn't have given up so quickly. So later that same day, I redownloaded the game and gave it another go. A couple more hours of struggling later and I'd made it to Mezuki, the first boss. As expected, I died. And died. And died a few more times. But then something happened.

I won. And I didn't take a single hit in the process.

Now, I'm not going to claim that I suddenly "got gud" or anything like that. It was a fluke. I still mostly didn't know what I was doing. I got a couple lucky dodges, that's all. But I figured, if I could do that, fluke or not, maybe Nioh 2 wasn't beyond me after all. So I kept at it.

There were still struggles. Plenty, in fact. But as I kept going, more and more of the mechanics started to click into place. I started to understand how the game wanted me to play it. Little by little, I progressed. Until, eventually, I'd finished the base game. It was at that point, I realized:

Nioh 2 might be one of the greatest action games of all time.

As I write this, I'm on NG++ and have finished two of the three DLCs, so I still have more to do. I'm not playing as much as other games have come out that have drawn my attention away from Nioh 2. But eventually I'll get back to it and finish it up. Because I genuinely love this game, and honestly I kinda feel like I owe it to the game to see it through to the very, very end. If only because of how it showed me that, even if I feel like a game is beyond me, if I truly feel like there's something there and can just push past the wall that's keeping me from it, I can find one of my favorite games of all time.

better than wukong

My favorite souls-like game.
So good i bought it on PC after multple hours on console.

The game is made for people who have a good life, and so bored that he likes all the odds against him.
Imagine this, you are playing a fighting game, on top of having a stamina bar that only allows you to do about 3 heavy hits, you opponents have infinite stamina and can kill you with three light punch, two heavy punch, or about one command grab. It will take you about 100 heavy punches to beat your opponent. Oh and there is more, he can spam super as many times as he wants while you can do yours about once per mission since that's how slow your anima charges up. Every single fight feels like playing with cheaters, because you are bound by so many limitations and rules, but your enemies have none of that. By the way, the "stamina" of human boss is not your pathetic stamina bar, because they can still spam combo and jump around like a wild monkey when they clearly have no stamina left. All the Yokai simply have infinite stamina bars.
You know, people were saying Ninja Gaiden is a hard game, but in Ninja Gaiden you can walk on water, cut enemy head off with a flying swallow, ragdoll them with warhammer, izuna drop their brains out, fiend seal right into their crutches, and you have infinite stamina as well. Did Team Ninja so desperately try to copy Dark Souls they forgot how good of a game Ninja Gaiden was? Did they forget people play action game to kick ass, not stay as a lowly, pathetic mob and watch your enemies doing all the cool ♥♥♥♥? Ninja Gaiden is not an easy game but at least you feel enabled playing it, and you never feel you enemies are better equipped with abilities than you. It's always the players who take control could have done better. I never felt that when I played Nioh while I spent 5 minutes on a boss and killed by two light jabs.
These "souls" like games are like plagues to the action genres. Devs straight up didn't even care about balance and community would "git gud" any criticism right away. At its root, Demons' Souls are slow paced RPG where stamina and high damage made more sense to prevent player from being reckless. You are not being reckless for failing to dodge one command grab and lose 90% of your health. Look at any of the high level play of Ninja Gaiden, Bayonetta, and look at these souls like games. You roll, and you roll, and you roll, until the boss allows you hit once or twice, and you keep rolling. Team Ninja, learn from your older self, not from all these shallow souls like crap. Those games are not machenically hard so people can just bang their head against the wall over and over until the wall breaks, such that they can say "Oh I play hard games, I beat souls-born-sekiro, I am so good, buh buh buh"

At first I didnt like nioh2. It was my second game from team ninja, my first was ninja gaiden back on the orginal xbox. Iv heard it was "souls like", but thats not true. I just finished my first playthrough and started ng+, this games combat system is completely opposite to a souls. It seemed like it was to much at first, but once you get the hang of it, its a beauty to play. This game is very hard and not for faint of heart. It takes a couple missions to get the hang of combat, and a whole playthrough to master a weapon. My only regrets is not using yokai abilities and shift early on lmao. made it more difficult. I would advise leaving "souls" mentality behind because this is its own beast.

Easily on of the top 5 best Soulslikes of all time. Just as good as something like Bloodborne, but with way more indepth combat and a ton more replay value.

played wo long both 10.10 but hard af