Nioh 2

[NJClaw]

That Lady Osakabe boss is shit. Gimmicky bullshit with random lasers that come out of nowhere.

With the splitstaff it's p. funny in NG. You kill each eye with 3 Changing Ways, then take away half the health of the boss with Dragon Dance. It's over in less than a minute.

 

[Reinhardt]

Running second difficulty and collecting skillpoints in orange equip. Feels gud. Only weapon is from second difficulty - picked first thing that dropped and decided to make it my main for now. It's dual swords.

I can tank not just 3 hits, but as many as i want, because i heal for 3k after picking each core.

 

[Wunderbar]

New patch arrived, now the game has keyboard input icons. Gave the game another whirl, finished the first mission and killed Mezuki on the first try (idk if that's good or meh). Maybe i'm becoming dumber with age, but this game feels way too overwhelming and feature-bloated. The soul cores, burst-countering, POE-like radial skill trees, kodama bazaar and all the other new shit.

The first Nioh was pretty bloated as well, but the sequel just further adds more and more stuff and this doesn't look fun to me tbh. Well, it was just the first level, maybe i'll get used to it later.

 

[Shackleton]

New patch arrived, now the game has keyboard input icons. Gave the game another whirl, finished the first mission and killed Mezuki on the first try (idk if that's good or meh). Maybe i'm becoming dumber with age, but this game feels way too overwhelming and feature-bloated. The soul cores, burst-countering, POE-like radial skill trees, kodama bazaar and all the other new shit.

The first Nioh was pretty bloated as well, but the sequel just further adds more and more stuff and this doesn't look fun to me tbh. Well, it was just the first level, maybe i'll get used to it later.

Just you wait until you've finished the first playthrough. I thought I had a pretty good handle on the games systems and now all of a sudden I've got some 'Stone of Penitence' to level up and I've just picked up some sort of scroll mission that's given me an extra equipment slot if I run it. Plus I read about infusing weapons with soul cores to look forward to later? On top of the expected extra layer of weapon rarity ofc.

Personally though, I think it gives you a reason to keep playing. I'm a long way from feeling like I've seen everything the game has to offer and that's after playing through it all.

 

[NJClaw]

Plus I read about infusing weapons with soul cores to look forward to later?

You should already be able to do that with those yokai weapons that have the Imbue Corruption property.

 

[Wunderbar]

Is it just me, or the new weapons are the epithomy of Nioh 2 feature bloat?

Tried the splitstaff and switchglaive, and after two missions I still don't feel them. Movesets seem too random and chaotic, each time i try to hit someone it looks like a flashy mess.

Respeccing to tonfas.

 

[Deflowerer]

Jesus fucking christ, start gitting gud for once.

 

[Wunderbar]

Jesus fucking christ, start gitting gud for once.

I'm not saying that the weapons are bad. It's just that I mash buttons and somehow win without realizing what happened.

 

[Reinhardt]

Play fists like real man.

 

[Nortar]

If he did not like the splitstaff for being too chaotic and having a feel or random buttons mashing, the fists are even worse.
I myself wanted to like them, but I just can not for the aforementioned reasons.

Odachi is the real man's choice.
Odachi and heavy armor.
And just a touch of lightning onmyo. For the ultimate samurai-paladin-sama experience.

 

[Silverfish]

Why play a weeb game if you're not going to master the blade?

 

[Wunderbar]

Eh, i dabbled with odachi on the first Nioh, wanted to try sequel-exclusive weapons. Dual hatchets then.

 

[NJClaw]

Splitstaff is great, but its moves are indeed a bit too flashy and some of them are poorly balanced. Changing Ways shreds everything to pieces and doesn't lock you into its animation for longer than the other skills. There are very few enemies against whom you want to use a different move when you have a window of opportunity. Basically Shin Crusher with Masterful Slice to deplete the enemy's ki followed by Changing Ways is what works best against everything. I still haven't tried fists, but I had much more fun with the splitstaff than the switchglaive and hatchets. My main problem with the hatchets is that anything that leads to a "ranged" approach is not fun to me in these games (bows and guns, kunai, onmyo projectiles).

 

[Silverfish]

Eh, i dabbled with odachi on the first Nioh, wanted to try sequel-exclusive weapons. Dual hatchets then.

Pro-tip: wait for an enemy to attack, dodge followed by high-stance heavy attack. For whatever reason, the hatchets' h-s heavy reaches insane distances after a dodge roll.

 

[Grampy_Bone]

Had the same problem as Nioh 1 for me. Played about 70% of the way through and got sick of it. Too many missions, too repetitive. Maybe people love all the side quests but I think the game would be better if it was just the main missions. The side levels are either really dull or retreads of the main levels. If I want to level grind in Dark Souls I just do that, I don't need a bunch of side quests to justify it.

 

[NJClaw]

But you can skip all the useless filler quests without loosing anything of importance. Due to how much quickly amrita gained scales with higher level missions, you won't even ever be underleveled.

 

[Suicidal]

I agree about the sub missions. Sure you can skip them, but the problem is that occasionally there are submissions with fun bosses hidden behind completion of other sub missions. I also think the short ones where you have to fight a gauntlet of different monsters are pretty fun. I just wish they did away with the ones where you just have to retread one of the levels you've already beaten.

 

[Hyperion]

Splitstaff is for babbys who need to spam 1 or 2 skills to win, namely Changing Ways into Dragon Dance for ki broken bosses.

Fists reward using your full complement of attacks through building Unbroken stacks for crazy damage and let you chain everything together, including low stance skills to high stance skills of you switch during an attack animation. In other words, fists are the way of kings.

 

[NJClaw]

Splitstaff is for babbys who need to spam 1 or 2 skills to win, namely Changing Ways into Dragon Dance for ki broken bosses.

Hey, that's not true. Sometimes I also use Otakemaru's Yokai Ability.

 

[Reinhardt]

Sometimes I also use Otakemaru's Yokai Ability.

Use one-eyed and one-legged, like real man!

 

[Shackleton]

Had the same problem as Nioh 1 for me. Played about 70% of the way through and got sick of it. Too many missions, too repetitive. Maybe people love all the side quests but I think the game would be better if it was just the main missions. The side levels are either really dull or retreads of the main levels. If I want to level grind in Dark Souls I just do that, I don't need a bunch of side quests to justify it.

I felt that way in Nioh 1 for a bit, but it was just I wasn't playing with the right weapon. If the combat isn't clicking somehow, I would suggest swapping weapons. In fact, I would suggest speccing into Magic and Switchglaive and start working towards the stance-dance skills. Onmyo (or Ninjutsu I assume) makes combat more interesting by itself and when you're stance dancing to build up your damage meter and end the combo with a Cyclone with the enemies Ki depleted it's soooo satisfying. I could never get tired of it.

 

[Reinhardt]

Magic and Switchglaive

DOUBLE GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

 

[Shackleton]

Magic and Switchglaive

DOUBLE GAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!

Hey, there's nothing wrong with carrying 5 Sloth Talismans around with you and don't let anyone say otherwise!

 

[Silverfish]

Sloth talismans are a good start, but why not pack some poison shurikens and iga bombs as well? Then just kick back and laugh.

 

[Grampy_Bone]

speccing into Magic and Switchglaive

I am specced for magic and glaive. In Nioh 1 I went basic bitch katana so I wanted something different here.