Guys i'm starting to get disappointed by the game. I just finished third region and all bosses beside enenra, snake and toshimitsu ( the hardest) were a joke so far, especially the humanoid ones. I bought the game for the challenge and it is deeply lacking so far. I heard you guys dlc are harder and from third difficulty onward the game becomes pretty tough, but in a souls game even ng should be never this easy.
just my toughts
As much as I love this game, I agree that it's a bit on the easy side. I wish it was harder. Nioh games were never about difficulty tbh. I don't know where this meme that they're super hard games, harder than Dark Souls, comes from, but they're really not. They start off hard when you're still getting used to the mechanics and the combat system, but after you get accustomed to it and start using all the different tools the game turns from Dark Souls into Devil May Cry, where you just start wiping the floor with all opposition while chaining endless combos.
Also, because the game is also a Diablo-like, it's very easy to break it, often unintentionally, by coming across broken abilities or item effects and etc. For example, in the mid game I acquired my first holy weapon and the status effect it applies made fighting the demon enemies and bosses way too easy cause I would completely drain their stamina in like 2 combos, so after a while I decided not to use holy weapons, at least until NG+.
Nioh 1 was the same for me. I forced myself not to use different stuff like magic, spirit weapons and etc. and the game was still pretty easy outside of a few difficulty spike bosses.
The only exception to this is the Nioh 1 DLC, which were the hardest content I've ever experienced in an action game like this, where almost every boss took me at least a few hours to beat. But this was mostly because they weren't properly balanced - when the DLCs came out, the devs assumed everyone who's gonna play them will already be several NG+ cycles in, so they balanced them for those players, so for me, who had just finished the story campaign on normal, the DLCs were one shot city - most things killed me in 1-2 hits. Many of the bosses had attacks that killed me in 1 hit, often with little to no windup time. I'm sure that if I had better stats, the DLCs would not have been nearly as hard.
Nioh 2 DLCs are actually balanced for normal difficulty, so I wouldn't say they're much harder than the base game.
