so when does this get hard? or it's generally just easier with all the new toys you can play with? i am in the 3rd region and just killed the owl boss. burst counters are pretty much OP and not that hard to do. yokai abilities get me out of many pinches. i killed a lot of bosses in the first time including the owl one.
finally fully committed to switchglaive and the shift sticks and have omyo build. spells like laser melee beam is pretty OP.
but still top notch action game IMO. the combat is even more satisfying even though it's easier.
People are pretty split on the difficulty of this game. Some say it's easier than the first, for others it's harder. I think it depends a lot on build/playstyle/experience with the first Nioh. Even minor things like type of guardian spirit can impact the difficulty a lot, cause each one has a different type of burst counter that can be easier/harder to perform under specific situations. For example, I used the red guardian spirit that has the burst counter where you have to backhand an enemy as it's charging up its burst attack. On some enemies, it was impossible for me to do, because the charge up animation was too quick or they did it outside of my attack range and then lunged at me, so I had to have either pixel-perfect reaction time to interrupt them mid lunge (which is extremely fast) or predict the attack in advance. So because I used this spirit, some of the bosses for me were harder than they probably were for a lot of people.
Personally, I found Nioh 1 easier than 2 (if we don't count the ridiculously unbalanced DLCs, but in this case Nioh 1 is significantly harder than any other 3rd person action game I've ever played). In 2 I struggled with more bosses than I did in 1 and 2 also has a lot more dangerous normal enemies with complex movesets.
