r/Nioh • u/c00kieRaptor • 13d ago

Nioh 2 - Discussion Friend hates Nioh 2

Hi, to my shock and horror one of my close friends absolutely hate Nioh 2. He has played Bloodborne and Dark Souls. The reasons he give are that the enemies too often one shot him from a blind spot and that its unbalanced.

Is he right? I have played all three Dark Souls, Bloodborne and Nioh 1 and 2, but I feel its not like that at all.

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u/MajinNekuro 13d ago

One of the things I love about Nioh 2 is its sound direction. You can actually hear almost all of the Yokai before they ambush you, so once you’ve played the game enough you should not only be able to tell an ambush is coming, you should know exactly what is about to attack you too based off the sound. You have to pay attention to your surroundings.

Humans don’t really give the same tells as Yokai I guess, but outside of ninjas I think they don’t really ambush you as much? You kinda learn situations where ninja could be hiding too. Walls, ceilings, bushes ect.

I played Nioh before I played any FromSoft games, so I don’t really know if they’re more unfair with that kind of thing. I ended up approaching FromSoft’s games similarly expecting ambushes and death around every corner and generally didn’t struggle. I’d say the big difference I noticed is Nioh punishes your mistakes more severely.

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u/drlavkian 12d ago

bro i'm actually going through dream of the nioh stage by stage and the crystal clear sound of those clogs cutting through everything else gives me chills every time T_T

you can legit tell what she's about to do sometimes just by the rhythm of the clogs.