Nioh: Complete Edition

It won't let you change your resolution, and if you, like me, don't like using onedrive and disabled it, it will just lock you out of configuring your game at all.

I kinda like it kinda hate it 7/10 , map design sucks , same looking dungeon areas that annoyed me to hell bragging this game is like 70 hrs long but when u running around like a donkey. But cause its hard and i love the setting

After finishing the game, I must say it was a great game. The weapons are fun to use and the difficulty was fair for all the bosses. If you're a fan of Souls-like games, definitely give it a try.

The game has an inverse difficulty curve for the most part. It starts rather challenging, then you slowly get access to more useful magic/ninjutsu, and then you overpower everything until it picks up at the end again.

Also don't try to play it with some other soulslike games, it's its own thing. For example builds don't come into play until the highest difficulty and your stats are best rather even until like 20 in everything basically.

Have fun!

good game in 2024 :)

same machenics as Pascal Wager, pretty good so far

love this game--finished the main story line a little over a year ago but still have some main and submissions left in the regions..been playing it off and on for some years and improved a whole bunch--used to hate the game because i thought it was hard and kept getting my ass beat but i learned and eventually things got easier. now im noticing alot of the upper missions are super overleveled like im at lvl 178/179 and im getting absolutely plowed on lvl 200 missions and it takes me forever to cut through guards and mini bosses let alone the main ones...so im back at the point where i need to retrain and learn and farm for a very long time...just sucks because i have to complete other missions with bosses i hate to get there. overall enjoy the game because it somehow makes something super repetitive, hard, and annoying fun at times. theres always room for improvement and it requires some dedication. im grateful to have played this game for as long as i did and i cant wait to 100% this. im sure ive encountered all the new main bosses in the game but i gotta say the fucking electric dog boss is the most annoying one ever. gotta say the devs did a great job designing some annoying ass bosses that test tf out of you.

Tried it as it was compared to the Dark Souls games that I like. Did not enjoy, but unfortunately took too long to return.

If Dark Souls made love with Monster Hunter, you would get Nioh

Amazing game, highly underrated!

Very good game. Some call it souls-like, some call it hack-and-slash. I'd say it leans towards the latter. 8 different weapon types with customizable movesets means combat is as dynamic as you can make it. Both the player and enemies have stamina and mastering the timing on your combos makes your stamina last longer. You can also shoot people with bows, guns and cannons.

Story is a retelling of the final stage of the Sengoku period, after the deaths of the legendary conqueror Oda Nobunaga and his successor, Toyotomi Hideyoshi. William Adams is an Irish pirate that was imprisoned by the British crown for his ability to find magical gemstones called Amrita, which Britain used to win the war against Spain. When people die, they leave behind Amrita. This Amrita can be used for calling forth powerful demons and sprits. An evil alchemist named Kelley is heading to the feudal Japan to sow discord and reap Amrita, carrying William's spirit friend with him by force. William joins the side of Tokugawa Ieyasu to stop Kelley from completely ravaging Japan and to save his spirit friend.
TL;DR - Irish guy goes to Feudal Japan but with demons, wizards and magic.
William himself is pretty silent and stern: He doesn't have much of a character himself. The historical figures like Hanzo, Muneshige and Hisahide have more personality. William is meant to provide an outsider perspective for the player entering the setting. It works, especially when Hanzo speaks heavily accented Engrish and none of the demons pointing a sword at you have subtitles.

There are some subtle translation errors and missteps; Nothing that jumps out immediately, but if you look you'll find it. e.g. "Parry" has different meanings in different stat modifiers, sometimes it refers to guarding in general and sometimes it refers to guarding at a specific time. Ailment duration modfiers won't specify if they are applied to you or the opponent. Annoying for min-maxing, but nothing that will get in the way of a casual playthrough to about NG++. Sometimes the enemy bestiary will tell you the enemy named "Hino-Enma" is pronounced "HEE no En mah" and explain what the name means. Other times it will say the boss named "Giant Toad" is pronounced "Giant Toad." Armor and weapon flavor descriptions feel off at certain points. Nevertheless, these aren't bad enough to affect the core of the game negatively: Pick a weapon, equip some armor and a spirit, then combo enemies to death. When you die, run like hell back to your spirit buddy and get back to killing.

Great game, but my one gripe is that the human bosses don't follow the same or similar battle logic as the player. It is dumb they are able to use their spirit power again and again while we as the player not only have to wait before we can charge it but we have to beat a bunch of enemies to charge it.

Love the weapon choices and the unique setups you can have. the magic and ninjutsu add another layer to the combat giving you many options. It is nice they let you reset your level easily enough to try different builds as every weapons seems to have one it is great at fighting and one it isn't.

Performance is great and graphics are great for its year. It doesn't suffer the same crap darksouls did with the platforming which is nice. I even find elden ring has less precise movement compared to this game.

One part Onimusha, another part Dark Souls. That's the best way to describe this game!

So fun and not bad!!

It's a great action role playing game just like Nier, except with a title name that sounds more like Japanese than German.

Good Game And So Close To Ninja Gaiden And Shinobi Game With Souls Games System

Very good. I love all the souls games so I'm used to always dying constantly.

This game is enjoyable if you only play the game once. New game plus and forward offers no real enjoyment. It all revolves around repetitive grinding, frustrating and cheap deaths, same boring enemies, horrible loot drops, and reused maps. Every time I start a new game plus, I always feel weaker than the last. The sense of progress is none existent, you can still get one shoted by the weakest enemies even with high level gear. I have level 310 (+130) ethereal armor with graces on it and still get destroyed if I make a mistake. The balance in this game is garbage. If you play on higher difficulties get ready to die in 1-3 hits by every single enemy in the game, but if you go back to lower difficulties you 1-3 hit everything. Now the dlc for the game does nothing to solve any of these issues, as a matter of fact it takes the worst parts of the game and turns the dial up by 10. Some maps are reskins of the base game maps. You can count with one hand the number of new enemy types they introduce. Get ready for cheap and headache inducing enemy placement. Oh and don't get me started with the abomination of a map that is siege of osaka winter. The replayability of this game is a real chore because you never seem to get stronger, its only for those that like the tedium of memorizing every single enemy pattern. If you play the game once its really enjoyable, but the more you play the less fun it becomes.

For me this game will always be 10/10.
Game is already a classic, still waiting for Nioh 3 and really hope we gonna see it soon.

Even for a souls-like, this game is too hard.
Enemy attacks can lock you in place, making a second/final blow unavoidable.
The game is poorly optimised for keyboard and mouse.
Dark Souls 2 was better than this.
Don't waste your money on this.

Fucku KOEI TECMO, logs into PC but doesn't optimize the keyboard and mouse
FUCK U

Nioh has a scant and often confusing plot, but the gameplay.... man, the gameplay...
That unique blend of Diablo and Dark Souls is so strong, so enchanting, that each effortless flex of its oiled-up mechanics makes my heart flutter.

I was surprised because I didn't think I would like it so much, it has a good story, challenging bosses, it's quite difficult and it's a great game for souls like fans, I will definitely start playing the second part in the near future

The combat system carries this game, HARD. It's interesting at first, but as you go on, the game does nothing interesting with it. Other than that, this game is so repetitive. The human enemies are mostly the same but with bigger damage and health bars the further you go. This is so demoralizing, as you font feel like you are getting stronger at all. They don't get new weapons or moves either. The yokai are the only interesting enemy type. They get new variants every now and then. Still not enough to feel substantial. There's some neat bosses here and there, but they are pretty basic overall. What neat potential, only to be very disappointing.

Honestly, very fun game! Its age does show with some of the jank stuff like hitboxes not matching or certain attacks tracking the hell out of you but overall the gameplay feels nice, I do enjoy the variety of weapons you can use and the skill trees made for interesting combinations, I also thoroughly enjoyed the many different guardian spirits the game gives you and the story is really captivating, I love the use of real life events and people to tell some history with a twist!

Very awesome game! This plays like how I wish souls games did.
Enemies are very fast, aggressive, and can beat you quite quickly. However, so are you! It feels like a mix of Ninja Gaiden and souls formula because of this, but given who made this game, that's not surprising at all.

There are some complaints in other reviews about how the post game DLC is locked behind newgame+ due to difficulty tuning.
However, this is not correct from my experience. I was able to complete every mission using what is given to you in normal mode.
Once you finish the main story, it will give you a tip about how the highest rarity items work, which involves using the smith. If you have been ignoring forging, soul matching, and reforging up til now, now is the time to learn it!

So far every combat style I have tried is viable and I like how the game is punishing but fair. I'm still unlocking things nearly 40 hours in and the core game play loop is kind of addicting. The only negative I have is inconsistently near deep water where sometimes my dodge automatically stops me at the edge and other times I just fly off and drown.

8/10

Even with an interesting story and well-written characters, we have certain some points that make Nioh not well played. For me, there are 2 of them: the fact that there isn't a map or some dot that can show us the objective makes losing our ways very easy, and the fact that the game is more difficult in battles doesn't have, at same time, more ways to save our games, like before boss battles

the embodiment of cancer, combat is amazing though

good luck with the first yokai boss that's all folks

Nioh is a phenomenal action game that fuses Japanese history and folklore into one beautiful package that comes with a combat system beyond anything From Software has made to date. Yes even Sekiro. If the "soulslike" tag attached to this game scares you, fear not. The game is about as much of a soulslike as Cuphead is. Aside from a few similar tropes, that existed even before Dark Souls, the game has nothing in common.


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The games extremely satisfying combat makes up for its bad level design. Also I love the setting of the game but the story is a bit nonsensical.

Do you enjoy Souls games where enemies have 360 degree hitboxes on all their attacks in total contravention of anything relating to the animations on their attacks? And where you theoretically get I-frames but don't actually?
Me neither.
Play a reasonable game like Bloodborne or Elden Ring and give this a miss.

The Game is good ,Graphics are well and can be playable on a mid range Pc

Just feels wildly unfair tbh. Even compared to soulslikes, i don't think i've ever seen enemies do quite so much damage in a single hit. It's like it can't decide if it wants to be fast paced action or methodical and punishing. Weirdly think Strangers of Paradise beats it, despite being basically the same game. idk, everyone says the sequel is way better so i'd probably recommend trying that first.

Maybe it's just not for me, but i paid like £8 and regret it. I'd have gone insane if i paid full price tbh

This game has a lot of potential, but fairly bad execution. The combat is interesting, but the rules of combat are inconsistent and stacked against the player.
-Most attacks won't stagger any opponent, while nearly All attacks will stagger the player.
-You're supposed to block instead of dodge most attacks, but your stamina gets obliterated by the enemies you actually need to block.
- The tools and techniques, while various, are largely ineffective towards the end of the game/ NG+, because the effects last 5 seconds or less against bosses. (whereas during most of the original playthrough, the effects last 30 sec - 1 min or more)
-The bosses are just bad. The entire base game of bosses are just not interesting. They all fall the pieces if you rush them, and are unbeatable at a distance. The "last" level has 7 boss fights, 4 of them are reused, and get lower quality as the level goes on.
- The non-boss enemies are re-used constantly, and ALL attack the same: Slow, guarded movement towards player, flurry of attacks, back off to regen stamina, repeat. It kind of ruins combat because Everything feels the same.

The maps are okay-ish. They are all exceedingly simple, and reused a lot. It becomes quite boring to play the game at all after about 80% of the first playthough. After a few hours, you see that it's the same design philosophy over and over, with different set dressing and skins: Fairly linear, side path for shortcut, back to main path, repeat till boss door.

The Diablo-style item system is kind of pointless, because 99% of what you find is useless because the expectation is that you use an armour set. So when you find pieces of anything from outside that set, it's useless garbage because you need to wear the whole set to get the set bonuses. New weapons are also pointless, because you can change the stats on any given item, so there's nothing exciting about getting new gear. You can just re-roll the stats you don't like on any weapon.

The first DLC is very boring, most of the same as the base game, but winter-y. It was so underwhelming that I can't bring myself to finish the others. The bosses in the DLC are mostly just super fast, super strong humans. They are all faster than you, stronger than you, and essentially can't be de-buffed. Enjoy.

In summary, while the amount of combat animations in the game makes it interesting, the Actual, practical implementation of the combat is Very reductive, and repetitive and kinda bad. The enemies, in all regards, are a disappointment. The magic and ninja tools are only useful for a short time before they're ineffective. The maps are all the same, just different texture packs. Difficulty in the game is based around getting one-shot by damage sponges, the lowest effort way to increase "difficulty". 6/10, the more you play it, the worse it gets.

After 20 hours I would gladly recommend game but the longer it goes the worse it gets. Balance is nonexistent. You will start being under leveled to the point you will be short of 100 levels to match recommended level. At this point you either continue and it will feel like playing Elden Ring without upgrading or spend hours farming levels and better gear. Whats worse game already feels very repetitive and boring before that point. Game is no longer skill game, it's just grinding fest with terrible inventory system.

Game is a pain in the ass . It is not for me and I can live with that.

Addictive challenging. The bosses fight always have me at the edge of my seat with sweaty palms. Died several time only to come back again.

Not fun to play.

Had fun with this game, but you take at least 60-99% dmg to your health bar when you get hit by any mob that is not a tiny dude.
Some enemies basically just kill you with any hit, which is... frustrating.
Still with some cheese and easy to use strats these Problems are manageable and the combat smooth and fun.

Awesome game! It kept me engaged throughout. The story is kind of wired but everything else is great. Can be a bit difficult in the beginning e.g. took 100+ tries for one boss. But gets much easier. Didn't complete ng+ cycles but yeah loved playing the game!

Got one-shotted by a haunted umbrella.

10/10

Very great game !!!

This game is complete Bullshit. You will get the best armor and weapons and be over level 100 by endgame and will somehow feel even weaker than you were at the start of the game.

It plays like a demon souls. The first stage was good the rest is a grind.

The people who made this fundamentally do not understand game design.
Good game.

Game's fun, DLC sucks though because it's not accessible right away. I was told you're meant to do NG+ first, level and gear up, another 15+ hours, don't wanna do that. Tried the DLC immediately, I don't care for regular enemies 1 hitting you, but the bosses all do too. Got to the first of the North DLC, I am 60 levels below the recommended level but I mean, come on. I am NOT spending hours farming Amrita. It's either that, or no-hit every single boss going forward. Bored after about 30 mins, and since this is the entire DLC, kind of sad.

dieses game ist so arsch aber es macht so süchtiug digga ka warum

I mean, I hate the fact that enemys can kill me in 1 hit with nothing to do, no dodge, no heal, you just die, but great game any ways.