it became the best action game i've ever played in a lifetime.
i always avoided playing nioh because watching it's gameplay was never funny for me, boring gameplay, ass graphics, crazy amount of loot, the numbers showing the damage you caused to an enemy, basically the game never got my attention.
but a few months ago it was with a good price and i decided to give it a try, and boy... oh boy, it was one of the best decisions ive made in my whole life, ill start this by saying that: if you just played a from software game, forget EVERYTHING you learn and try to play nioh the way it should be played, during my first hours here i tried to play like i play bloodborne, elden ring, and the game sucks. just after a couple of hours and multiple dumb deaths i started to learn the stances, onmyo and shinobi mechanics and it became another game. and also, im a simple guy in these kind of games, give me a greatsword or a katana and ill beat the entire game with the same weapon, well, not in Nioh 2, i felt VERY engaged to master any kind of weapons: fists (my favorite oh my god i love it so much), switchglaive, dual katanas, kusarigama, the whole arsenal has preety cool movements and opportunities of combos, i also really loved the KI management mechanics, it's the kind of innovation that makes him so different of so many generic souls-like we have nowadays
i guess that what made me love this game so much was a set of combined mechanics that works pretty well together: combat in general, loot, moveset, replay-factor, builds, soulcores, yokai forms and yokai realm, basically everything involving the gampley combat design
about the difficult: i think this is pretty different for each player, in my playthrough i was able to beat almost all bosses in the first try (thanks to the glorious fists, best weapons in the game), even the final boss, and i dare to say that the final boss has a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ cool design and variety of movesets, pretty enjoyable fight, but i think it could be more challenging. anyway, the boss fights are not the real challenge of the game, in my experience the challenges were the path to the boss, beat the boss is easy, but find the boss is pretty challenging in some missions
although i loved the game, there are some issues that are a bit annoying, the graphics/visuals are pretty ugly and outdated in my opinion, also everywhere you look a lot of aliasing will explode in the screen, i solved this using reshade, it really makes the game looks better, another thing that bothered me was the delay loading assets, dude sometimes you look to the left and see a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ door rendering in front of you, then you look right and after that you look left and you will see the SAME door rendering again, the game has ♥♥♥♥ performance and I had big frame rate drops by just rolling with my character into flower vases sometimes, the story it's also not that catchy but i really do not care for storytelling in this kind of games
so, even complaining about the above issues, i'd still give this game a 10/10, the combat is really addictive, after you get used to the mechanics it's pretty hard to stop hehe, i myself beated the last boss yesterday but will keep playing cause still got 3 DLCs and also the depths, definitely worths the money
