#PWARComplains I over-exaggerate some things to get the point across. The long term RPG side of the game just isn't as great as it should have been, least not as fun as it was in Nioh 1. They made modest steps to expand the game, imo. Timestamps: 0:20 Reception/Activity Problems 2:10 Story Problems (not THAT important, but still worse then Nioh 1) 3:55 Lack of new skills. Limited expansion of combat or creativity 5:02 Lack of interesting Set Bonuses 6:10 Yokai Shift boring as AF 7:42 DLC Difficulty balance is BAD. Major effects/stat effectiveness issue 11:18 3-Player co-op is snooze fest cuz of previous point 11:50 They potentially held back new scroll change to pad content. they had 5 months to put it in but took an additional month post-dlc to add it... 12:22 Nice scroll update...playerbase much active... 12:33 Star effects shouldn't be this rare (Again, cuz of point 7:42) 14:33 Game should have had legendaries/uniques for its grind, not star effects/graces 15:38 Soul Cores WAY too grindy. 18:11 TLDW, list of changes i want to see before the game ends/dies...

Nioh 2 biggest issues Recycling content Randomizing mechanics Nerfing builds Loot drop/grinding Also nioh 1 (the abyss...basically the endgame is very sh#tty)

too many rng involved just to make a decent build.

1000% agree. as a casual player I did everything right, leved up, min/maxed, but damage is crap. this is my biggest problem. After I min/max, I should feel powerful, but damage is still crap. And I hate having to buff/debuff just to get decent damage.

- New tempering material to temper star effects - Temper purity & confusion - New shrine option to temper soul cores - Forge Accessories - X3 accessories from NG+ as Yasakani always takes up a slot - x20 divine fragments for guaranteed divine weapon with star attack damage (stat) - x30 to forge Ethereal gear or have Ethereal fragments allowing for Ethereal forging of equipment - I love your idea about legendary weapons, guy from the teahouse could forge them using glory or farm from bosses - Max x5 kills for a bosses skill & or smithing texts; if multiple texts then all texts drop by x20 kills max - Pistol/Musket or cross bow using one L2 shot for a counter a'la Bloodborne instead of a burst counter - More hair & skin options in Character Creation - Change colour of armour & weapon sheaths - Bring back living weapon - Sleeping dogs/urban reign unarmed melee combat martial arts using the 3 stances - x3 weapons instead of x2 or have unarmed as the third option using the point from above - Have sword counter more Yokai, in fact more Yokai counters in general from melee weapons The list goes on. The possibilities for this game are immense, I feel Ghost of Tsushima stole some of the limelight but that still doesn't change the fact that Nioh 2 feels like it should've been a DLC for Nioh and not it's own game.

Personally, my only issue is the lack of available hair options. Face and body and all that stuff is so in depth with so many options but the hairstyles are a bit limited in terms of what you can do.

These were all great ideas and I would like to see ALL of them come to fruition.

I think the biggest issue with the gameplay is that it's still stuck in a limbo between being an action game and a Diablo RPG. Because they're trying to balance for both, concessions and compromises have to be made to facilitate this balance. I think this puts Team Ninja in a bad place because they're trying to effectively merge two opposing gameplay ideals - oil and water. Looking at Dark Souls, those games don't have great combat mechanics, and yet people are still so enamored with them that they even convince themselves that the combat is some kind of unparalleled enigma. This is obviously not so (in the slightest) but the simple combat mechanics in those games help facilitate the RPG systems more than the complex mechanics found in Nioh. Personally, though, it doesn't bother me because I don't engage with the RPG systems in Nioh. I treat as an 90% action game, 10% RPG.

Thank you for addressing this! Team ninja please pay attention to all of this!! Hate having to rely on all these debuffs just to hit half -@$$ damage numbers. Taking away all the fun factor and the gear we spend hrs grinding for hardly doing any base damage! Man I hope they fix all of this..losing interest already and we still have 2 dlc to go 🤦‍♂️. And the cores omg just be able to fuse whatever to inherit what you want easier. They can do so much better here..Nioh 1 definitely more fun.

The use of initial game sales does not paint a complete picture. Nioh1 sold really well on PS4 originally because it was a PS4 exclusive - there was no reason to believe it was going to leave the PS4. Now that everyone knows the devs are willing to port their game to PC, I think there is a very significant number of people that think, "Nioh2 looks great! I've just got to wait until it comes to PC!" And comparing Nioh to Dark Souls' KZfaq view counts is also ridiculous - you are comparing a game that is currently only on one console to a game that has seen original and remastered edition releases spanning 6 different consoles. The direct comparison of view counts is only applicable if the target audience size for both are the same, which they aren't. Your video gives good critique on the story and characterization, don't bring that down with a shoddy view count and sales comparison.

My video was in the beginning lmao On a real not tho, I feel as if nioh 2 can use a lot if not most of the things you said in this video. On top of that, I feel like they can make the game more multiplayer oriented if you wanted to play with friends. A 4 player dungeon that provides endgame gear would be a cool addition. But overall I have high hopes for this game and I don’t want to see this game fail. If only they would listen to their community....

I min/maxed around 12 builds before DLC. DLC release I did a Benz/purity build and your Grappler.. which are both Benz really. I just can’t save scum anymore or sudama roll. It is just annoying as hell.

i goddamn agree with everything you just said!

I totally agree! While I still love Nioh 2, I miss living weapon and I don't get the point of nerfing it that bad from Nioh 1 to 2. Anyway, i'm still looking forward for the upcoming contents, the game is cool nonetheless

I wish you could get yoshitsunes grapple with the dual swords. That would’ve been satisfying.

I overall agree with this video. Personally, I want to enjoy the combat, the swordplay, not cycle to some range attacks and buffs and debuffs. However, that does not work right now. Further more, light armor is just bad. You might play perfect and awesome at some time, but you are going to get hit, especially if you do not always play as if Nioh was a stealth game. So .. we needa see how everything pans out. But I am rather worried.

A couple things: From the perspective of someone who has played this franchise ever since Nioh 1's beginning, I have never thought that "I don't deal enough damage" was a problem. I like experimenting with the game's mechanics and exploiting certain aspects of the game. I found that Nioh 2 is an enjoyable experience as it is. Yokai Abilities have added a lot to the game, and have made its combat exhilarating. I believe that damage could be amped in general, yes. But I think it's a bit unrealistic to add 30% more damage on Way of the Demon if you have max level stats. There could be less focus on damage in general since the game tends to focus more on "I will disable my opponent's Ki Regeneration to then stunlock him into oblivion while he is poisoned and on fire." I believe they wanted you to play smarter, not harder. We tend to focus so very much on "Why can't I do 9,999,999,999 damage?" when the fun of the game also comes from its gameplay?

The game is awesome to be honest, but the minmaxing is kinda worthless and grinding for ages not rewarding enough to stay with Nioh 2

What’s sad is that in Nioh 1 Ethereals felt more like Ancient Legendary pieces from Diablo 3. A great upgrade, but it wouldn’t make or break your build until you started doing crazy high Torments. And even then crazy high torment was more about skill and game knowledge than gear. With the way Dream of the Demon is, I know Ethreal Gear will be damn near required for the DLC missions. The damage is too low, and if enemy HP does another jump the players will have no other option. Unless they readjust stat weights, only the greatest gear will suffice.

I was really hoping we would get more demon forms for sure. But it doesn’t seem like it. 😞

After beating Dotn and starting depths I just had to give up on this game because of the stupid RNG on literally everything build related. Perfect rolls should be hard but just getting anything remotely useable is way to rare. Stupid useless graces/sets, nerfed damage but can get 2 poked from a skeleton, same reused maps. It’s just not fun past DOTD. If anyone reads this, get your platinum trophy and move onto a different game don’t waste your time.

There's been mention of a tower climb replacement for the Abyss which sounds sort of cool

I was having tons of problems with RNG in this game to the point of me leaving the game and tried voicing them on reddit, but the Nioh 2 sub doesn’t really take criticism at all so i’m glad someone pointed this stuff out

One of the things that disappointed me about the souls cores is only a few of them have good moves.

You realize the game only exists on PS4 right and the souls series is on all platforms?

I spent the early part of the shut down playing Nioh 1 from Samurai up to WotN Abyss before I got a little tired of it. Going into Nioh 2 I'm really not feeling the drive to do all the grinding again, and then I learned there is even more systems that need grinding! I've put it down until all the dlc is out at this point I think. I've gone back to playing Dark Souls 3 Champion's Ashes mod. Your videos are enjoyable and helpful. This video really shows how much thought you've put into this.

Thank you! ALL my gear is at +20 and level 170 and 180 and my dual swords are 180 20+ and I'm doing shit damage because I don't do all that debuffing and buffing shit, aside from nerfed poison which is seemingly not doing much damage anymore...

I got my weapons and gear to +20 and that was enough. Just could not see a reason to keep playing. I will come back for the next DLC but really how long will it take to run the gauntlet once more? A week? Also, after all the grinding to +20 my gear, soul matching for hours and hours, ethereal seems like, why bother. I am finding it less fun than the first game. I don't know.

I've ran out of things to do in this game and it is still a long time until the next dlc. My first Nioh game and I do love it but what you say about ethereals worry me and I completely agree with your opinion on buffs.

For once I agreed. But I have a better mention. When u do the blacksmith. You can choose whatever you want with it cames to equipment skills. But its required certain materials from enemies and etc. But the cost is high... and the second mention with u do the stroll or abyss mission the chance of star skill effect is greatly higher but depending on the time you finish it

No one interested in PVP?! I need a PVP mode where I can feel the joy of destroying other player's broken meta build characters with good old skill, please.

I share the same thought. Nioh 2 is increasingly being a tiring and sickening game. My impression is that it looks more like a Monster Hunter World with yokais, long and boring battles, where there is no build that makes the difference (that pride of creating and having results) in the end, everyone ends up having 99% identical builds ( only with different skins) with the same function ,,,,,, CRUSH BUTTONS ,,,,, I think it is faster to defeat a monster in Monster Hunter than in Nioh 2 (even more if it is 3 players) T T

I miss my Iai quickdraw 1 shot build😔 now if i wanna do atleast decent dmg with it i gotta pop 10+ buffs🤦🏽‍♂️

Good video I also felt like every dlc did nothing but nerf my sets & I have been playing since day 1 it’s kinda sad cuz when I first played Nioh I literally couldn’t stop playing even after I hit NG but with Nioh 2 it feels like they dropped the ball heavily & just continue to do so

after finishing nioh 1 i was good on nioh for life. played nioh 2 beta just cause i was curious and they just added a shitton of new mechanics and buttons to press but didnt fix MANY of the biggest issues that the first game has.

Not a single mention of buffing kunai damage. I am starting to doubt your commitment to the cause, brother.

5:05 All the graces that will come soon: ("How did you unlock?" Code digging) Grace of Amaterasu Grace of Susano Grace of Tsukuyomi Grace of Takemikazuchi Grace of Kagutsuchi Grace of Shinatsuhiko Grace of Oyamatsumi Grace of Owatatsumi Grace of Futsunushi Iznagi's Grace Izanami's Grace Omoikane's Grace Okuninushi's Grace Sakuyahime's Grace Takeminakata's Grace Tajkarao's Grace Sukunahikona's Grace Ninigi's Grace Kushinadahime's Grace Ame-no-Uzume's Grace Sarutahiko's Grace Mjagatsuhi's Grace (I'm sorry to say, but the ethereal armor set bonuses are all coming back the same way. 3 pce bonus will be Melee damage + 12.4%)

I feel like KT implemented to alot of stuff on nioh then add some new stuff but ended up not knowing what to do to improve/innovating on nioh 2 due to alot of stuff they add especially when it's rough to fixed the flaws.

Kodama bazaar trading is possibly patched since 1.15. I haven't been able to repeat yet and the overall quality in the bazaar is abysmal atm.

Because people are trash at nioh and they hate on it. The only bad thing about nioh is the RNG

Youkai skills are just about negligible as Youkai Shift imo. They alone are not enough for me to invest in fusions, I'm practically in it for the Sensors. Too much fodder skills that amount to jack and shit; few, if only none of them scale off any of your stats. Only a handful have good utility and status stacking, and more of them COULD be useful in PVP, but we don't have that yet. And Noppoppu is the only core with an obvious and useful buff. This leave us with at least three damaging soul cores with rewarding effects (Otakemaru, Yatsu, etc.) Back in my first playthrough, I wanted Magatsu Warrior's projectile slashes to feel super baddass, but they're such peashooters. I had hoped for Ubume to be a very solid ki damage skill, yet she pushes the enemy back too much for that be handy. I know some players had this feeling. Make the effects of Youkai skills more obvious and rewarding. Make them scale of your stats (or their color type matching), give them buffs, or amplify their damage at zero ki. Just asking for a few more skills to be augmented so that they'd be more inciting on their own, not just as a means to stack on status on stack on status on stack on status AND THEN do the things we want to do for damage. Just a few examples: -Sukuna's duality of elements should mean that they should scale on Magic and amplify their damage to confused enemies. -Onyudo becomes a summon-type and does a bit more ki damage. -Karasu Tengu sustains its vacuum effect for more anima. Can suck in zero-ki bosses (can't remember if it does that normally). -Ubume tumbles humans on the active frames of their quick attacks, countering them and causing more ki damage. Only the first hit of this skill applies that effect. -Kamaitachi scales on Dexterity. Apply the faster movement buff for a short time (does not stack with Tiger-Running scroll).

Given their track record, I doubt fixes, but more nerfing sprees because as Aristotle once said, "Dats how dey do."

I spent COUNTLESS hours making onmyo build min maxing and then I saw the damage of Water Shikigami 3-4 k damage.... the boss in the Underworld last levels heals for around 1-2 k with stone of penance... Tickle much? Still get one shotted by them. Im tired. Tired of making those builds only for them to turn out utter joke.

Above all the splitstaffs animations are so sick

I deleted this game. Im not grinding my ass off for the perfect build just so it can be nerfed or useless in the next update and have to start all over. Thats the same crap Ubisoft does with The Division. Im done with games like this.

dude, i would like to have kashas whip as a weapon, or at least the sick yoyo trick she does as a red burst move, they should of had you pick different variations of attacks with the soul cores, like besides ippons flipping hammer smash maybe you want the variation with the sword doing that drill move.

i just have to agree 100% i play the game everyday and you dont go anywhere without 0 ki or confusion it make me wonder how is it going to be for future release ( sorry for the english)

1-about Yokai Shift i think they have plan for it and someone in the game will teach you new skill in Dojo but they are too late ( no reason to use yokai shit) when i saw Yokai shift i throut it will be like nioh 1 boss ( otani yoshitsugu and ishida mitsunari ) they use yokai shift !!! Human bosses in nioh 2 with gurdian sprit all have living weapon 2-no new skill in DOTD to make every weapon playable and no good damge you need ton of Debuff and buff and most annoying buff soul purge 3- Farming method is annoying and take too much time why i can't Temper it with 2 Fable umbrcite or somthing 4-only adding 1 new weoapon ?? they need to add 2 to 3 weapons 5 no unique skill and no good bounses set like you said 6- more option in character creation and you say alot of thing and i agree with you thanks for the video

Honestly, the game really does feel the same and it sucks because I burned out on the first game so I came into this one pre burned out...

So I finally caved in and bought the game, was waiting for PC version or at least confirmation that it's coming up until this point. One thing that has already hit me is the insane nerfs made to a lot of player abilities as a result of some OP builds that the devs decided to nerf for some reason, meaning A LOT of the builds on youtube are just not functional anymore. Also the game is simply harder since so much stuff is nerfed which is making it more difficult to get into. Developers with heavy nerf bats have the ability to just destroy their own games in the name of balance. It's fine if you nerf things a tiny bit, but these guys just overdo it so much it's insane.

I think a large part of the reason Nioh 2 underperformed was a lack of advertising. Literally the first ad I saw for the game was only a day before it released. I went to GameStop to buy Darksiders Genesis, saw the ad for Nioh 2, preordered Nioh 2 the day before release instead.

This video actually gave me hope. I do farm in this game, but not excessively and I am currently on NG+. This is the most boring experience ever as I just simply tear through everything like it's a tutorial for a kids' game. I was wondering if getting to NG++ is even worth my time, but if it's supposed to be hard again, I can't wait :D

11:37 "Who is this for?" Holy crap... never played this game in multiplayer, but it looks like it's for people which enjoy Monster Hunter. In these games, fights take between 5 to 10 minutes (sometimes less, most of the time more). Looks like "Nioh 2" wanted to be another "Toukiden" title...

Yeah they should also allow for more customization for the main character and the yokai form.

Chaining Kunai/Shuriken to multiple enemies would be amazing

In 2023, is the bad grind still in game?

I disagree on almost everything. What game needs is massive nerfs. If you forgot, let me remind you that in Nioh 1 there are only 2 endgame builds that exists: dragon ninja and one shot living weapon. Why? Because of damage and buff stacking. Developers should simply nerf buffs and some values of different abilities, like versatility. Enemies need some balancing though, some have too much ki and I absolutely don't want the last two difficulties to turn into one shot city again, making medium and heavy armour irrelevant like in 1. Agree on skill variety though.

What about being able to yokai shift out of enemy grabs

PWAR I'd rather watch your videos then play N2 these days as it's more fun. I consider your channel tops for all N2 content and wholeheartedly agree with your thoughts. Hope you get to create more EPIC content, hopefully with better N2 updates. Team Ninja listen up!!!

Solo play I’m actually pretty op but 3 player co op, that enemy ki and hp holy damn lol

I could see why these issues would be more magnified for someone like yourself, getting out build videos and whatnot. Not the case for me though, I didn't bother with graces all that much or star effects. Still play the game and not feeling burned out yet, but when I do, I will just go back to Monster Hunter until the next DLC lol

Well let's not exaggerate, noone cared about kelly.

Not a story game just like the first one. Sigh these KZfaqrs miss the point every time. What’s new

I am one of the players who holds back from op builds, and this update has really ruined the game for me, the damage I am dealing is so low that I don’t think it was possible to be this low before the update, and I don’t wanna spend hours grinding, I have other priorities, I really hope things change soon, I love Nioh and would hate to see it fail, but that is inevitable if they don’t listen to us...

I can't beat anything easily without buffs/debuffs... It's not fun at all, no matter how my gear and cores are refined over the course of weeks, I get bitch slapped without buffs/debuffs... It's frustrating and I feel like am wasting my time.

I dun want to grind. I'm ok. My built is defensive so taking quite some times to kill a boss but survival is the forte

Storywise I'm not with you. I never cared for a single character in Nioh 1. I also didn't care for a single Nioh 2 character except for Hideyoshi (Hideyoshi is the only decent written character in the whole Nioh franchise). And if you don't know anything about japanese history both games make absolutely no sense. But Nioh isn't about the story. It's about the gameplay. And both games do extremely well in that part. Also Nioh 2 definitely has balancing problems (for example the ones you mentioned), but it is still lightyears better than the first Nioh. Nioh 1 was completely broken in many parts.

I don't watch the videos because I don't have the game yet. Once they put out the PC version, I'll be all over it.

The game devs nerfed the shit out of fun factor in Nioh 1. Moving on to Nioh 2, it's going to be the same. It's just pain with no fun now.

The fictional history aspect of nioh is what bogs down the game. If they made an entire world based on japanese mythology and focusing in ficcional characters since the beginning, it world flow so much better. Also, Nioh is hardcore, but sometimes its too much hardcore, what drives players from it. I love Nioh, but I wonder if they went too deep in the difficulty for most players, even DS fans.

I miss all the human bosses from Nioh 1. There was something so satisfying about practicing and getting good at parrying and timely guards and then using those against human bosses. I find that mechanic to be somewhat lost in Nioh 2, most human enemies are weak or you aren't able to parry and some just get backup instantly without even time for a final blow.

They implemented a better feature to allow a additional visitor witch helped me with the 2nd boss lol

Needs more viability for more builds. And for that matter better build designs trying to get people to do different styles of fighting with each weapon.

Great points that you've made. My biggest complain is on the gears. I spent 3 days to roll star active skill damage on all my items but end up I'm doing the exact same things, debuff, confusion to make some better damage. Feel like totally wasted of my time. What I really want is I can either do bunch of buff, debuff, confusion to do great damage with rubbish items or I do nothing but great damage with awesome set. Same to different weapon types. For now, weapon types make no different. Everyone using the same buff and debuff, your weapon of choice doesn't really matter.

As a Soulsborne fan i find it extremely difficult to get into Nioh 2. All those overbearing systems to track and care about, RNG loot etc - it is worse than most MMO's. Completely ruins the Souls like experience for me. It isn't an action game, but a bad numbers rpg, and i intensely dislike that.

I know there’s no revenant trading in DotD, but how do we trade in DotS? I guess I mean how can I initiate trade with other players. Also can you trade anything just it will be DotS levels? For example can I bring higher level gear and it probably gets nerfed level wise but keeps all of its special effects or most of its special effects?

My issues with Nioh is the copy and pasted maps and the same boss fights with slight differences in fight patterns from Nioh 1. Stinks of laziness from devs. Enemies need to be nerfed in terms of power armouring through every combo or skill move you do. Yokai shift needs to have at least some sort of staggering effect to allow me to actually inflict damage without enemies or bosses just spamming through everything i do and killing me. Plus make human HP untouchable while in shift form. My overall review is that team ninja focused to heavily on being flashy rather than being practical like they did in Nioh 1 with living weapon . Feels as though the developers got really lazy on Nioh 2 and were more focused on making a profit. I dont feel motivated to keep playing through more difficult playthroughs either like i did when i platinumed Nioh 1. Feeling burned out and bored already with Nioh 2.

I just wanna say I was doing pretty bad damage on the final boss of the dlc on w o samurai even though I had good damage. No cheese or grinding for stuff but like 1500dmg+ weakness+Confusion. I’d rather have that since in nioh 1 I intentionally nerfed myself pretty bad but idk about the average player

Thank you for sharing your opinions and thoughts

Well these days even someone else I know said it got boring, because of the over complicated upgrade system that takes forever to upgrade, and trash item drops and just overall clutter now with stone of penance and added souls that you can fuse, and most of them are useless just take up clutter space.

I agree with all of this. I have just started playing this after Nioh 1. The reward your get for your build/grind is almost meaningless.

You are so right Bro! Especially DLC's having new content - and the Armor, Weapons and accessories built with hours/days of grinding for star effects should have more damage in higher difficulties, otherwise, what is the point of playing higher difficulties - the sense of Accomplishment has to be there. The last thing Team Ninja should be doing is putting players off, as no matter how much time they spend in Grinding, the builds are not fun or overpowered and just get frustrated and give up. I hope they listen to your comments/recommendations.

I love Nioh. Platinum Nioh and Nioh2, likely 500h+ between the two. I would also love to see: - item management improvement. It's such a chore! Better filtering and classification, something like a "box" to put itens with orange inheritables im saving for a new set, a wardrobe so i will never mix my set itens and accidently destroy them - soul core management and interface in general as well - same for demon scrolls - improve revenant trading as well... - make shuri/kunai relevant again - bring back the ultimate living weapon build I'll be there for the next xpacs and Nioh3 fo'sure... im just asking that you improve my experience. Thats all. Ty.

agree i so agree with you about base stats. As a lousy player i think we should be rewarded for grinding ..yes i am not proud.

Way of the Demon was way too easy. I didnt really grind. I had zero fear of death and did pleanty of damage. All i did was combine golden boy with the elemental damage grace set and stack increase damage done on poisoned enemies and electric buffs.

The only complaint I have is the amount of rng it takes to get a certain piece of gear with a certain grace and 3 star effects that’s good. It’s just way too much for someone that doesn’t have like 10 hours a day to grind. I think they should make the buff easier tho, not taking them away as that’ll make people think they’re nerfed, make the buffing take less time, it’ll be way better not having to spend 10-20 second buffing before starting a boss encounter

You described everything I felt exactly. I saw the potential but felt empty with every feature.

Completly agree especially with the graces. If there not gonna let us rev trade for graces at least let us go to the blacksmith put on a grace of our choice on a piece of gear that doesnt have a set bonus obviously then we grind to get the star effects on that piece. Appreciate the video dont see alot of people making videos on this topic

Wonderful analysis.

All these are great points. For me personally nioh 1 was just so much more satisfying to build your character to the point where you can iai for 999,999 but in nioh 2 you put hours and hours in just to hit a number you were already hitting in Dream of the Strong. I also feel that Confusion and Grapple are the only options for high numbers which is just shit tbh

I really hope the dev team sees this video. As a matter of fact just hire Project to help with ideas with Nioh 2.

I spent about 2 months away from the game and there are already so many new things added. At this point I dont feel like grinding until they have fully release all of the content.

Right from the get go I could tell nioh 2 was a lazy sequel. I am in the massive minority but I prefer nioh 1 to nioh 2. Even without the dlc expansions, nioh 1 was so much fun and had high replayability. Nioh 2 just isn't what I was expecting... Adding Stuff like a mere 3 Yokai shifts and then taking out all 20+ unique guardian spirit transformations screams of being lazy and not creative.

Looking again to this video after completed DLC 2. The story is somehow even more confusing. I'm even less attached to the new characters introduced then in DLC 1. Hell I don't even remember their names correctly. We still don't have a proper way to get the graces and star effects we would like instaed of RNG. They even took out save scrum method. The only thing I enjoyed are the new enemies. They are actual new enemies instaed of reskins like in the DLC1. But that's not enough, it feels so much work just try out new builds. I'm still sticking to your grapple build and grappling the 7 senseis for amrita and gears to upgrade everything to 190+30. Oh and btw, one new grace is still featuring versatility :)) nice

seeing your ideas for LEGENDARY weapons made me very excited, but unfortunately I'm burned out for now. too much grind, too little damage done. hope this gets acknowledged by the devs, if any chance.

Endgame is boring. The point of endgame is to try out new builds, but this game's ridiculous RNG and materials requirements make that a boring grind. Once all missions are beaten there needs to be a reward, better loot drops, something to give incentive for replaying the same missions over and over.

What i miss the most, is the ability to be OVERPOWERED as fuck! I got sad that i couldn't break the game at the end of the game. I waited patiently for the DLC and i still can't break the game. Don't get me wrong, i've spent thousand of hours on Nioh 1, and a good hundred hours on Nioh 2, but still, i couldn't find an enjoyable build to play with; i don't want to spend a minute or two using buffs and debuffs, i want to go ham from the get'go. I don't know, i try to love Nioh 2, but it's hard... it doesn't appeal to me like Nioh 1. I used to made videos for Nioh 1 on my channel(nothing too flashy) and was hyped to resume when Nioh 2 arrived but eh... the game is not as fun.

I had to listen back three times when you said damage was nerfed, that literally blows my mind.

It's a shame that Nioh 2 was played by only 1M players (gamstat.com). I enjoyed the game, but I found Nioh 1 level design and end game better. Can't wait for the next DLC.

Nioh 2 is my first one and I haven’t put the game down since I bought it. I’m having fun sure but this game does have its problems. It being super grindy on top of rng bending you over really makes it annoying to gear how you want. The game’s story as it’s presented expects you to be familiar with Japanese history so unless you are, all these characters and themes go over your head. I’m looking forward to all the new stuff since I really enjoyed the Tengu’s Disciple but I don’t look forward to my stuff being invalidated when I finally got my build to how I like it. Hopefully the new dlc adds some cool stuff but only time will tell.