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story delivery is just boring me to tears and the "historical stuff interwoven with fantasy elements" doesn´t work at all for me
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Nioh 2 |OT| Dark Soul Cores -- out now on PC, remaster available on PS5
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story delivery is just boring me to tears and the "historical stuff interwoven with fantasy elements" doesn´t work at all for me
They are all super strong and it depends on your own playstyle.
But 2 OP builds I've seen are survivors from the first game 1 is a dualblade paralyze boost build and the other is the kunai/shuriken shinobi build.
People will discover way more as time goes on. For progression though I hear switchglaive might have a difficult early/midgame although I've also heard endgame it's owning again.
Working on Enenra. Kills me in two hits and it takes me forever to wear him down. I'm level 18. Ugh. Am I too underlevelled?
He's really hard. I can't remember what level I was myself though so IDK if you are underlevelled or not.
Are you using the pillars to get the water status effect on him? It helps with damage for a bit.
i can only say that the game got easier for me once I switched from the Axe to the Katana
Kunai/Shuriken build melts most things in the game, but you also die to a breeze.
Onmyo builds are probably only OP once you hit endgame, doing Onmyo your first run sounds rough.
Onmyo builds are probably only OP once you hit endgame, doing Onmyo your first run sounds rough.
Are people liking the switchglaive? Personally, I'm loving it as someone who rolled with sword/dual swords in the original game.
Looking forward to the synergy with Omyo as well.
Looking forward to the synergy with Omyo as well.
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That is what I mained through all of Nioh 1 and I'm currently going Switchglaive and Dual Swords. Granted, I tend to use the swords when the going gets tough, but I find the weapon fun to use.
Some of those theories are based off of things that came about during the Edo era, afterward, and are the stuff of fiction. The few first hand accounts of the time that we have, like Luis Frois and Ota Gyuichi's accounts, state that Mitsuhide a) never had a parent that was lost due to Nobunaga's actions, b) never suffered excessive abuse (beyond more demonstrable ribbing like being called "Kumquat", because of his bald head) or c) really took serious issue with Nobunaga's brutality (like the massacre of the monks at Mt. Hiei).
What scant details exist state Mitsuhide was just a conniving, ambitious sort that was always seeking a means to rise to the top. It's very possible the guy could've just been a Starscream lying in wait, in addition to possible other reasons to have a grudge (like Nobunaga showing favor to his other retainers, or fearing that his usefulness to Nobunaga was jeopardized after the Chosokabe clan talks fell apart). But in the end, as stated otherwise, we really don't know!
It's funny - I just finished the main story, and I 100% engaged more with this one's story than the first. Same with pretty much everything else in the game - the enemy variety, the new mechanics, and the level design all easily made it a better game than the first IMO, and I already greatly enjoyed Nioh.
I beat the snake a few days ago and have done nothing the last few days except letting myself get summoned to help other people get over that hump. I 100% have the snake's number now. The only issue I run into is that the person who summons me will die half the time from going overly aggressive. Very easy to get combo'd to death after the tail swipe since that hits so hard.
Game is a lot of fun, though I still think level design/enemy placement is the biggest issue. Cheap ganks wouldn't be an issue if damage also wasn't so high. I get damage is high because of how mobile the player is, but high damage + unfair enemy placement ends up leading to a lot of deaths that feel unavoidable, and that's not fun in this type of game.
Game is a lot of fun, though I still think level design/enemy placement is the biggest issue. Cheap ganks wouldn't be an issue if damage also wasn't so high. I get damage is high because of how mobile the player is, but high damage + unfair enemy placement ends up leading to a lot of deaths that feel unavoidable, and that's not fun in this type of game.
Yeah. Like I said, it's one of history's more compelling wartime/political mysteries. We'll never know.
What's your stat allocation been with it? I've been pretty much fully going heart + courage + magic but I'm not sure if that's good or not.
If you find a gear with enemy sensor it can really help with those enemy placements, I have avoided quite a few of them thanks to it.
Nah that's the level I beat him at and I'm terrible at this. Took me like a dozen tries.
get between him and the pillars, the water that falls when he breaks the pillars will really bring down his Ki. Dash in and try and get 2 hits and dash back out. Keep moving in a circle around the room the entire time.
if I remember correctly, he has a 4 hit combo And 2 hit combo. You can punish him after he's done those combos.
you can also add water magic to your weapon.
lastly, you absolutely have to burst counter when he turns red and does the tornado thing.
Beat it right after I read this reply. I feel like I "knew" all of this info, but I just had to read it all in one place. Thanks!
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I've actually been using it with my Tonfa and Axe build so I haven't touched Magic :p
I think I might respec tonight and try out some magic with it though.
I only just finished world 2, but:
You're a half yokai whose yokai mom got mysteriously murdered when you were a kid and it traumatized you. You reconnect briefly with your human dad at the start of the game, but he gets killed by a horde of yokai sent by your step-sibling for some reason. You then meet a weird merchant guy who is actually some samurai lord asshole being incognito (fun fact he's Ginchiyo's rapist and he's also your comedic side-kick lulz, isn't Team Ninja great), and you both pledge your service to Nobunaga for some reason (whose wife is also your step-sibling... Dosan sure got around), and you help him find amrita because reasons.
I don't know. Can't say that I care. lol
I'm actually kinda enjoying it. I've watched anime and played games about the sengoku era and nobunaga's conquest though. So I can piece together the story and understand what's going on.
With how often this tale is retold though, I guess they just opted out on elaborating on it.
awesome! Yeah we'll all keep sharing tips here. Going to tface that snake boss everyone is having trouble with tomorrow. Should be fun.
After adding 2 points to magic it made a huge difference already. That said I'm loading up on heart, seeing as how it rewards aggressiveness like Ki and melee weapons.
Yes but don't forget that it's okay to take in a slightly weaker new weapon with higher level if the bonuses are good because after maxing out the fam, it'll be stronger
They're hitting all the highlights for sure.
That's said I think people just aren't reading the pre-mission and post-mission texts. I can understand them not knowing who all these famous generals, but it's not hard to follow the story of where this is going.
Does the books cap at 30k or does it keep going up like in 1?
Okay. I'm in region 3 and I have to say I'm getting sick to fucking DEATH of this game's penchant for enemies breaking you from full health and stamina and instant killing you. What the fuck is wrong with the damage scaling in regular missions that enemies can do that so regularly? I'm not in light armor, all of my gear is mid or heavy, but enemies are punching through my defenses and MELTING me with attacks.
It's not even bosses, this is REGULAR enemies. What the fuck.
It's not even bosses, this is REGULAR enemies. What the fuck.
It's bizarre. The story and particularly how it was told must've been one of the most common and loudest complaints about Nioh, yet they still followed the same exact blueprint to the letter.
One of the playtests with an early mission gave me false hope on this. They made Tokichiro seem half interesting, almost like an actual character. But any pretense of following through on that is dropped fast.
Waira is a quintessential Souls fatty. Get behind it (or even better, to the side to avoid the backflop) and it's pretty much helpless. Brute counter is good, you can smack it the moment it tries anything funny.
In the old game they had one of the higest kill rates
Started on the third region. I notice I'm using the Kodama Bazaar frequently to resupply my summoning cups and abusing it so I always have any ally with me. This game seems harder doing the levels solo compared to the first game—makes a big difference having an ally to aggro enemies. I'm really enjoying it overall though—have a pretty good handle on the Odachi and I just abuse the snake summon as much as possible lol Are there any other really good summons you guys have found that work well?
The snake is really good but I really like the Ippon-Datara summon as well.
I read and watched everything up until the end of the fourth region. The game is just largely incoherent / maybe went through a rewrite in the last six months before release or something (I refuse to believe their plan with the main villain was to just have him show up and backstab someone silently every couple of missions, then copy Vergil's exit portal and just in general be unimaginably uninteresting).
Like, you can follow it but... Why would you want to? This is without going into side-missions which inexplicably feature maybe-prophetic visions/hints that are crazy hamfisted and the need to give every guardian spirit its own animated cutscene, no matter how random or unimportant the character giving it to you is.
It's weird KT didn't step in and help Team Ninja out more, because it's not like they haven't done great versions of this material a dozen times before.
