Board 8 > Nioh 2 is really great!

(+) Yeah! (+)

Would heartily recommend it to anyone who liked the original. I'm about 13 hours in and this is as clean of a case of a "more and better" sequel as I've ever seen. All the new Yokai mechanics are especially a blast to play around with. (It basically has an equivalent of the Aria of Sorrow soul system so you can gain and use the powers of the Yokai you kill, and there's a new counter system for each enemy's most deadly attacks that immensely improves the already excellent flow of combat.)

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What if I haven't played 1. I know people had issues with the first game. Should I just skip it and go to 2?

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I spent about 10 hours with the first Nioh and got sick of the gear management and missions to the same levels over and over. I usually like grindy games and ARPG style loot but it wasn't clicking in this game for me.

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RikkuAlmighty posted...

What if I haven't played 1. I know people had issues with the first game. Should I just skip it and go to 2?

I'm honestly not sure. If you care at all about story, this one seems to be a relatively loosely connected prequel thus far but supposedly the connections get stronger later on.

Gameplay wise I can safely say that playing 1 after 2 would really suck. I'm also not sure how much my experience with 2 thus far has been thanks to benefitting from an entire game of learning the combat. So far 2 feels like a much easier game to me but that may just be because I already know how to play Nioh and only had to wrap my head around the new mechanics and weapons. Nioh has IMO the best combat of any Souls-like but you really have to learn its systems to get anywhere.

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