Nioh

Greetings from Lithuania.

While i'm not the biggest fan "Dark Souls" series but i really liked "Bloodborne" i was and still am simply blown away by "Nioh". Its one of the most involving games i've played, am playing and will be playing in years. It has amazing world, amazing action, terrific skills, tools and moves witch enriches this amazing game. You can do the same missions all over again and have some great loot. Bu the most important it feels unique - when you step into whatever mission, its hard to put it down.

Overall, "Nioh" is a hard game, but its highly rewording. It has terrific world and game play to interact with it. Its one of the most amazing games I've ever played.

Just like I said in the title, this game is another Dark Souls rip off. Team Ninja needed to make a few extra bucks so they took the DS game mechanics and changed the setting to a 16th century japanese environment, just to make it look different. Too bad they also tried to make it unnecessarily harder (e.g. bosses that one-shot kill you, limited summonings, etc...). The result is an unbalanced Dark Souls clone. If you have money to spend get Bloodborne, you won't be disappointed.

So this game's combat is very very good. The bosses are amazing, the areas are amazing, i kinda like the mission system, it looks ver cool and the theme slaps. Only a few things are missing. Every time when you enter a new regio you need to find kodamas to increase your healing. So if you are in the first mission in a region most of the first missions arent bad. But that with the forest one (forgot the name) is hell. The area is prerty tough and the boss is pretty hard too. Needs a little bit of work there and the other thing i dont like is that you need to switch weapons sooooo many times. I just want to use a weapon with a cool moveset that i like. But you need a new weapon or a fully upgraded weapon for the next mission. Needs a bit of work there too. And also that last mission with thos 7 really tough enemies in 1 room sucks. I still recommend it but just beware of these things

I must admit that after Dark Souls, I wasn't able to adjust to playing this game for a while, and after beating first 3-4 bosses, I quit. Only months later I decided to revisit Nioh and realized I was very unfair not to give this game a chance, because it's easily the best of 2017, one of the best games ever made, an absolute must- have. A game you certainly need to get used to enjoy, therefore take my advice and don't be fooled by the beginning. Consider completing all the submissions before the main ones, since it will give you plenty of cool weapons and armor, and most importantly amrita (the analogue of souls here). Just like in Dark Souls it's important that you are as agile as possible, so make sure you improve the relevant stats. In fact try to level up as much as you can. Speaking of which, although Nioh was inspired by and is the reminiscent of great Dark Souls, it is very different, including the level up system. The combat is amazing once you figure it out. The setting is pure Japanese, it's beautiful but some may need to adapt to the atmosphere, so you might want to see Ran or other Kurosawa masterpieces before playing Nioh, after all it's based on master's unfinished script. Does it live up to the hype? Oh yes. I think Kurosawa would be proud. It's now one of my top favorites that I will be frequently revisiting and goes directly to my 'Japan rocks' list. The bosses are tough and pretty hard. Just how stupid I was to quit playing Nioh back then! I'm really ashamed I thought bad of this game before. And this is where I will address the creators of Nioh "Dear Nioh Team, if you come across any of my negative feedback that I haven't been able to track back and delete, please forgive my foolishness, you have done a miraculous job. Playing Nioh, I feel so happy I'm studying Japanese now, soon I will be able to play it with English subtitles off. Also I would love to say huge special thanks to Yûgo Kanno, the brilliant composer of this wonderful game, the Ogress boss fight theme is one of the most touching and emotional pieces I have ever heard, I have been listening to it for 2 days now and am listening to it as I'm typing this review. God bless you, guys and God bless Japan!"

Nioh is a third-person Action/Adventure Fantasy RPG of the same style as Demon's Souls, Dark Souls, Bloodborne, Sekiro, etc. But from a different dev. You play as a man who, in order to further his quest, must fight and kill countless bandits, samurai, and Yokai, which are Japanese Demon like creatures/spirits. Be warned this game is VERY difficult. Even harder than the Souls games. But it is a very fun, challenging, satisfying and enjoyable experience. It does feel unfair at times and has really rage inducing Boss fights and certain sections. Overall I'd give Nioh an 8.5/10. Really great and would recommend getting The Nioh Collection on PS5 that includes both games and all DLC.