71
Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? (sh.itjust.works)
submitted 1 year ago by to c/patientgamers@sh.itjust.works
68 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 3 points 1 year ago (4 children)

How hard exactly are the Nioh games? I'm playing through the Ninja Gaiden series at the moment so I guess I'm on a bit of a Team Ninja kick, which has made me look at them again. But from what I've heard they're perhaps even more prohibitively difficult than Ninja Gaiden.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 4 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Having played very little Ninja Gaiden, I don't think they're similar at all save from being 3rd person games. Nioh is much closer to the Souls formula, which slower combat, stamina consumption on actions and a demanding care on facing enemies, with the added complexity (though not necessarily added difficulty) of weapon stances and combos, skill trees, colored loot, and a Devil Trigger-like skill.

    If you're going to try one, you should expect something more akin to Dark Souls + Diablo lootfest than the action romp that is Ninja Gaiden

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    Oh interesting! I knew about the different weapons and combos and coming from Ninja Gaiden that is appealing but the Diablo style loot piñata gameplay I was not expecting. Not sure it makes it more appealing to me though, sadly. I had hoped it was more of a Souls-meets-Ninja-Gaiden.

    I'm still a bit scared, even though Ninja Gaiden have an even more brutal reputation than Dark Souls I found NGB and NG2 manageable whereas DS3 and Elden Ring felt like just on the border of what I can handle, sometimes going over it. Maybe we're all just given to different types of games?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 2 points 1 year ago (1 child)

    Overall, I find Nioh to give you far more tools than the usual Souls game, but also not demand as much mastery of them. There's still some punishing mechanics (the only game that I've enjoyed doing the Exp recover after dying was Lies of P) and obtuse stats (even more when you consider the loot piñatas), but its still a game where I can go "All right, I don't want to deal with this" and use the Yokai transformation to melt a boss' HP.

    Of course, at the end of the day, to each its own, so if Souls+Diablo gameplay doesn't sound appealing to you, its an easy skip.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •