Raising the genre’s high bar, Nioh 2 runs and plays beautifully. But perhaps you can have too much of a good thing.
What is it? Samurai Dark Souls mixed with Team Ninja’s weapon devotion.
Expect to pay £50/$50
Developer Team Ninja
Publisher Koei Tecmo
Reviewed on AMD Ryzen 7 1700X, Gigabyte RTX 2080 Super, 32Gb RAM
Multiplayer? 2-3 (online)
Link Official site
Stumbling into the first boss after slashing through a riverside village beset by demons, I begin to chip away at a screen-dominating health bar with my looted purple ninja knife. Only a little falls off before it roars, plunging me into a dark world and then summarily killing me with its saw-bladed cleaver. Sure. I’ve played Dark Souls. I know you’re not meant to be able to beat the first boss. This is just flavour. And then I respawn, and realise that, no, this is just the start of the mountain to come.
