why has Team Ninja been unable to replicate this
fluke. Many such cases
they tried different thingsstranger of paradise is good at least
>>681533617Sop was just as good to me.
>>681533617All their new games are literally Nioh clones.
As is so often the case with games, they accidentally made something good, but have no fucking idea what it was about it that made it good.
>>681533617Rise of the Ronin comes very close but its boss fights never reach the same highs as Nioh 2’s.
>>681533617They are afraid of being accused of laziness if they just keep building on 2 the way 2 built on 1. Also last game before we started getting "Type A, Type B" shit.
>>681533617Because the A-team was making RotR for 4 years instead.
>>681533617Have they tried yet?
>>681533617Because it was a fluke; even the first Nioh was Lords of the Fallen tier
>>681533617i honestly think wo long plays smoother and has a generally cooler aesthetic
>>681533918And none of them really hit the same way Nioh 2 does. Well maybe Rise of the Ronin does but I haven't played it
WoLong and Rise of Ronin intentionally decreased the depth in the combat, for different reasons.WoLong was due to them chasing Sekiro's success, and thus making a simple rhythmic parry-centric title with limited offensive options. Rise of the Ronin was them focusing on the open world and story/presentation (over the actual combat system), perhaps as a reaction to the domestic popularity of Ghost of Tsushima. SoP, meanwhile, was courting FF fans over their core audience.They simply haven't attempted to iterate or outdo themselves. Nioh itself was Team Ninja injecting character action lifeblood into the stale souls formula, but they've been soul searching for more mainstream success ever since.
>>681533617Sekiro ruined the doulslike genre
>>681535154Wrong
