I'll start off by saying that there are many quality of life improvements that I greatly enjoyed in this game, such as the auto equip best armor button, the jizo/kodama/sudama blessings for buffs and drop rates, the crafting changes and of course the map. I also very, VERY much liked how easy it was to find kodamas in this game compared to the first two. I never really liked having to hunt them down to get more elixirs, but at the same time you get so many elixir drops in this game that you kinda don't really need to hunt them outside of completionist I guess. I also didn't mind the open world, it felt just big enough to justify existing while also not being so big that there's just a lot of downtime running from place to place like in Elden Ring. You were also rewarded for exploring the map and it wasn't with junk rewards like most open world games tend to do. That said, I probably do still prefer the missions in previous titles as the levels felt more unique and not same-y as this game's. Now, I'll start listing some things I didn't like.Firstly, I aboslutely, positively DESPISE with deep rancor what they did to magic in this game. It feels so unbelievably shit that it makes me wonder why they even bothered. It's highly limiting, soul core summons are basically useless, the buff/debuff durations are so unreasonably short that they're not even worth using most of the time unless you dump a ton of levels into extending their duration, they removed the onymo skill tree, AND you're limited in what spells you can even have! Look, I know magic was op in the previous games, but this is an egregious nerf. Legitimately the ONLY magic spell worth using now is the lifesteal one that heals you every time you do damage as it lets you face tank pretty much everything with the right build. All the other spells are just too damn short or weak to even mess with. It also doesn't help that ninjustu is just straight up better in terms of damage and utility.continued below
Secondly, the samurai/ninja dynamic is cool in concept but I don't like how half the weapons are locked behind each tree. In my playthrough, I barely ever used ninja, mainly because I found it super boring and way too easy to cheese pretty much everything with it because of the high mobility and exceedingly generous iframes. My guess is that they put the ninja style in for new people who are used to From Soft style games since it's a lot closer to that, but going from niche to mass appeal never works. I think they should remove weapon restrictions and allow both styles to use all weapons at the very least.Thirdly, weapon balance is atrocious, straight up. Axe is by FAR the best weapon in the game and it's not even close. Yes, even better than tonfas. I beat the entire thing using Tornado's Edge curcible skill and the lifsteal spell, just spinning to win in every boss's face and healing through the damage. Human bosses were completely trivialized with that plus the Victory Rush skill, add on top the skills that reduce ki cost for martial arts and such plus the Brave Demon Hunter set for further ki reduction plus damage boost and you just have an absolutely braindead build that rolls over the entire game with zero difficulty. The only way to die at that point is by getting one shot.Thirdly, the boss quality is all over the place. Some of them are pretty good and then you have really bad ones like the horseman guy, Kunimatsu and most of the human bosses if I'm being honest. I think the bosses are generally better than Nioh 1 but definitely worse than Nioh 2. Also, the boss music is kinda forgettable this time around, I legit can't remember a single new boss track. continued
Fourthly, enemy variety is meh. I must have killed kamitachi, gozuki, mezuki, onyroki and enenra like 3-5 times each. Shit was absolutely ridiculous. I'm all for callbacks to old bosses just for nostalgia and to see how far we've come, but come on--I don't need to fight these guys that many times. I fight them more in this game than in their ORIGINAL GAMES! I don't really mind them reusing old normal enemies like the bird, snake and towel women but I also noticed we're missing a ton of old foes as well. Where are the long tongue monk cyclops? The foxes? The wagons with the big ass demon heads? Why am I fighting 800 gakis before I see my first tengu? You leave out cooler yokai but add in the dogshit stone sentries? Really?Lastly, the story is ass. These games have never been literary masterpieces but come on, 3's story is so low effort it honestly would have been better to just not have one at all. I was at least invested in what was happening in the first two games, but I legit had no fucking idea what was happening during 3. None of the characters are really given time to develop outside of the pistol guy in Bakamatsu either. There was also this repeating weird trend of a character becomes a monster -> you beat the shit out of them -> they turn to normal and we become friends. This actually happens like 4 or 5 times, maybe even more. The time travel bit also leaves unanswered questions. If Bakumatsu takes place in the future, what the fuck happened with him and William? They just sat around and watched this giant red demon in the sky corrupt everything? You could argue maybe William died of old age or was too old to really do anything by the time all that started, but Hide is fucking immortal. I don't think he'd sit around and watch Japan get wrecked by yokai. I could assume the DLCs will answer these questions but I won't get my hopes up because of how poor the writing has been.I give it a 7/10.
>>736817151I'll post my review too: it's fun. Not as fun as Nioh 2 but still fun
first soulslike that filtered me, not because it's too hard, but because it's too easy.
>>736817917That's concerning, I really liked Nioh 2
>>736817151Ye kinda feel the same, stopped playing in the future arc. The game play with the parry is awesome for the samurai, and I am glad you can just play samurai only ( I did). And I agree that the time travel always feels kinda lame. I think it was ok in 2 because it was dlc and a separate story. Would have been better if you were some faceless character like in nioh 2, wo long and rise of the ronin, rather than one of the shogun heirs. It feels unimmersive when you play a female character
>>736817151I still never got it. Nioh 2 was one of my favorite recent games, but wu kong being shit and the forced multiple characters in ronin really jaded my expectations from team ninja. And all i've heard about it is it's not as good as nioh 2.
Not gonna read all that shit, Nioh 3 was good, but it was not Nioh 2 levels of good, hell, SoP was considerably better than Nioh 3.
>>736817917Gameplay wise I like Nioh 3 more. It's more fluid and the tracking for moves is better. Random slice went from being trash to being one of the best dual swords moves.
>>736817151Nigga why the fuck are you posting this HERE?
>>736819562Bro wukong and wo long are two different games
Act 1 was the best Nioh has ever been. Act 2 and 3 were disappointing by comparison. Not having an easy way to re-fight bosses is annoying as hell.
I never found Nioh that hard to begin with.
>>736821573Stop using your gayjutsus.
>>736817637>3's story is so low effort it honestly would have been better to just not have one at allIts funny this is actually true. It would have worked better if they just leaned entirely into the "time travelling dude who shows up in the most dire circumstances" and played it almost like a serialized pulp. Recurring characters so you see get to see the people you save grow up to fill your shoes. I liked the idea but they didn't seem to capitalize on it at all.
The woke virus ruins another game. Shocking.
>>736817151>soul core summons can completely lock out boss ki almost solo>>soul core summons are basically useless
>>736823370>me when I lie
