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Nioh 2 beated!

My thoughts on the game as a whole

+ Most boss battles are very fun and dare I say on a whole the fights are better designed than the original
+ Good boss design (although I'd say the original bosses are far more iconic) and enemies are more varied but still not Dark Souls level by any means
+ More varied atmosphere but still a lot of reused assets and backgrounds from the original.
+ Burst counter adds a good spin to the combat but Yokai Shift is nerfed to the point where they are almost useless except for their Yokai form attacks
+ The final boss is a lot better this time

- Terrible level design and enemy placement in a lot of areas. They really went the Dark Souls II route here for cheap deaths and questionable structure for most areas and really comparing this to Dark Souls II is maybe an insult to that game in this regard.
- A lot of literal copy-paste material from the original not just for the player interface and menu but the missions themselves feel like deja-vus. Like everything that you did in Nioh 1 you are gonna do it here again with not even that much of a spin. Just felt like a very lazy tacked on effort.
- The game really feels more like a super long full-priced DLC than a sequel. To be fair, this game is a bit longer than the original (or maybe it's cause I died more here) but that really does not justify the 3 years they took to make a game that is almost exactly similar to the first with only a few QOL improvements but worse design in general
- If you thought the story presentation in Nioh 1 was bad, then guess what it is exactly the same here.

Overall I'd say it is maybe worth it just for the bosses alone but this is without a doubt the weakest Soulsborne game I've played. I don't know whether I'm supposed to play this some other way than my usual strictly melee build but I don't play Souls games any other way nor do I have to.