Are You Patient?
Nioh is a hard game, brutally difficult in fact. Much like the Souls games, Nioh is absolutely unrelenting, making you tackle tough enemies and challenges around every corner. On top of this you have to juggle various stats as you level up, and keep in mind the weight of your armor and weapon and how that affects your movement and attack speed.
There are complex layers to Nioh’s gameplay, and it’s going to take a while to get adjusted. Also like Dark Souls, you accrue experience as you kill enemies, and you can raise William’s experience by praying at shrines scattered around the world. The catch, of course, is that praying at shrine respawns all enemies, and getting killed means you drop all experience you have at the exact spot you died. Chances are, you’re going to be dying a lot.
Considering this, Nioh is a game that requires patience, and lots of it. It can be frustrating to continuously hit your head against the wall on one section or boss, but the rewarding feeling after you overcome it is so satisfying. Besides that, you’re also going to spend a lot of time distributing stat points between the three skill trees of Nioh — Samurai, Ninja, and Onmyo. These correlate to different weapons and equipment, and your ability to wield them. Experimentation will be key to finding which weapons you meld best with and what works best against certain enemies.
Don’t let the difficulty and deep systems deter you from experiencing the game, just go in knowing full well the amount of patience you’re going to need.
