Yodzilla posted:

Just spend lots of money. It's worth saving up those points though for something that happens later that lets you spend them on something much more useful, cheaper soul matching.

Yodzilla posted:

Unfiltered sake is the best sake.

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VER 1.03

【Adjustment】
Reward increase on play by rare players Like "Oguchi" drops at random at the time of enemy defeat (only rare people) "Military" at the time of the mission success in the rare and increase in the number of "Inoguchi" acquired
Add forged items to "Trading" of "Tea room of Hiduyo"
Adjusted the ninety-ninth weapon gauge recovery efficiency when using "Rukai" while using the ninety-nine weapons
Adjustment of paralysis accumulation amount when using "jellyfish powder" repeatedly

【Bug fixes】
Fixed a bug that the mission could not be achieved with the Chinese version "Tempura of the Fire God" Tokai Hen "seeking stronger fire"
Fixed a bug that Kyushu Hen "Sleeping Spirit Stone" gesture tutorial window will not disappear
Fixed a bug that the title "Masa Saga won the winner" can not be acquired
Other minor bug fixes

Glenn Quebec posted:

This poison mine level is really, really unfun.

Harrow posted:

My opinion is that Nioh is easier than Souls but more punishing, if that makes sense.

Like, I think it's easier to avoid making mistakes in Nioh. You have a ton of tools at your disposal to avoid getting in trouble in the first place. The player is pretty empowered in comparison to most enemies in Nioh, which isn't the case in Souls, where I think you're always supposed to feel small and vulnerable no matter how badass you think you are. In Nioh, you are a badass.

But if you miss all your chances to avoid a gently caress up and then you do gently caress up, Nioh's going to smack you the hell down for it in a way that Souls won't. Souls is pretty sparing with its almost-instant kills, but Nioh isn't. Nioh isn't afraid to let you die in a single combo, or to let an enemy knock off 75% of your Life in a single hit, then follow it up with another attack way faster than you think they should. Souls wants to wear you down by making you pay little by little for your mistakes as you go; Nioh, instead, wants you to be the badass you're supposed to be and will rip you in half if you don't.

The point is, I don't think it's harder than Souls. I don't know if I think it's even as hard as Souls. But I can see why a lot of reviewers or commentators think that it is, because until you learn how to play, Nioh will kill you so fast you won't feel like it's fair.

I also think reviewers who are coming from Souls undervalue blocking. Something I always tell people when they're turned off from Nioh because they heard you can get killed in a single, inescapable combo: the problem is that the reviewer tried to dodge out of a combo, when your block is actually faster than your dodge. You need to block to break a combo. Then you're free to counterattack or dodge out. I think Souls and Bloodborne drummed the idea that dodging is the one true defense into people's minds so they're not really ready to really need to block sometimes in Nioh. Even in light armor, blocking is a viable way to defend yourself against a lot of attacks. (I also forget this all the time. It's still my reflex to mash dodge when I'm being combo'd, and then I die and remember, gently caress, I'm supposed to block.)

Glenn Quebec posted:

This poison mine level is really, really unfun.

Zaphod42 posted:

This is precisely how I look at it.

Although, even "punishing" can be misleading. Nioh is far less mean about punishing you for death than souls was. Summoner's Candles are literally loving everywhere. Its like if Dark Souls had 200 rings of sacrifice and you could use them AFTER dying to bring your bloodstain back. That's... unbelievably forgiving for a souls-like. Once you realize you can do that... you never really lose souls.

And that's on top of souls being separate from gold, and other things. So its less of that kinda... survival horror feeling that souls almost has, and its more about just perfect execution of the level so that you can get through the whole thing without losing so much health that you die. Like... an old school NES game.

Bugblatter posted:

That duel is so weirdly placed. It's at the end of the first chapter, but is harder than anything else you can do prior to the credits rolling. After going through NG+, I'll disagree with another poster who said he's only hard because you learn him first. Even after completing NG and knowing how to deal with human bosses, he's more of a pain in the rear end than the others. All the others can be dealt with by the standard Souls technique of dodging behind them.

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

I wish I had known what Summoner's Candles actually were too

veni veni veni posted:

I honestly don't think I have gotten a single shred of enjoyment out of any of the bosses in this game. I hate every single one of them.

Yorkshire Pudding posted:

As great as this game is, I just can't get over how terrible the story telling is. Not the plot, the plot is fine. It's obviously very campy and not at all serious, but it's fun. It's just the unbelievably lovely exposition. You get thrown into Japan in the middle of this huge war and you'll just be randomly introduced to people over a 6-second cut scene and you have no idea who they are or what the gently caress they're doing.

Obviously most people will be familiar with Tokugawa, but half the characters are introduced in a one paragraph piece of paper on the mission select scene. Whenever there is a a cut scene you'll have 5 characters, 3 who are brand new, and they'll be talking about a whole set of people you've never even met. It's like they expect you to have a complete knowledge of the Sengoku Period and all of it's major and minor players. I live in Japan, I speak Japanese, I've even studied and read a lot about Sengoku era Japan and am pretty familiar with most of what goes on, and even I am just like "Who the hell are these people?". The random Witcher-style cut scenes after big events also don't tie into anything and just feel so forced into the game.

The combat in this game is so excellent, but it feels like they spent the first 90% of their time on that and then spent about 2 months just throwing in some cutscenes and story.

veni veni veni posted:

I honestly don't think I have gotten a single shred of enjoyment out of any of the bosses in this game. I hate every single one of them.

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Bombadilillo posted:

Even...even...toadninja? cause he's my favorite boss of and Soulsborne lords of the nioh ever.

Yodzilla posted:

I don't think I understand parrying in this game at all. I beat the game without it and now I'm trying to make it work. So far I've tried against the spear undead and the axe wielding knights in London and...nothing. When the hell do you need to press the parry button to get it to proc?

veni veni veni posted:

I haven't got to him yet. Just finished the blob.

CharlieFoxtrot posted:

Assuming you have bought the parry ability and are in the right stance, it may be earlier than what feels right, at least that's how I felt coming from Bloodborne. Basically do your parry animation outside of combat and see the windup time, the enemy's attack needs to land in the middle of your animation. You definitely can't do it in London since you don't have access to skills yet

Harrow posted:

Why does smithing text have to be so rare

I just want Otani's smithing text so I can make myself a sweet set of Justice Ministry's armor but I'm not getting jack poo poo

Bugblatter posted:

The monster boss fights are pretty mediocre. The humanoid ones are mostly really good though (I'm counting the Frog as humanoid).

Fellatio del Toro posted:

BatLady was a bit rough as an Axe user. Trick seemed to be to just not even try to dodge any of her melee attacks; whenever she starts running at you just sprint backwards a few steps and then spin around and do a high stance sprinting attack .

Jewce posted:

When does the adept ninja mission unlock? Main story mission or a sub-mission? I ha e so many ninjutsu points to spend.

Snak posted:

I mean, he also only died 11 times before beating the last story mission. So he probably didn't need them.