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  • Summary: Ready to die? Experience the newest brutal action game from Team NINJA and Koei Tecmo Games. In the age of samurai, a lone traveler lands on the shores of Japan. He must fight his way through the vicious warriors and supernatural Yokai that infest the land in order to find that which he seeks.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 23
  2. Negative: 0 out of 23
  1. Feb 7, 2018
    92
    Labelling Nioh as "another Dark Souls clone", just doesn't do it justice. The Complete Edition is a package brimming with content, challenging gameplay, deep combat mechanics, Diablo-like looting and a fun crafting system to boot. It does not stick to its peers' blueprint, but it endeavours to evolve in a different beast, and for the most part, succeeds.
  2. Dec 4, 2017
    90
    Clearly with the focus on combat and challenging enemies, there are similarities with Nioh and From Software’s Souls games, but unlike other games that have built themselves to be copies of the successful formula, the team behind Nioh have added their style into the mix to make it more than another game trying to lure the fans of hardcore action RPGs to it. Those additional ideas build on an already solid foundation, but enable Nioh to standout above the rest of the inspired clones with its hectic, faster paced and varied combat and addictive loot mechanics, to go toe-to-toe with the company that initiated this new wave of challenging combat, going as far as to better them in some areas.
  3. PC PowerPlay
    Jan 6, 2018
    90
    Nioh successfully reinvents Souls with deeper combat and skill trees. [Issue#269, p.58]
  4. Dec 3, 2017
    85
    Nioh: Complete Edition is a great game. That much should be expected as the original release was. However, much like all Koei Tecmo PC ports, this release suffers from some glaring omissions and limitations. Fortunately, Team Ninja have already announced some patches to start improving the release.
  5. Nov 7, 2017
    81
    Captivating and challenging action RPG in the spirit of Dark Souls, but the PC conversion includes bizarre blunders.
  6. Nov 20, 2017
    80
    A fantastic show of force from the long-standing Team Ninja, but one that feels like it didn’t truly understand the mass appeal of the genre. Spruced up with the group’s signature style, Nioh only falters with its less captivating world. We can appreciate the heritage, but it won’t grab everyone.
  7. Nov 9, 2017
    67
    If you have ever praised the sun, or if you have any fear of the old blood, Nioh is an absolute must play. A fantastic and deep combat system, coupled with great boss design and a difficult yet fair effort/reward loop put Nioh right up there with its not so distant brothers in Dark Souls and Bloodborne. If I were to assign a score to the game, simply for its content it would absolutely be a solid “A”. Unfortunately, even though it is the Complete Edition, this is not necessarily the superior version of the game. If you only play games on PC, this game is still a no-brainer to pick up, but if you’re like me and have consoles as well as a computer, I think the PS4 may still be the place to play Nioh.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 49 out of 106
  2. Negative: 34 out of 106
  1. Nov 8, 2017
    10
    Players with a half-decent computer and a controller will find themselves lost in a game that goes above and beyond what’s expected of thePlayers with a half-decent computer and a controller will find themselves lost in a game that goes above and beyond what’s expected of the genre.The game is great, everything you would expect from a dark souls clone but even better in terms of speed and preciseness. Expand
  2. Nov 23, 2017
    10
    Excelente juego muy bien optimizado EXELENT PORT. Dice requerimientos mínimos una gtx 780 y lo corro con una gtx 670 y un i7 3770k perfectoExcelente juego muy bien optimizado EXELENT PORT. Dice requerimientos mínimos una gtx 780 y lo corro con una gtx 670 y un i7 3770k perfecto 1920x1080p, q no tiene soporte de ratón y teclado, pero eso no significa q sea un mal PORT, solo ignorantes q lloran por jugar con teclado y ratón no deberían comprarlo, si no tienen para un control de 15 dólares mucho menos tendrán la computadora para correrlo, jugué los dark souls y este es un estilo muy diferente es mucho mas rápido y con diferentes posturas por armas, baja media y alta lo que hace realmente atractivo el juego, ya q a diferencia del dark souls este tiene por arma 3 veces mas ataques, las graficas están de lujo, el rendimiento no me canso de decirlo esta GENIAL y para mi eso es lo q lo hace un buen PC PORT no esa estupidez de q soporte teclado y ratón, q es lo q mas critican algunos reviewer en esta pagina, le explico para realizar un combo y cambiar postura en teclado mínimo tendría q oprimir de 6 a 7 teclas en control por los análogos solo 3 o 4 , este juego no es un Word of warcraft no es un mmo, por lo tanto no es necesario el teclado y el ratón, pero si es obligatorio un control con análogos, la historia si eres fanático de la era meiji samurai este es el juego para ti, el protagonista no es un japonés por q es un naufrago, pero de resto la verdad estoy muy feliz con este juegazo.

    recomendando y ojala lo ayuden comprándolo ya q es una exclusiva de ps4 traída al pc.
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  3. Aug 23, 2023
    9
    Very good game. I enjoyed playing this game a lot. I strongly recommend this.
  4. Jun 25, 2023
    7
    Çıktığı zamana göre grafikleri kötüydü fakat oynanış açısından build açısından ve loot açısından çok zengin bir oyun. Oyun bittikten sonraÇıktığı zamana göre grafikleri kötüydü fakat oynanış açısından build açısından ve loot açısından çok zengin bir oyun. Oyun bittikten sonra abyss ile oyun süresi daha da uzuyor. Expand
  5. Mar 22, 2019
    6
    I’m a newcomer to this game however even after having beaten other soul games, Bloodborne and every ninja Gaiden game to completion my largestI’m a newcomer to this game however even after having beaten other soul games, Bloodborne and every ninja Gaiden game to completion my largest issue is with the convoluted controls.

    To switch weapons you have to hold the right bumper and select your weapon by using the d- pad. This makes switching in fights a chore since Nioh has to back off to do it instead of it being fluid which every Ninja Gaiden game was able to pull off beautifully.

    To change stance you have to repeat the process with the other D-pad options. Again making it a chore to swap out stances, although the animation is briefly quicker for this.

    If you decide to heal, you better take a two second break and hope you don’t get hit by anything.

    Enemies in your area aren’t shown to be behind you so many times you’ll feel cheated til you repeat it all over.

    The game doesn’t make out leveling to much a possibility, so it won’t get any easier. You have to stand toe to toe with a boss which usually can be easily beaten by upgrades which are usually well past the encounter. Kind a like you have to face off and repeat til hopefully you land the final blow.

    Finally, I did very much appreciate the differences this game has from any Soul games however the whole managing your stamina thing actually pulls away from the fun and engagement.

    You lose stamina when you block or get hit - fair enough.

    You can’t regenerate stamina if your blocking - this alone killed the fun in keeping any pressure up .. falling back to heal or dodge while the stamina on the enemy refreshes.

    You lose stamina for taking damage, attempting to swing and cannot regen any of it back except to evade til your .. well energized to swing.

    IMHO, if the stamina recovered faster or while even holding block then for me it’d be considered a fair fight.

    The game is beautiful and will keep most interested til the frustrations leaves them to shelve it til patience has restored or those hard memories forgotten.

    Truly, I wanted to really enjoy this game - totally. For me, personally I didn’t enjoy due to the way we have to fight in this game. It wants so much to be real in many ways but some of the realness sacrifies the fun.
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  6. Nov 9, 2017
    2
    Abridged version of my Steam review.

    I've wasted enough time in my life on games with crappy difficulty curves due to improper testing and
    Abridged version of my Steam review.

    I've wasted enough time in my life on games with crappy difficulty curves due to improper testing and poor design vision being touted as intentional old-school difficulty. There are some issues with point blank shots with a ranged weapon when the reticle target has changed to "targetted" failing to register as a hit but still alerting enemy/enemies to your presence. I know it isn't registering at all because when it hits armor and does no damage there's an indicator of that. Sometimes the game just seems to forget that something got shot at a guy. The boss fights in this are obviously going to be the 3D Gaiden style where they can turn on dimes so you need to dodge within the .5s window or eat huge damage. In ways this is more fluid than Souls in other ways it carries over a lot of overdrawn animation garbage that is really frustrating, I prefer tight responsive controls in games like this, I keep hoping a developer will take the Souls formula and evolve on it by making it more twitch instead of those slow swampy trudge kind of feeling. Even with low weight ratings. This isn't a title that aimed to achieve that.

    You can customize controller inputs, but some of these buttons are multibinds that aren't shown on the button mapping screen, so when you change that button some of the multibind goes to the new button and some of it sticks on the old one. To boot sometimes the custom control scheme randomly reverts back to the original you editted, while playing, then can switch back. So it's best not editting and just sticking with an existing one.

    The game is definitely more demanding than it needs to be. I'm currently running an i7-7700k with a GTX1070 and 16gb of DDR4 RAM. At max settings this game is more taxing than DOOM 2016 at max settings, it isn't nearly as impressive in any facet, the tech requirements for a good experience are nothing but the result of lousy optimization.

    The lack of proper K&M support (you can do things with the keyboard such as navigate menus, move, ready bow, probably more but I didn't check all of it, was accidental while trying to alt-tab and the like), but mouse doesn't seem to work, at least for me) didn't bother me since I play these sorts of games with a controller anyway. It's going to be a sore spot for some PC gamers which is totally justified, this is now a PC game after all.

    Borderless window option is great but randomly locked frame rate at 37 to me for some reason. Would have to go back to settings and flick it back to full screen then borderless window to get it to lock back at 60 until it locked at 37 again.

    Has options for frame caps of 30 or 60. Games these days should just have sliders for this due to all the possibilities. I prefer 75 lately since that's what my monitor's refresh rate is OC'd to, without the option to flat out decap the frame rate in-game and then cap it at 75 through an external program (what I do with 90% of PC games on the market because most allow decapping with a very simple VSYNC OFF option) I'm having a handicapped experience compared to what I'm used to. I have to wonder how crippled 144hz users must feel.

    The sound has some weird mixing to it, I'm not talking about volume levels but something that went wrong with EQ or something like that when doing the recording and/or mixing in the studio. I don't know what they were thinking, it definitely isn't heavily compressed (though not uncompressed audio which I initially figured it would be given the final install size of 73.9gb - perhaps it's just a bunch of language options bloating an otherwise 40-50gb title?).

    There are also two coop options for this game. One is similar - not identical - to the Souls mechanic, where you summon someone to your world. In Nioh you have to spend an item (a cup that you get mostly from rare drops from Revenants - Revenants being enemies you summon from the blood marks of players who died) to summon a player who has already cleared that stage. So in this mode you cannot play coop with a friend unless they have already completed it.

    There's also another coop mode that is really hard to find information on. My best understanding of it from what I've seen is, after you beat the first actual mission (not the prologue or tutorial, the beach mission), you get access to a Torii Gate which allows you to be summoned to the worlds of players for the sake of coop as explained in the previous paragraph. But you can also use it to do straight up coop on any mission with anyone who selects that same coop option from that same Torii Gate menu. Convoluted way of providing a means of traditional coop.

    I have no idea how this became as popular as it did, though that seems to be a common theme with a lot of games these days. The peak for a lot of genres has come and gone, all that's left often is recycling for money, recycling to hone, the latter rarely happens.

    Nioh is a disaster.
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  7. Nov 9, 2019
    0
    Возможно, это лучшая игра в мире, но без поддержки формата 21:9 в 2019 году она мне не нужна. Дата выхода: 2017 год, Карл!!!Возможно, это лучшая игра в мире, но без поддержки формата 21:9 в 2019 году она мне не нужна. Дата выхода: 2017 год, Карл!!!

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