Nioh 2 – The Complete Edition
Last updated: 2025-03-30
- Deep, complex, and rewarding combat system.
- Strategic stance-based combat offers varied playstyles.
- High replayability due to extensive content.
- Poor level design leads to frustration.
- Unbalanced difficulty feels artificial.
- Weak story and steep learning curve.
- Reviews
(sample size) - 2000
- Helpful reviews
- 68%
- Unhelpful reviews
- 32%
- Protest reviews
- 0%
- 79%Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
- 21%Helpful reviews with negative sentiment
- Positive points
- 2804
- Negative points
- 2143
- Gameplay points
- 585
- Perf. points
- 80
- Rec. points
- 715
- Misc points
- 148
| Point | Description | Importance |
|---|---|---|
| Deep, complex, rewarding combat | The combat system is a major highlight, praised for its depth, complexity, and responsiveness. It features diverse weapon types, stances, skills, and combos, drawing comparisons to character action games like Devil May Cry and Ninja Gaiden. Many reviewers feel the combat system is among the best in the action RPG genre. | 78% |
| Strategic stance-based combat system | The stance system (high, mid, low) adds a layer of strategic depth to combat, influencing attack styles and patterns. Mastering stance switching and Ki Pulses is crucial for success, allowing for aggressive or passive playstyles. The controls are tight and responsive, with fighting-game influences. | 66% |
| Diverse weapon selection and playstyles | The game offers a wide variety of weapons, each with unique mechanics, movesets, and skill trees. This encourages experimentation and allows players to tailor their combat style to their preferences. Mastering each weapon requires a significant time investment. | 48% |
| High replayability and extensive content | The game offers a substantial amount of content and high replayability, with New Game Plus modes, optional challenges, and a deep endgame. Players can spend hundreds of hours mastering the game's intricate mechanics and exploring different builds. | 35% |
| Enjoyable, fun, and addictive experience | Many reviewers express that the game is enjoyable, fun, and addictive. They praise the overall experience and find it engaging, often highlighting that the game becomes increasingly captivating as they progress and master its systems. | 35% |
| Significant improvements over predecessor | Many reviewers feel the game is a significant improvement over the first game in the series, with better balance, more content, and refined mechanics. Quality of life changes make the game less draining compared to the first game. | 25% |
| Incorporates Japanese mythology and Yokai | The game incorporates elements of Japanese mythology and folklore, with diverse and distinctive Yokai (demons) playing a significant role in the story and combat. Players can utilize Yokai abilities and transformations, adding depth and variety to the gameplay. | 14% |
| Excellent and accessible multiplayer | The game's multiplayer mode is praised for its ease of use and stable netcode, allowing players to complete the entire game with friends. Some reviewers feel the game is the best soulslike game of their life. | 10% |
| Onmyo magic and Ninjutsu enhance gameplay | The game features Onmyo magic and Ninjutsu, providing players with a variety of offensive and defensive options. These skills can be used to buff weapons, inflict elemental damage, and debuff enemies, making the game more accessible to players who are not skilled in action games. | 6% |
| Enjoyable hack and slash experience | The reviewer enjoyed the game as a "hack and slash" experience after introducing mods and trainers. The reviewer enjoyed the game enough to get the platinum trophy on PlayStation. | 6% |
| Fast-paced and intricate combat | The combat is very fast-paced and intricate, offering a lot of options and creativity. The game is really trained for combat. | 5% |