Having completed Ninja Gaiden sigma and Dark Souls recently,thought this game wouldn't test me as either did but it quite easily surpasses them in the challenge it presents you with.



You don't need the amount of patience, perseverance and understanding one needs in souls games.

or

the focus, mastery of highly varied enemy patterns/weapons and the ability to quickly chain timed attacks in Ninja Gaiden.





Well, You need them both and always in unison.

And more so in the first half of the game with a steep inverse difficulty as well as learning curve.The game does get surprisingly so less brutal to the point where you start to feel over powered with more Artillery at your disposal.



Hoped Ni-oh to combine the rpg elements and setting of the souls games with the fast fluid and much deeper revolutionary combat of ninja gaiden.

And I wasn't disappointed.























I admit to being guilty of often trying to experiment and implement the safest, most basic way to beat such games, and this gam…