Nioh 2, the second installment of the Team Ninja saga, will arrive on PlayStation 4 next March 13, 2020. An RPG action title that takes players to Japan's bellows of the 1500s and which at the time we already play beta, which was launched last year. Now, from AlfaBetaJuega we have been able to enjoy a new game session with a demo of Nioh 2 which was halfway through the full history of the title.
In this new installment the players will live the period of the Combatant Kingdoms, in the year 1555. A time when the incessant wars have transformed the country into a kingdom of chaos full of devilish Yokai, evil spirits that feed on their victims and that have an important relevance in Nioh 2. A game with a very strong cultural component that combines reality with the interesting Japanese mythology. In addition, Nioh 2 also offers a high challenge, a lot of action and hardcore.
A game with a very strong cultural component
Yosuke Hayashi, Director of Team NINJA, confirmed in the Nioh 2 preview event in Madrid that the second part of the saga has a very high cultural component, where reality is combined with the mythology of the Japanese country. The game was developed with "more enthusiasm and a higher expectation than imagined," said Hayashi. Nioh 2 has developed as a game based on the time of Japan's wars and with the presence of Yokai, some Japanese monsters that, thanks to their variety, run an important relevance in the title.
The Yokai stories are told as stories in Japan And they have always been in Japanese culture. When designing these monsters, the director of Team NINJA said that the company has been based on various documents and has been a long time researching on this subject
As for the history of the game, it continues where the previous one stayed and the protagonist of Nioh 2 is dedicated to hunting Yoaki in the province of Mino. A Demon hunter hiding a terrible secret: He is a mestizo, an orphan with both human and Yokai blood, and travels only by being unable to find his place among humans. A tragedy makes the protagonist lose control of your powers Yokai while facing a fearsome enemy. Luckily, everything is solved thanks to the intervention of a nomadic merchant named Tokichiro who sells some strange "spiritual stones", magical objects that can help his bearer to communicate with Yokai spirits. In this way, this demon hunter retakes control of his demonic power and aims to stockpile m ore spiritual stones
Same essence, different protagonist
Nioh 2 maintains the essence of the first delivery and, above all, the difficulty. Team NINJA had no intention of making the game easy but, unlike the previous title, this time players can request the support of a friend in the online mode from the start. The second part of the franchise also incorporates a high level of difficulty, where players will go to a better life several times. One of the most striking changes of Nioh 2 resides in its protagonist.
In this second part the players they say goodbye to William to control a demon hunter, which has no name, which is fully customizable and that it can become Yokai If users press a button at any time, it offers more options to defeat enemies. The protagonist is fully customizable, since from Team Ninja they thought it convenient that «Each player could create their own character» to enter history and the stage in which Nioh 2 takes place.
In this way, at the beginning of the demo, which introduced us in the middle of the whole story, we were able to access a character creation menu, although this time we could not choose our character to taste. Of course, it was a moment that served to know all the possibilities of personalization of the character, which are from sex (male or female), posture, skin, face, hair, facial hair, makeup, body, voice and Yokai shape of the protagonist. If you don't want to waste time in this section, you can always get a character with random customization.
A difficulty that will test the skills of the players
In Nioh 2 there is a evolution about the characters, weapons, armor and gameplay; and also a greater interaction with the Yokai. But the main feature of the title is its difficulty, and Team NINJA, as we have already said, had no intention of creating "an easy game." During the time that we have been able to enjoy this new beta, in which a series of errors have been corrected, we bit dust several times, and that is the challenge of the game. Of course, with the passage of time it is taking the pace. The gameplay and mechanics are not excessively complicated, but the fighting against the enemies, especially against the Yokai, is of a high level of difficulty.
It should be noted that if the character dies during the game, you can revive immediately by pressing the X or button play a brief tutorial pressing the triangle, then return to the game. A tutorial that we could try and in which you can practice from basic actions, to attacks of the Yokai, which are abundant throughout the game. By defeating one of these monsters, the protagonist appropriates his soul to use their skills to kill the rest of the enemies. By pressing the R2 button, in the upper left corner of the screen a menu appears indicating the buttons on which each type of Yokai attack is assigned.
A gameplay similar to the first installment
On the other hand, depending on how the katana is held – from above or from the side – an option that players can choose at any time by pressing a button, different types of attacks can be made. The gameplay is similar to the first installment of Nioh
The protagonist has a series of bars that indicate both life and Yokai attacks. For example, the blue bar corresponds to life, and the green is the stamina, which runs out when attacking, dodging or running. On the other hand, the purple bar is the burden for Yokai attacks. All these bars can be filled with just bathe in the terminal fountains that are hidden by the mapping. A scenario that immerses fully in the time and in the Japanese country, since it has very careful details. On a visual level the game performs quite well and during the beta we do not suffer any problem. Nioh 2 promises a dangerous, challenging and exciting trip to feudal Japan.
A mix between a lot of action, a high level challenge and hardcore
During the hours that we were able to play Nioh 2 we already realized that it is about an evolution with respect to the first game, but maintaining its essence and a difficulty that will test the skills of the players. During this new installment he dies, and much, but therein lies the key point of the title: fall and get up, to fall again. Without a doubt Nioh 2 is a game focused for the most demanding, hardcore lovers and titles with high difficulty; but it is also an ideal delivery for lovers of Japanese culture and for those who want to spend hours of tension.
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