Nioh 2 looks good on PC, but still needs some work to be a worthy PC port

i used to be so engrossed in nioh 2's individual creator that i was tempted to stay in it, tinkering with no end in sight, and never in reality play the game that comes after it. it's a wonderful character writer: on every occasion i hit the randomize button i saw a brand new face that i preferred, or that as a minimum made me snigger. after nearly an hour, although, i pried myself away from the character writer to get to the fight at the heart of nioh 2 and take a look at out the way it runs on computer. for the most element, it's exact, with a few unexpected laptop-special capabilities. but there are also some surprising problems that i hope koei tecmo fixes earlier than launch.

like the first nioh, this port comes approximately a 12 months after its release on the ps four. it is out on february 5. the preview build i played a few hours of on steam ran with out predominant troubles—i did not come across any crashes inside the first stage, though i did get flattened by means of a massive monkey demon several instances.

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i have been cruising thru darkish souls 2 lately and beat fromsoftware's sekiro in december, but the abilties i positioned to use in those video games do not simply bring over to nioh 2, which demands even greater cautious timing of your assaults and punishes you without delay for overstepping. a normal guy with a spear skewered me when I dared swing at him 3 times, arduous my stamina. the actual up-front project of nioh 2 is that it offers you tons of combat systems to juggle. at any time you can switch among rapid/guarded/aggressive combat stances, which affect your stamina healing and weapon damage (and absolutely alternate your assault combinations).

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stamina, aka ki, depletes extraordinarily quickly, and the only way to preserve attacking is to carry out a ki pulse (through tapping r1 on an xbox controller) just after completing a combination, which refills the meter. it's loads to don't forget on-the-fly, and my intuition to block after a combination instead of the use of the ki pulse has no longer served me properly in nioh 2 up to now.

as with sekiro, although, i'm able to sense the outline of a brilliant fight machine here that i have not trained my brain to react to. in a evaluation closing year, our sister web site gamesradar+ said that combat "finally clicks right into a fluid rhythm" at the same time as closing "on a knife side."

i'm searching ahead to surviving long enough to find that rhythm, and happy that nioh 2 is playable on computer with lots better image high-quality and higher framerates than it had on consoles—though i was surprised that my laptop couldn't max out its overall performance.