Nioh 2 is a fine game, but it's held back by various issues. Some of those issues are absurd difficultly spikes, suddenly forcing you to play single player to progress when the rest can be played multiplayer, and some broken enemy attacks. I can't count the number of times I died when the enemy suddenly unleashed an attack that had no wind up and would either pin me to the ground and do massive damage or explode on me. Monsters also are not held back by ki like you are. They have ki meters, but they don't matter for the most part because as hard as you may work at depleting the ki to get a critical hit in, they can just decide not be staggered, attack you, and then recover all ki. And if that's not enough, numerous monsters have input reading and will dodge out of the way of your attack the moment you press the button. That's not challenging, that's flat-out cheating. The level design is downright confusing at times as well. I'm glad I played this with a friend, otherwise, I would have just given up.