The story was fine. Nice to see familiar faces but a bit younger. The combat has definite improvements over the first game, what with the yokai shift abilities and the burst counter mechanic, but this is very much Nioh 1.5. The bullshit inventory nonsense and blacksmith stuff is still there, possibly worse than ever. Random loot doesn't feel right in these kind of games.

It goes on far too long. On three separate occasions I thought I was at the last boss only for the game to fuckin' Columbo me with "Eh, just one more thing".

I didnae finish it. I got the final boss to a pixel of health countless times and he just annihilated me time and time again with ridiculous attacks. It stopped being fun hours ago and I don't care anymore. Even before this, at the late midpoint it felt like I was being punished for focusing on just being a big strong sword boy. Having to try and scramble together resistances to all the status shit and having talismans/jutsus and whatever the fuck else this late in the game just felt really cheap and unbalanced.