The funniest thing about Nioh to me is just how pancake-flat the difficulty “curve” is. You are just fighting the same 5-10 dudes over and over for 20-30 hours, and your numbers are bigger-ing at more or less the same rate theirs are, so not only are you fighting the same enemies in the same environments, but the experience of fighting them, how quickly you kill them and they kill you, is almost exactly the same every time. Occasionally you will get a nice drop and you will kill Dude #3 in 5 hits instead of 6 for a mission or two, but then it goes back. Less occasionally, one of the enemies will get a new twist which means they have one more move, or you will get a new skill to try out, but it's all a wash, it doesn’t change the texture of any encounters much at all.

This was genuinely humorous to me and I would kind of object personify the different enemy types as they inevitably showed up every level, but I obviously don’t think this is good and I don’t think I have it in me to do it again, so here’s to hoping Nioh 2 has maybe 15 or even 20 enemies!