After hours and hours of rage and multiple controller throws later, I've finally completed Nioh 1!! A game of many highs and many MANY lows lol, but overall I had a freaking blast playing through this one. Definitely a new team ninja fan, I have never played a game that has such a good "flow-state" as this one

It took me quite awhile for the combat to "click" and get comfortable with it, but once that happened I was glued to it all the way through. Stance switching and weaving combos in/out of stances with ki pulse and block timing activated neurons in my brain that I didn't know I had. Not to mention all the RPG stats/build chasing kept that "hook" all the way through.

Really excited to play Nioh 2 soon!! Any good (nioh 2 specific) tips before I dive in?

Baba nobuharu, Oni Mino the Immortal

Seriously seeing him in a demon form makes me thought there are going to have battle of Nagashino in Nioh3

https://x.com/nioh_game/status/2114899893210775833?s=20

Doing a kodama costume for Halloween this year I'm doing warrior one from nioh 1. Who else is doing one?

Hey everyone. I am looking for some help to clear the way of the demon dlc missions . Level wise I am 300, +23 dual swords and +15 armor . I have went through the first 2 areas of way of the wise but the DLCs seem way to hard for me . I would appreciate some help 🙂 I play on play station.

Does anyone have Nioh 1 on Epic Games and is your overlay working?

My overlay worked a few months ago, now it's not working. I tried reinstalling the game, reinstalled the launcher, tried the beta launcher, tried different resolutions, tried borderless, fullscreen, windowed, nothing works. I can't bring up the overlay. It works in other games. I can't see my achievements at all.

There are so many different ninjutsu to use in the game, but you are locked to only using three of them at once. I believe you should be able to hold r1 and then press r2 to swap to a second pallet, which functions similarly to wo long’s skill and magic systems. I think this should be in a patch or an addition in the final dlc.

I got this in the middle of my WOTSt run from a revenant drop. Now I'm just starting out with WOTD. Looks like a god tier set of special effects (but do tell me if it still needs some reforging). With this list of special effects, should I just keep this until end game by just soul matching, or should I wait for newer drops? I'm kinda worried soul matching is be very hard on gold.

As for the armor, I already have a pretty good set of 7 Misfortunes & 8 Hardships + Samurai from the Dark Lands buff going on with pretty okay special effects. I was surprised with the power creep WOTD gear drops. Is it more economical to just forge or get from loot?

Curious if anyone is running a pure (or near pure) magic build and what that would look like?
I’m in NG+ and would like to experiment with something drastically different 😀

Even after all this time, I feel like I've barely scratched the surface of what's possible with Nioh 3's combat system.

There are still so many weapon combinations, cancels, and interactions waiting to be explored.

What about you guys? Are you still experimenting with new combos, or have you settled into your favorite playstyle?

Someone hope on ps5 Nioh 1 need help with ninja level please

Man, once you get into a flow in this game, nothing feels better.

I finished Nioh 3 today and for me they both look very strong (unfortunately we don’t yet know Takechiyo’s full potential). They both are time travellers, both won against terrifyingly strong demons, both possess somewhat similar powers.

Personally, I’d pick Hide for now. What do you guys think?

Thanks to the help I received here I have figured out the best defense trophy BUT now I need 10 Samurai skill points to finish learning them.
What’s the easiest way to get late game Samurai skill points? I’ve beat the game. Tried rekilling Chijikos. No luck there. What to do?

Hey everyone! I’m a veteran of the first game, and while I really enjoyed the third one, I’ve noticed from this subreddit that most people consider the second game the best in the series. Personally, I didn’t like it at all - I ran into some major difficulty imbalances where I felt completely helpless, and enemies would one-shot me. I’ve reinstalled the game, and I’m determined to finally beat it properly - in a way that actually lets me enjoy it. What should I focus on? What might have been preventing me from having a good time? My biggest issue with the second game was the Soul Cores; I just never found them useful. I know they don’t consume stamina and can be used to extend combos, but I only found a handful of them practical (for instance, Ippon-datara is the best). Honestly, though, I had plenty of other issues with the game.

The first time around, I played a ninja-style build using a kusarigama, throwing shuriken, kunai, and so on.

This time, I want to play through using a strong build and perhaps get a better grasp of the mechanics - even though I usually feel like I’ve already know them.

Could you offer some advice? What are the core pillars of Nioh 2? What makes it easier to understand compared to the other games in the series? How do I actually conquer this game?

I'm just spamming skills but it feels great to be a spinning neon light

Bit of a weird thing to try and emulate but I really liked how those bastards Saito Toshimitsu (Nioh 2) and Kajiwara Kagetoki (Nioh 3)used Omyo magic and interweaves into his weapon combos and I wanted to try and emulate that myself in Nioh 3. Obviously there are limitations to this since we don’t have access to Saito’s mechanics, spells or elemental integration like he has but I want to use what I can to emulate it.

Notes:
- Finished NG++.

-I use awakening for quick spell usage.

- I use most weapons so I’m happy to see your recommendations.

- I don’t want to be insanely OP and use the hell/shock/gust/fire/bubble spells.

- My build right now is focused on life recovery via Amrita absorption with the extraction talisman, life leech talisman, martial arts proficiency and set bonuses inlcuding Iga Escape Conspirator and Amaterasu with Susano thrown in the mix for ki damage purposes.

- My spells include extraction, life leech, blessed bolt, explosive shit, cutting blast and geyser shot.

- MyOmyo Box consists of Sunakake-Baba and Nuppepo.

- I interchange guardian spirits.

-I am trying also to employ shadow ninjutsu arts such as infernal calamity and glacial calamity as well to further have that Omyo battle mage build vibes.

Essentially I’m looking for any build, skill, set advice to achieve this if I can.

Cheers!

Nioh 1 and 2 had that traditional UI with 3 corners of the screen each with their UI element like Health Bar, Item wheel and Stance Wheel. The boss health bar is in the bottom center iirc. We don't count the translucent radar lol

Wo Long changed that to where due to the game having a positive negative spirit system, the spirit bar being symmetrical and in the centre of the screen made it better to read and to avoid clutter, they probably bundled the health and estus count above it and made the UI focus on the bottom of the screen with only the boss health bar on the very top alongside the boss's spirit mechanic.

Nioh 3 adopted the same center placed health bar + stamina + spirit stuff and focused the UI to the bottom of the screen instead of 3 distinct corner like 1 and 2.

so sticking our Nioh games, which of these two styles do you guys prefer and deem as a better style of UI overall? i feel like i prefer Nioh 2 where it's just sort of a comfort UI where the health bar rightfully feels like on the top left of the screen like im used to thanks to dark souls.

Surprisingly I kinda feel ninja's dodge is harder then samurai's deflect on this boss

Don't know why

My other shingen clip if you guys are interest of: https://youtu.be/R174HZUnsrI?si=-hUHvwUJUl2ZyXaR

I just started Nioh 2 and died like 20 times already but I like it. I love challenging games like sekiro. It feels like Sekiro. I am learning mechanics and improving slowly.

Alos, Nioh Has more combat mechanics and wepons and ranged weapons and more. Makes me excited to play.

Any tips for a newbie?

Playing on Keyboard and mouse.

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I just started Nioh 3 on Steam and managed to take down the first boss! I'm moving into the first proper zone now and would love to find someone to team up with for some casual co-op play through the game.

I'm completely down to play with fellow new players so we can figure things out together, or experienced players who don't mind helping out/guiding the way.

Drop a comment below or send me a DM if you're down to team up!

I’m trying to slug my way through the dream of the Demon but I feel like I’m not all the powerful, I am not sure if my gear is the issue but being able to temper more would help.

In my opinion it is one of/the strongest art in Nioh. Getting huuuge additional damage which stacks with back hits (it does, right?) is going to melt bosses. Name is the most suitable too

Also, Nioh pros, can you tell me about your fav mystic art and explain why it’s the best/strongest

A major reason why Nioh and other TN titles are so obscure is because they genuinely look like PS3 games, which was fine up until the PS4 generation, but they still look and run like shit on the PS5 generation which is inexcusable

Now I am not the biggest graphics snob, I prefer gameplay over graphics but I really wish these games looked better, or at least ran better, Nioh 3 was a disaster on PC with how crappily it ran, and from the Wo Long 2 demo it seems they haven’t learnt their lesson yet

And it’s not just the graphics, Fromsoftware games have average graphics but they look really good because their art direction is great, Team Ninja games do not have great art direction everything just looks so incohesive

A lot of the bosses are straight up ugly to look at, their color palettes are so jarring, it’s like if some one gave a toddler a bunch of crayons to color the bosses, and the visual noise with all the different effects is unbearable, it’s like those pachinko machines that when you hit the jackpot the screen flashes a billion different colors that could likely kill an epileptic kid