Nioh 2's monsters are surprisingly cute

3 years 5 months ago

The player, dressed in samurai garb, bows to a little green Kodama who wears a red miso bowl on their head as a hat.

Over the Christmas hols I dipped my kusarigama back into Nioh 2, an action RPG that blends the crushing difficulty of soulslikes with Diablo’s emphasis on loot hoovering. In hindsight, this was quite an intimidating game to play post figgy pudding, especially as it’s all about carving up twisted demons.

Boy did it make me feel alive, though. And with Nioh 2: Complete Edition arriving on Steam in February, I thought it would be good to remind everyone that while, yes, it is full of scary monsters, it is full of very nice and cute monsters, too.

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Author
Ed Thorn