Technical annoyances aside (as there was nothing game-breaking), the complete edition includes all three DLC, Dragon of the North, Defiant Honor, and Bloodshed’s End and pits the resilient pirate-turned-pseudo samurai William against ninjas, foot soldiers, and demonic abominations called Yokai. Since I tweaked the settings a bit I do not experience the framerate droppage or nearly any of the crashes that some users on Windows 7 are experiencing (full disclosure, I am on Windows 10 and have not been able to test it on Windows 7). Fortunately things seem to have largely worked themselves out, but the issue was likely related to forcing resolution as one of our other contributors here, Chris, also experienced similar issues. Imagine my dismay when I fired it up and ran into some wonky technical issues, mostly having to do with the framerate dropping. Why? Because it is damned fun, that is why and that means that when the Complete Edition was ported over to the PC I was immediately on the bandwagon and ready to give it a go. Though his score is perfectly acceptable, I found that I would continue to go back to Nioh far more-so that I would Bloodborne or Dark Souls, the latter of which I have at least a thousand hours into across the trilogy, and still Nioh is one I would continuously revisit.

The primary downside to all of that exposure along the two+ years of waiting? It may have built up a bit of the hype surrounding it as I was a bit shocked at the total score that Pierre-Yves gave the title shortly after launch, check out the review here for a more in-depth look. We literally lapped up every demo that we could and sunk dozens of collective hours into them all and we were hooked (we had nearly a dozen articles starting as far back as 2015.

Nioh was a wildly popular title here at Chalgyr’s Game Room prior to its early February 2017 release there were numerous closed and open betas as Team NINJA worked to improve and perfect its balance and multiplayer support. A shame that only eight months or so past the PlayStation 4 release that the PC port is at times, marred by technical issues. Rounding out the trifecta of excellence is a wonderful story following William, a conscripted pirate on the hunt for Amrita, a golden stone that is found primarily in Japan, and is a dark yet strangely serene experience. Though well-received on PlayStation 4 when it launched in early 2017, as the year wore on it was increasingly more difficult to hear about the beloved grimdark action-RPG set in an alternate of the late Sengoku Period in Japan (1460’s to about 1610) and features stunning level design, weapon and armor art straight out of the Azuchi-Momoyama period. For all of the success of KOEI TECMO and Team NINJA’s Nioh it seems too often that it is brushed aside as “Dark Souls with Samurai” which is a criminal understatement given how good Nioh is.

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