re: Sony State of Play Tomorrow June 4th

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Even though Nioh, Nioh 2, and Wo Long were all a little samey, I will def. be getting Nioh 3, because I just find the gameplay so fun and because they are actually challenging compared to most games. They have a couple new wrinkles each game as well. I hope if anything they upped the difficulty. Wo Long was way too easy, there were only 2 bosses that were even remotely challenging.

As mentioned already, the biggest thing to work on is the environmental variety. 90% of the levels need not not villages or fortresses. When they do something besides that, those end up being the best levels.

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Almost done with the demo. It's just more of the copy paste shite. Most of the yokai are the exact same with the same combos and whatnot. Beat the living frick out of Mezuki despite being incredibly underleveled solely because I have muscle memory of all his combos from 2.

I think I'm just over the Nioh formula. I refuse to do games with significant loot management anymore and I'm just tired of the tedium. Copy paste environments and enemies but with additional systems tacked on to the previous ones. Got a soul core? Just put it in your onmyo box and slot it in a yin or yang position and then assign it to your quick menu! Destroyed a crucible spike? Your spirit force and guardian attack have increased! Oh it was a lesser crucible spike? That means you have more amrita spawning near the lesser crucible site. Got some life corrosion? Go pray to the jizo statue in your region. You're constantly assaulted by countless tooltips and explanation/tutorial blocks to the point where they lose all meaning.

Other than that, it's standard Nioh fare. Pick up a gazillion different items, most of which you don't even know what they do and dont care to check. Have to stop every 2 minutes and open your equipment menu to see if the new sword you picked up is marginally better thanks to a 1.2% strong attack increase. Same old kodama hunting/blessings, same skill trees (Iai Quickdraw still GOAT), lots of new open areas with boilerplate open world mechanics (instead of following a the Ghost of Tsushima fox, you follow a Scampuss that rolls around. Enemy bases to clear. Little arenas to do. Yada yada). It's just tiresome. It's really easy to see how they make these games so fast with all the copy/paste they do

On the brighter side, I really support the skill system. You have to find scrolls in the world to unlock new equippable skills at the shrines. Leads to much more rewarding exploration.

New samurai/ninja mechanic feels good but is basically a less interesting Yokai counter with some different movesets between the 2. Learn the Evade skill for Ninja tree ASAP, it's OP as shite