I’m about 10 hours started to feel bored, is this normal?

[carnage]

Hi all! After getting past the intial hurdle I started to get a feel for the game, and was enjoying it until yesterday.

After the lightning boss guy (had the same VA as Freeza from DB I think?) I just found the game to start feeling more boring?

I feel way too strong for enemies, and so far there’s no new enemy types, and the levels are all starting to looo and feel the same.

Has anyone else had this? Or is it basically if I feel this now I won’t enjoy the rest of the game period.

Thanks all!

[orthostatic]

Five difficulties. If the first play-through feels easy that's a good thing because it is absurdly easy. Dream of the *** denotes the difficulty: Samurai, Strong, Demon, Wise, Nioh in that order. Once you reach Dream of the Nioh additional content opens up, that being Underworld which is 108 floors with escalating difficulty. After 108 floors there is Depths which, per others, caps at 30 levels. That is the greatest difficulty the game offers at present.

If you are ready to skip ahead and don't care about running each mission over and over, you don't have to. Just unlock Afterglow "In the Eye of the Beholder" and clear it to advance to next. You'll have to knock out a few missions here and there to unlock Afterglow region on each new difficulty, but that is a "speedstep" way of jumping forward until the game challenges you.

If you find the game absent challenge or engagement, well, at least you tried.

[Pnume]

Rush to the DLCs and try Tate Eboshi.
She is a pest. You'll love her.

[GladiatorA19]

I think you're referring to Imagawa as the lightning boss? The dual sword guy with the elephant? That is fairly early in the game, especially when you consider the new game + difficulties. Imagawa is like the introductory human boss; they get pretty stupid later on with certain dojo bosses and others. Also, that early on the game you haven't unlocked the full skill trees for weapons so that's something to consider as well.

Enemies do get more varied, and that early on you haven't seen most of them. However I will say you're gonna see a LOT of certain types - Yoki, Enki, Gaki, Skeleton warriors of all types, Aberrant Soldiers are freaking everywhere in the DLC, etc. Human enemies don't change a whole lot from the basic soldier / taller soldier / ninja archetype so if enemy variety and design is what you find interesting and fun vs. figuring out their combat mechanics, then yes I would say Nioh 2 won't be a great fit for you. For example, you know the Yoki muscle demon guys with swords and axes? Well later on they just equip themselves with kusarigamas instead. More challenging for sure, but really the same "enemy".

This probably goes without saying but enemies on later missions are stronger stat-wise than previous ones, so even basic enemy types "level up" so to speak, if you're worried about overpowering them.

I would also concede that level design is probably one of, if not the biggest weakness of Nioh 2. The levels themselves aren't really interesting to explore since the only thing you might find is a kodama / sudama or skill point items, and there's only a very select few missions where you need to search for something or perform certain actions in order to unlock side missions. Honestly it's the only thing that drags the game down for me.

My honest advice would be to switch up whatever you're using right now for a weapon and try doing maybe one or two main missions and see if that feels different. Try some ninjutsu / onmyo if you haven't yet too. If it still feels like a slog then yeah this might not be the game for you.

[Fat Valentine]

Well in the mission after, there's the Wairas and Umi-Bozus, and the one after has the Rokurokis, Korokas and Snowclops, so you're already wrong on that.

[Tiniturtle]

Originally posted by Mr_singah:

Hi all! After getting past the intial hurdle I started to get a feel for the game, and was enjoying it until yesterday.

After the lightning boss guy (had the same VA as Freeza from DB I think?) I just found the game to start feeling more boring?

I feel way too strong for enemies, and so far there’s no new enemy types, and the levels are all starting to looo and feel the same.

Has anyone else had this? Or is it basically if I feel this now I won’t enjoy the rest of the game period.

Thanks all!

well if u dont like something then just stop doing or playing it lol
asking other ppls wont solve anything

[unfallen]

Originally posted by Mr_singah:

Hi all! After getting past the intial hurdle I started to get a feel for the game, and was enjoying it until yesterday.

After the lightning boss guy (had the same VA as Freeza from DB I think?) I just found the game to start feeling more boring?

I feel way too strong for enemies, and so far there’s no new enemy types, and the levels are all starting to looo and feel the same.

Has anyone else had this? Or is it basically if I feel this now I won’t enjoy the rest of the game period.

Thanks all!

You REALLY need to get deep and dive into the game mechanics and what it has to offer and understand how it all works to enjoy it. And let me tell you the game has A LOT to offer you and so have to learn a lot of things.

[⭕TheSodaman]

Originally posted by Mr_singah:

I’m about 10 hours started to feel bored, is this normal?
Hi all! After getting past the intial hurdle I started to get a feel for the game, and was enjoying it until yesterday.

After the lightning boss guy (had the same VA as Freeza from DB I think?) I just found the game to start feeling more boring?

I feel way too strong for enemies, and so far there’s no new enemy types, and the levels are all starting to looo and feel the same.

Has anyone else had this? Or is it basically if I feel this now I won’t enjoy the rest of the game period.

Thanks all!

Hi Mr. Singah,

I think that's normal for games that don't quite scratch the fulfillment itch or have enough factors that detract from your fulfillment. Had it happen to me on Dark Souls 1 and Code Vein. It's not that they were bad games or that some part of me didn't enjoy them. Code Vein, I enjoyed the characters and story, not too fond of the gameplay mechanics or the animations. Dark Souls, being a hollow and the story wore my drive for the game.

For Nioh 2, I think you've given the game a fair shake to feel whether or not you are going to enjoy it further. Sometimes walking away from something and coming back with a fresh or different mindset can help toward the fulfillment or enjoyment factor. I'd say skipping side missions may reduce some of the burnout if you continue to play sooner than later.

Aesthetics wise, you'll encounter more feudal Japanese structures, so more wood floors, paper sliding doors, gated fortifications, shrines, trees, and some mountains or caves in varied states of decay or distortion.

[Yal]

Originally posted by Mr_singah:

Hi all! After getting past the intial hurdle I started to get a feel for the game, and was enjoying it until yesterday.

After the lightning boss guy (had the same VA as Freeza from DB I think?) I just found the game to start feeling more boring?

I feel way too strong for enemies, and so far there’s no new enemy types, and the levels are all starting to looo and feel the same.

Has anyone else had this? Or is it basically if I feel this now I won’t enjoy the rest of the game period.

Thanks all!

The "real" game starts once you beat the normal final boss and unlock the higher difficulties, the missions are remixed with new more challenging enemy placement (also new enemies, enemies being promoted to more difficult varieties), extra Dark Realms, enemies with permanent buffs and so on. I also was a bit disappointed through the middle of the game (it gets REALLY easy at points and you fight a lot of humanoids) but if you can persevere it'll pick up. Redoing a mission on a higher difficulty almost feels like an entirely new mission, there's a lot of "gotcha" moments and the buffs to enemy movement/attack speed does a lot more to increase the difficulty than their ATK/DEF stats.

(The equipment micromanagement also gets more fun in higher difficulties when you get more upgrade options and access to more powerful effects)