Is Nioh 1 worth playing if I already played 600 hours of Nioh 2?

[Dweller Beyond the Threshold]

I started with Nioh 2 and it immediately became one of my favorite games of all time. I'm still playing Nioh 2 now, but seeing Nioh on sale makes me wonder if I should give it a try. But just few things that make me a bit hesitant:
- lack of character creator. The character creation tools in Nioh 2 is one of the best I've encountered in all video games. It's just so amazing and it's a pity that we can only play as William (and other skins but then lose the ability to customize armors)
- less weapons. I absolutely love fists, splitstaff and switchglaive from Nioh 2 and it would suck not having them as options.
- I heard the level design in 1 is pretty mediocre.

So I want to know if there are some pros of Nioh 1 that should make me play it despite the flaws above. Please let me know! Thanks.

[Leon]

the lack of character creation is because the main character has specific unique traits to him, and back story, who he is, where he comes from, what does he wants, what is he seeking, etc.

sure, might have less weapons, but the amount of different and unique play styles still exist.

level design was fine, probably people who dont like missions type souls like were upset about it as not being an open world.

[Squerol]

Level design is fine, most of complains came from ''souls veterans'' because it was mission based.

About weapons You still have many weapon types.

Imo You should play it mostly because one thing which Nioh 1 did better - human enemies boss fights. Nioh 2 has better demon bosses, Nioh 1 has better human bosses. Still You will miss burst counters and yokai abilities so much :/

Also William looks like gigachad - he is so perfect that no possiblity to create own look is understandable.

[Dweller Beyond the Threshold]

Alright thanks :)

[Squerol]

also I've forgot to mention - equipment sets bonuses are better designed in Nioh1 - well at least until ng++++ when grace sets kicks in because in contrary to Nioh 1 I've didn't touched any ng+ mode in Nioh 2 so I don't know if they get any better.

[Trehek]

I'd say it's well worth the on-sale price just to experience the levels and story. Less weapons, less monsters and less options in general means that it might not hold you as long as Nioh 2 does, but who knows! I've enjoyed both games, and now after Elden Ring I recently got the urge to come back, and I've enjoyed every second of my replay of Way of the Samurai. I'm on the second DLC now.

[Dweller Beyond the Threshold]

Originally posted by Trehek:

I'd say it's well worth the on-sale price just to experience the levels and story. Less weapons, less monsters and less options in general means that it might not hold you as long as Nioh 2 does, but who knows! I've enjoyed both games, and now after Elden Ring I recently got the urge to come back, and I've enjoyed every second of my replay of Way of the Samurai. I'm on the second DLC now.

yup that's what I'm thinking too, thanks :)

[Heavenly Demon]

Play it, even if it has some things not so good compared to Nioh 2, it is definitely still a great game that is tremendously more difficult than 2, this is an aspect to take into account, whether the bosses and enemies, Nioh 1 is much, much more difficult and in my opinion that makes it more fun

Just play it as if you were playing a new game, don't constantly compare the two games or you will ruin the experience

[Jacob]

Me 300+ hrs of Nioh 1 (only cleared abyss 30ish) and 300+ hrs of Nioh 2 (cleared abysee lvl 108) on PS4 pro. Game is fun and fairly hard until way of the nioh difficulty and Abyss level, when enemy keeps one shot me haha. The very late post game is unfairly hard unless you have God level skills or build super tanky, or use living weapon cheat build. Still recommend on PC I guess maybe you can use cheat engine to practice or try different builds without spending hundreds of hrs of farming.

[Squerol]

Originally posted by Jacob:

Me 300+ hrs of Nioh 1 (only cleared abyss 30ish) and 300+ hrs of Nioh 2 (cleared abysee lvl 108) on PS4 pro. Game is fun and fairly hard until way of the nioh difficulty and Abyss level, when enemy keeps one shot me haha. The very late post game is unfairly hard unless you have God level skills or build super tanky, or use living weapon cheat build. Still recommend on PC I guess maybe you can use cheat engine to practice or try different builds without spending hundreds of hrs of farming.

Well on PC with cheat engine You can even speed up enemies separately to player to increase difficulty even more.

[你的老妈究竟有几个啊]

Both nioh are my favorite game I have about 600 hours played. I beat nioh 1 then nioh 2 on pc. Back then I felt like nioh 2 is a much better game. It feels more fair since there are always burst counter. Then I got the ps5 nioh collection and beat them both. Now I appreciated nioh1 a lot more. I think nioh 1 is just as good as nioh 2 but different. First of all living weapon is very op in nioh 1 so whenever I want a easy time I can use it. It's also very good for fighting multiple enemies. Magic is always op even in ng+++++. Bosses don't spam other realm when they are out of stamina. Enemies has a reasonable health bar.
Whenever I don't use living weapon nioh1 takes more skill than nioh2. Because in nioh 2 I find myself guarding most of time waiting for chance to burst counter so I can attack. Which is a very safe way to play. Also Stamina management is not as important, I can always yokai shift whenever I'm running out of stamina. Enemies are weaker but has a ♥♥♥♥ ton of health. If you love nioh2, then nioh1 is a must play.

[Grifter]

No. Nioh is tedious and repetitive. If you can make it past the first region, you've already completed the game because it's just more of the same but with more hits to make it happen.