There’s always a big AAA game in February — last year we had Civilization VII and Kingdom Come: Deliverance II. This time, we got Nioh 3, the latest in the action RPG series from Japanese developer Team Ninja. A meaty demo with around 8 hours of gameplay dropped last week. And I have thoroughly enjoyed every minute of it, even if I now sport new calluses on my thumbs.
For one, Nioh 3 offers open-world regions that allow players more freedom to explore compared with the linear structure of the previous games. It’s not quite to the scale of Elden Ring, and not as open-ended. But it should be familiar to anyone who has played an open-world game.
Anyway, the other big change in Nioh 3, one could potentially turn off Nioh fans, is that you now switch between two styles: Ninja and Samurai. The former is a highly mobile character that relies on quick attacks, evasion and a variety of ninja tools, while the latter, which resembles the gameplay of previous Nioh games, …
