There is a famous movie quote that sticks out to me as I play. From Batman Begins: "A Ninja understands that invisibility is largely a matter of patience and agility.. Always mind your surroundings."
Nioh 2 isn't about stealth(it isn't really much of a thing in Nioh, actually, perhaps outside of sniping) but it is about patience and agility(your controlling), and minding your surroundings. It is about being patient until an opening presents itself and then having the confidence to strike and retreat before you are devoured by whatever horrible yokai you are currently fighting. The genre, whether you call it "Souls-like" or "Soulsborne" or "Masocore" is defined by its difficulty. You go from shrine to shrine which refill your life and respawn most enemies in a level. If you've played Nioh 1, you know what to expect. There is no broad interconnected overworld in Nioh 1 or 2, but the individual stages are packed with personality and challenge. They feel bigger than the first game in every way, and so does their challenge.
I've seen professional reviewers and users comment that Nioh 2 is both more and less difficult than its predecessor. I think that will vary based on your experience with Nioh 1. It certainly builds out from Nioh 1's base by adding more weapons and some interested enemy skill abilities(think E Skill material in FFVII, and just as useful) but at the end of the day you will still be spearfalling to pancake human enemies and it is very similar to the first game. It is the enemies, the yokai realm, and the ki-break systems that have evolved the game into something fresh.
There are tons of enemies, and Nioh 1 already had many. Most of those are back, along with many new ones. I hoped to "learn" all the enemies, but I felt like I never ran out of new ones to have to learn afresh. The enemy variety is crazy. Bosses are seemingly endless and nearly unbeatable(at first). Only by failure and retry will you succeed in most cases.
Ki-pulse makes a comeback. Everything from Nioh 1 has been improved upon. The strength of Nioh 2 is its gameplay. It is like one of the most intricate fighting games ever made baked into a souls like 3rd person action game. You can tell balance with the bosses and each enemy was carefully done. The game is very well made, despite being similar to the first game.
The final thing I want to mention are loading times. I'm on PS4 Pro using an internal SSD, and loads from death are very fast. The overhead for informing me that I actually died, takes up more time than the almost instant loading. Several other games of this type commit the sin of making me spend a long time between death and retry. Nioh 2 is not one of them. Shrine placement and load speed seem to be the best ever for this type of game. The difficulty rather is found in the boss and enemy mechanics.
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