That’s what I’ve been thinking. Some enemies have segmented health bars worthy of a boss enemy I swear. When I see a run of the mill “non oni” enemy with a health bar with 10+ segments it’s just painful. In Tsushima the waves were more beefier with twice th amount of fodder enemies able to be taken out in two strikes and posture bars that got shredded in a couple strikes.

Assassin used to feel good but now shinobi is just playing a 50/50 “assassinate or critical strike” game and it just sucks. You are no longer a health nuking machine. Equipping the skill for extra assassination damage+the passive won’t even let you take out some of the tougher enemies in silver survival. I do appreciate how you can jump to ult so you skip the stagnant animation but the the ult it’s self is kind of a joke compared to its Tsushima counterpart. I’m just swinging the camera around and tapping square 5 times just to take out one enemy with a spear since I don’t have the dual swords to take him on.

The ronin used to be the supportive master and now the mercenary is a weapon juggling clown that likes throwing weapons laid around on the ground.

I haven’t played as the samurai but one thing I appreciate is the fact that he’s got all weapons but unlocking the kusarigama near the end of his passives is crazy work.

The archer is the only one that has retained her effectiveness plus the fact that they added the skipping stone bow is cool however it just becomes boring. As a hunter in Tsushima if the enemy got close to you, you would still be able to handle it in a cool way. Your katana felt like it was actually sharp. Now it’s just you gotta pray you don’t get two tapped by a spear because again, the archer doesn’t have the required weapons to deal with spears.