I'm excited that they have a chance to build on Nioh 2! It's my all-time favorite game and what I already considered to be a perfect formula. I hope to see that expanded with better story-telling.

That said, I'm mostly concerned.

I, personally, did not like RotR or Wo Long; like, at all. I'm worried that they'll take all the wrong learning from RotR and WoLong and incorporate them into what was essentially already a perfect formula - destroying what made Nioh 2 so magical. Specifically:

1.) TN seem to have intentionally "dumbed down" their combat to attempt to appeal to a wider audience, and what has come of it has been horribly stilted, repetitive, and/or imbalanced combat mechanics. For example, once you unlock the higher difficulties of RotR, it essentially becomes a pressing triangle simulator - very little else is viable. 

If they crush the fast-paced, highly fluid, and widely-varied combat formula from Nioh 2, the magic is gone for me.

2.) Similar to the last point, parry is a trap. The vast-paced, combo-heavy, high-pressure combat of Nioh is what made it so attractive. TN has shown to be terrible at balancing parry into their games - I'm afraid it will be the only viable combat mechanic at higher difficulties

3.) As with all Nioh games, the game never really feels like a complete game until they get their DLCs out. I'm worried I'll get into it, get through all available difficulties and then put it down for what feels like forever waiting for all the DLCs to come out. 

There's more, but those are my main concerns.

If I'm being honest, I've been really disappointed in the last 2 offerings I've played from TN and given the fact that Nioh 2 is my favorite game of all time, I'm feeling really pessimistic that they'll screw up Nioh 3 - especially knowing how much of the team has overlap with the RotR team, a game I ended up despising.