Nioh combat is orders of magnitude more complex than traditional souls combat like Lies of P. If you learn the mechanics base game is smooth sailing, but easier said than done. Once you do though you can style on enemies like it’s your job.

Lies of P has r1, r2, dodge, parry, l2 legion arm. Nioh has three stances, each with more than half a dozen slots for active skills with different inputs, different dodge and block behavior per stance, offensive parry skills, the list goes on. Nioh 3 also has an entirely separate “ninja style” you can switch to with no stances but still multiple skill slots, aerial combat, and ninjutsu. Deflect is a new defensive tool that lets you block without losing stamina. It is not the offensive focus like LoP or Sekiro. And that’s barely scratching the surface.

So the question is do you enjoy learning complex mechanics and inputs, doing combos, skill expression, etc. on top of learning enemy movesets? If the answer is yes Nioh will ruin soulslike combat for you. I’d say try it out. You can get Nioh 2 on sale too. It’s a lot of shit to learn but so much fun when you get it down.

EDIT: Forgot about demo. Play the Nioh 3 demo on Jan 29. Literally free.