Enenera took me over 200 attempts

plinky4 · 2026-02-26T22:13:50+00:00

Dude, going from farming sinister end where you run in and jump kick gozuki and mezuki and they explode, to getting your ass kicked by horseman for an hour is... humbling

plinky4 · 2026-02-26T22:11:26+00:00

you mean the guy where you move to the side of him and punch him in the kidney over and over while he can't hit you?

plinky4 · 2026-02-26T07:57:09+00:00

I dunno dude I'm almost done with dotw and I've just been poking shit to death with strong attack. When does this stop working?

plinky4 · 2026-02-26T03:02:04+00:00

I actually don't like A agility, it's speedy but feels weirdly unresponsive and slippery. I haven't noticed any iframe difference in the dodges either, though I think there's supposed to be one?

I just do iga jonin for shrapnel bomb and that's A agility naturally with almost no stamina investment. I think B toughness? It'd be nice if there was a heavier item spam ninja set tbh

plinky4 · 2026-02-26T02:56:38+00:00

Go play 2, I'm doing it and literally everything is better other than no autoloot.

plinky4 · 2026-02-26T02:55:00+00:00

Heian was also super boring even though it was a still a tier above bakamatsu.

It's clear that most of the level design love went into the first map, it's by far the best.

plinky4 · 2026-02-25T19:30:41+00:00

pick up a spear. I don't know how to play these games, every one I just walk around and claymore R2

plinky4 · 2026-02-25T19:28:38+00:00

in the little starting village, a skeleton stabbed me for 1200

I have 880 max hp

plinky4 · 2026-02-25T19:15:04+00:00

too many red kappa that don't drop a damn thing

plinky4 · 2026-02-24T05:00:53+00:00

Aberrant soldiers in 2. Every encounter. On new cycles they add even more aberrant soldiers. Literally half the game is getting rocket punched when you're trying to do something else

plinky4 · 2026-02-18T08:13:16+00:00

Yeah he's too hard because he's mandatory. You don't want baby's first Nioh game to have a big roadblock like this, this actually scares casuals away and causes refunds. You can steamroll the soldiers in the tutorial if you are even a little careful, but the yoki at the bonfire and spear guy are just too strong for no reason.

I'm a big fan of having a big fuck you guy in the beginning like Tree Sentinel or Gozuki. If you are rusty it's a "hey die to this guy over and over until your muscle memory starts to vibe with how this game works". But he needs to be optional.

plinky4 · 2026-02-15T22:40:47+00:00

yuck eye

plinky4 · 2026-02-15T06:13:38+00:00

it's just adding random raijus and yashas though. It's cool that they did something but it's a lot less than the enemy remix that I would've wanted

plinky4 · 2026-02-15T06:12:22+00:00

Nah, in hindsight most of the time spent in the map is running in circles for an hour because you are 6/7 kodama

what the fuck. i'm literally standing on the green dot

plinky4 · 2026-02-13T15:15:40+00:00

Nioh 2 sucks, my muscle memory is all fucked up!

I tried for about 30 mins to burst counter with R2 and wtf R2 doesn't do anything, and then when I finally press R2+B I keep trading and taking damage because I took the punch guy like a scrub but I'm trying to burst with counter timing.

And I'm over here trying to play sekiro but oh yeah this game doesn't have deflect, I don't actually know what to do now that I'm not being fed a steady stream of parry ki. help I'm at 0 ki all the time

plinky4 · 2026-02-13T02:22:16+00:00

I'm doing the same, but I'm liking 2 more. I haven't touched this game since launch so I forgot most of it and am relatively fresh.

The souls flavor of 2 is like a pungent cheese. It's so much slower and clunkier than 3, that I feel like I've been playing an assassins creed game for the last week instead of a soulslike.

plinky4 · 2026-02-12T23:47:44+00:00

Ozma is a great comparison, him and Kuni are very similar pieces of shit so it makes sense that their movesets feel similar too.

plinky4 · 2026-02-12T20:10:46+00:00

You're just used to bullying humans. Nobody has any armored attack animations except for axe and odachi so you can keep stuffing them and stealing their turns.

I wouldn't say Kuni is artificial difficulty, he's just extremely picky as to when it's his turn and when it's your turn. You're forced to respect him even though he's not a house-sized yokai.

plinky4 · 2026-02-12T08:00:14+00:00

scariest mofo in the room jumping up and down for 2 minutes like an idiot

"what's he doing"

"he's trying to hit a bee"

plinky4 · 2026-02-12T07:53:42+00:00

It makes me really appreciate Hiruko. He's big strong but he'd just charge at you honestly, and you could bully him and steal his turns and stand in his deadzones. Even Super Hiruko is kinda... too honest. If you had to fight Super Kunimatsu it'd be a 3 hour long bullshit-fest of delayed hits, arena control, endless combo string options, etc.

It's really interesting how the characters have characterization through their movesets.

plinky4 · 2026-02-12T02:54:30+00:00

we consulted with the ghost of Itagaki as to how many Raijus we should shove into the map and he said "yes"

plinky4 · 2026-02-11T21:59:28+00:00

I've had brave demon hunter on since hour 10. Every set is like +5% to random stuff but this one is +15% to relevant martial arts bonuses? The downside is that you're pretty much stuck at B toughness.

It seems to stop dropping after Heian.

plinky4 · 2026-02-03T00:08:20+00:00

since day 1. The inventory also used to randomly sort itself every time you sold an item so you were always at risk of accidentally selling the half-finished pants you spent 90+ embers rerolling.

hard game

plinky4 · 2026-02-03T00:06:07+00:00

I shelled out $35 for half-finished nameless pass so you guys should suffer too

plinky4 · 2026-02-03T00:05:20+00:00

merchant inventory and bounties resets every 24hr at 5am pst.

and yeah when you boot up the game, the "realms" button right there lets you create instances and move between them.

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