Nioh

I wish I'd liked Nioh more than I did. It feels like all of these souls style games just aren't for me. But gameplay aside, I really like Nioh, as dumb as that sounds. The story isn't really that great, but the characters are really good, and the cutscenes look gorgeous. Plus, there just aren't that many big budget games set in Japanese antiquity.

There's Sekiro, which had it's moments, but I feel like even being a newer game, it didn't look as good as Nioh most of the time. I think that has more to do with different approaches though. They're both dark themed and set pretty close to each other time wise. But Nioh seems like it was more interested in showing beautiful nature, whereas Sekiro more often than not was trying to convey war and decay. I mean you can just look at the two main characters to see this difference.

But ultimately Nioh's more beautiful art direction is much more appealing to me. I could not deal with all the awesome armor sets you get in that game. I was constantly changing into different outfits just to see how they look. Also, the guardian spirits are the cutest fucking things ever.

I don't think I got through all of the dlc in these pictures, but I'm pretty sure I got most of it at least. But anyway. Let's take a look at the pictures.