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Nioh 2

Nioh 2 is a 2020 action role-playing game developed by Team Ninja and published by Koei Tecmo, and a prequel to the original Nioh. Set in Sengoku-era Japan, it follows Hide, a half-yokai shiftling who fights alongside the historical Tokichiro on the road that leads him to become Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and it ends where the first game's story begins. Combat is built on three stances per weapon, a Ki Pulse that purifies the yokai realms enemies create, and a Burst Counter that turns an enemy's glowing red attack into an opening. Its defining addition over the first game is the yokai half: Hide can collect Soul Cores from defeated monsters, shift into a yokai form with a Guardian Spirit's power, and spend Amrita on a dedicated Shiftling skill tree. The game uses Team Ninja's loot-driven structure, with randomly rolled gear affixes, forging and soul matching at the blacksmith, and co-operative play for up to three players.

• Three Stances per Weapon: every weapon family carries High, Mid and Low stances that trade damage, reach, Ki cost and dodge behaviour, so the same weapon plays differently in each stance.
• Ki Pulse and Yokai Realms: attacking drains Ki, and a timed Ki Pulse after a combo refunds it while purging the dark realms yokai spread across the arena.
• Burst Counter: enemies telegraph their heaviest attacks in red, and Brute, Feral and Phantom forms each answer them with a different counter that breaks the attack and opens a punish window.
• Yokai Shift: filling the Amrita gauge lets Hide transform into a yokai form shaped by the equipped Guardian Spirit, replacing normal combat with heavy attacks and a duration-limited power state.
• Soul Cores: defeated yokai drop cores that can be attuned and cast as their own attacks, giving every build a small library of monster abilities alongside its weapon skills.
• Guardian Spirits: one primary and one secondary spirit supply passive stats, a summonable attack and the yokai form used during Yokai Shift.
• Loot, Forging and Soul Matching: gear drops with random rarity, levels and affixes, and the blacksmith reforges, tempers and fuses items to carry bonuses forward.
• Co-operative Play: Benevolent Graves and expedition mode let up to three players clear missions together, with the difficulty scaling to the party.