ONI SOULS

It’s a yokai for a yokai in NIOH 2: THE COMPLETE EDITION.

By Oscar Taylor-Kent

Stumbling into the first boss after slashing through a riverside village beset by demons, I begin to chip away at a screen-dominating health bar with my looted purple ninja knife. Little falls off before it roars, plunging me into a dark world and then summarily killing me with its saw-bladed cleaver. “Yeah, yeah,” I nod, “I’ve played Dark Souls, I know you’re not meant to be able to beat the first boss. It’s just flavour.” Then I respawn, and realise this is just the start of the mountain to come after all. The large arsenal of possible weapons aren’t your only tools for spilling hot yokai blood. Your custom character is half-yokai themselves. Not only does this mean you can spend meter to enter a powered-up state of demon-slapping fury,…

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PC Gamer United Kingdom (Digital) - 1 Issue, April 2021

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