Side note-Another thing I positively adore in Nioh: REFORGE. The fact that you can make any item look like any other item of the same variety should become standard in games that feature visible changes, lord knows in other games I've stuck with weaker equipment because I felt the stronger items made me look like an asshole. Here, you can find the exact look you like, and stick with it. Fantastic.
Also note there's Ki Pulses on dodges/dashes Which is important because a dash is often the fastest way to cancel, as well as fastest way to reset your base combo for most weapons, all while being the safest type of Ki Pulse. The trade-off is that it offers the least Ki regen (because the very act of dashing uses more Ki than Ki Flux or standard Ki Pulse)
I originally had a mention of the dodge ki pulse trick in the script but it sort of screwed with the pacing of the video so I took it out. I think there's a clip of me doing it somewhere in the video. But yeah, you're right. It can be useful but considering it doesn't also gel with Flux I always find myself going for the traditional ki-pulse rather than the dodge. It's also got the same sort of principle in terms of timing it late rather than early and so putting your neck on the line.
Nioh has SUPERB combat and I love it, but the Diablo loot style kinda ruined the game for me, constantly having to stop the flow of play to optimize my armor and weapons. I find it even... stupid, that they give you a fast-paced agressive-rewarding combat system that's fluid and fun, and then force you to stop EVERYTHING mid-mission or in-between missions to switch up your gear entirely.
i beat the alpha without knowing what ki pulse was, i just thought it was a neat particle attached to a pretty primitive stance system a la DMC4. after having completed the game i'm convinced it's genius. kind of like how DMC is designed around pushing the player towards higher difficulties by giving you such an expansive toolset that normal difficulties become kind of a bore, Nioh's method of pushing the player into higher level play all revolves around the core concept of a gameplay model they're more than likely already familiar with. just manage your stamina properly and utilize the skills you gain access to when necessary. one of the things i quickly noticed playing the game was that different stances had different invincibility qualities on their dodge, and after unlocking ki pulse during a dodge as well as flux, i would slowly begin to "double-tap" dodges by first shifting into low stance for the flux bonus and then hitting X again for a much more buff dodge losing me exactly zero ki in the long run. this mechanical math all happens before you start getting into broken stuff like onmyo buff stacking, rather than being sadistic it's a neat design that encourages you to always be firing on all cylinders during combat and it's absolutely thrilling (even when the enemy variety is kind of low). great video man.
Whenever you reload your weapon a bar appears underneath your ammo. Towards the end of this bar is a small sliver of white space. If you time the reload so that you hit that small white space your reload is immediately finished and your new magazine does extra damage. The risk is that if you mistime it your weapon jams and your reload takes a lot longer. It's a pretty neat mechanic.
I instantly felt bad for putting down gears for so long after hearing about that mechanic and how the movement works. At first I thought it just looked like some generic boring military shooter but actually playing it feels really good and the way how the cover and shooting mechanics work are pretty cool and things that I'd say it does better than a majority of TPS's that come out these days.
TacoCookiez explains the Active Reload for the most part. However, they missed a few details. When you reload a weapon, you're given a HUD timeline/time-slider for that weapon's reload. Within that timeline, you're given a marker (Usually differently placed within the timeline per weapon), which if you hit the reload button/key perfectly on, you'll be given a temporary performance bonus to the weapon such as a damage increase for the Lancer assault rifle, fire-rate increase for the Boltok hand cannon or a faster arc-alignment for the Torque Bow. There often is a faded white 'room for error' surrounding or following this marker which if the reload button/key is hit, will grant a faster reload, rewarding players for trying to perfect their reload, but coming close enough. If the player is too early or too late (Alas hitting reload again within the black bar), the player is penalised with a longer/fumbled reload, characterised by fumbled/jammed animations. The player's movement is never hampered by any of this, but the player cannot swap weapons after pressing reload during the reload sequence, so one who fails the reload has to wait until the weapon is loaded before being able to fight back.
Im 3 years late, just wanted to say I'm pretty sure you can totally shoot that lady boss out of the air, and doing so leaves her open to do a lot of damage. God damn I love this game and I love Nioh 2
dont remember how i stumbled on this channel,but mate u just got a sub.ur writing is clear,concise,witty and informative.Then the content.....not ur average review,walkthrough,preview rinse and repeat cycle.More power to u mate.Hope the channel grows.
Have you played them since? I’ve finished the Ps3 versions of 1 and 2 twice, last time just recently, and I’m looking forward to playing them again on the Master Collection on my PS5, although it isn’t really much of an upgrade. I also own the Nioh Collection which I have never played, but is clearly a great game combat wise, Team Ninja know their thing, I hope they will make a Ninja Gaiden Reboot or sequel, preferably a reboot
*"It's busting my balls, but I love it."* is the highest praise one can give to a video game. Fuck all that mature cinematic experience bullshit that the critics are gushing over and giving perfect scores to.
It's an interesting mechanic for sure, but I really can't say I'm enjoying it. I end up feeling like I'm playing a stamina metagame rather than focusing on how cool the combat is. Maybe that will change in time, maybe not.
Bit late, I know. If you do some invest time into learning the ins and outs of the combat system, this will change quite drastically. See XLHGladiator for reference. He still makes Nioh content today and, while he is one of the people who just "gets" spectacle fighters on a level that few others do, he also does some tutorial videos here and there.
I find myself returning to these videos and agreeing with them more and more. Wish Turbo Button would return one of these days; there's a deficit on terse insight when it comes to gaming channels.
I love Nioh's combat it's the best souls style combat. Unfortunately this is where it's superiority to the souls series stops, the level design, loot system, and enemy variety are all much inferior to souls' series, i hope Nioh 2 can improve on these issues
@@leeyin8937 Maybe the design of the enemies but i mean the variety of enemies you encounter. Most of the time it's the same old yokai and corrupted skeletons
Haven't played this yet. I'm glad it seems like this game encourages a more aggressive playstyle. I've played Dark Souls a bunch, and I'd always play it very defensively, so hopefully this will be a nice change of pace.
God i fucking love nioh , i was a darksouls fanboy but i never replayed any of the darksouls games more than once , but this game i just couldn't put it down , playing till this day , the depth of the combat system is really what pulled me in.
I really like how you articulate yourself; great choice of words and phrasing makes it seem like explaining the concept is pretty easy, but it's a pretty ethereal concept and difficult to put into words how it works and why it's great I keep coming back to this video because of that
I`ve been and still am a PC player all my life. Still for the last 2 years I`ve bought 6 consoles - PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4 and XBOX 360 and not sorry even once. I strongly recommend the PS3 or PS4 because of the (rarity these days really) exclusives. Really recommend - The last of us, Uncharted 4 and Horizon Zero Dawn is also decent (no it's not freaking amazing as everyone says). Unfortunately there are not as many exclusives like as back in the days because money grabbing machines (aka. game developers) make 95% of the games cross platform these day. Xbox one has yet to deliver a substantial amount of good exclusive games to be worth buying especially for a guy like me that owns a PC. PC delivers a different experience than a console. Not better or bad, just different. Oh I forgot, I got Nioh too and it's pretty good definitely worth buying.
first they did a alpha and beta test for this game just to test how the game would have to be balanced so they def knew what they had to do and see what worked and what didnt and ki plus system is fuckin brilliant and its the one thing that sets it apart from its competition
Nioh looks amazing but I haven't gotten it. I also wish you could play as Okatsu or another lady characters. Because kickass ladies man. But that's minor, I could get slashing with Bushido Bill anytime... well, as soon as I get it, of course.
I've played Bloodborne a bit after a lot of Nioh (cos I'm tired of it, sadly it has its issues) and it feels so weird twiddling your thumbs waiting for your stamina to come back.
Although the art style, story and general level design in Nioh are worse than those of Dark Souls, I think the combat is that much more engaging and managed to keep my interest to the very end. Something none of the Souls games have managed to do.
I didn't much care about this game until I watched this video, but I don't want to buy a PS4 for 2 games, I will just wish on a wishing well that TK ports it to PC like a lot of their other games, but I get the feeling this is either published by Sony or TK just have 0 interest in a PC port, can't make too much money I guess. "TK" stupid name change
I actually think people should be comparing Nioh to Bloodborne than Dark Souls. but above all, i think people shouldn't compare this to any From Soft game
The problem with that comparison is that Bloodborne's Rally system stops being useful pretty quickly. Blood Vials heal much more and are much safer to utilize, and they're not exactly in short supply. Also, enemies start hitting pretty fucking hard even with high HP investment. Factor in the game's low hitstun from the player's weapons and other shit like enemy hyper armor, and it's seems like the devs stopped thinking about the Rally system when developing everything after the first few areas.
The ki system is awesome. Games these days undervalue finger dexterity. But they're exactly the reason why DmC combos aren't impressive. Even the Platinum games which have very flashy combos fail to impress unless it's a maximization of panther offset where you basically only see wicked weaves.
Must be VashTSB. The 12 year old Enemy Sniper. He was pissed off as fuck when Turbo showed footage of DMC4. He was all like: "That MY GAME Jon! MY GAME! MY SERIES! THATS ME!" Yup thats my headcanon.
Nioh is a massive disappointment. You keep mentioning Team Ninja like this game is any continuation of their previous action titles, it isn't. It ended up being a straight up Souls clone only with no enemy or environment variety to distract from the monotonous gameplay. It does not encourage an aggressive playstyle at all, in fact the most effective way to play is to just do boring bait and counter tactics since the AI is brain dead and stupid easy to exploit, or you know, you can just use one of the myriad of broken abilities that break the game.
Well of course. It was marketed as a soulslike and the best way to play any game is to lame it out. This game however doesn't force you to lame it out. The best way to play any game is never to be active, and a broken ability is just added fun if you pull it off. It's not like you are forced to use them. That's literally every action game ever made. Just look at bloodborne's health recovery after you take a hit by attacking your opponent. No one does it, but it's allowed. It incentives you attack after being attacked, but it's literally one of the worst options you can do.
lol monotonous gameplay? This game has way better combat than any soulsborne game and the bosses actually has a flow in their fights. Maybe you're just not good enough for this game lol. Look at this video for instance of what the gameplay and combat can offer: ua-cam.com/video/b7yMhSCL9ug/v-deo.html Now fuck off and git gud.
Yes, there's lot of attacks, skills, and stuff you can do, but the risk is too high when the low risk approach gives pretty much the same reward. I've beaten Ninja Gaiden sigma 1 and 2 in most difficulties, and in those games, there's no low risk option, so you are forced to use the most of every skill, moving and attacking constantly. The difference between these two games, is that Ninja gaiden has normal mode, which is a difficulty that allows you to learn to use all of the hard tech without punishing you too hard for failing to use them, while Nioh always punishes you, with most enemies being able to kill you in a couple attacks, so what do you do? You stick to the stuff that works and has no punishment. Btw, to the guy that says the recovery system in BB is not used, me and everyone i've seen play the game uses it and abuses it.
Side note-Another thing I positively adore in Nioh: REFORGE. The fact that you can make any item look like any other item of the same variety should become standard in games that feature visible changes, lord knows in other games I've stuck with weaker equipment because I felt the stronger items made me look like an asshole. Here, you can find the exact look you like, and stick with it. Fantastic.
Also note there's Ki Pulses on dodges/dashes
Which is important because a dash is often the fastest way to cancel, as well as fastest way to reset your base combo for most weapons, all while being the safest type of Ki Pulse.
The trade-off is that it offers the least Ki regen (because the very act of dashing uses more Ki than Ki Flux or standard Ki Pulse)
I originally had a mention of the dodge ki pulse trick in the script but it sort of screwed with the pacing of the video so I took it out. I think there's a clip of me doing it somewhere in the video.
But yeah, you're right. It can be useful but considering it doesn't also gel with Flux I always find myself going for the traditional ki-pulse rather than the dodge. It's also got the same sort of principle in terms of timing it late rather than early and so putting your neck on the line.
Your stick figure drawings are on point.
Nioh has SUPERB combat and I love it, but the Diablo loot style kinda ruined the game for me, constantly having to stop the flow of play to optimize my armor and weapons.
I find it even... stupid, that they give you a fast-paced agressive-rewarding combat system that's fluid and fun, and then force you to stop EVERYTHING mid-mission or in-between missions to switch up your gear entirely.
i beat the alpha without knowing what ki pulse was, i just thought it was a neat particle attached to a pretty primitive stance system a la DMC4. after having completed the game i'm convinced it's genius.
kind of like how DMC is designed around pushing the player towards higher difficulties by giving you such an expansive toolset that normal difficulties become kind of a bore, Nioh's method of pushing the player into higher level play all revolves around the core concept of a gameplay model they're more than likely already familiar with. just manage your stamina properly and utilize the skills you gain access to when necessary.
one of the things i quickly noticed playing the game was that different stances had different invincibility qualities on their dodge, and after unlocking ki pulse during a dodge as well as flux, i would slowly begin to "double-tap" dodges by first shifting into low stance for the flux bonus and then hitting X again for a much more buff dodge losing me exactly zero ki in the long run.
this mechanical math all happens before you start getting into broken stuff like onmyo buff stacking, rather than being sadistic it's a neat design that encourages you to always be firing on all cylinders during combat and it's absolutely thrilling (even when the enemy variety is kind of low).
great video man.
I wish people would make more comparisons to Gears of Wars Active reload.
Or that more games used it because reloading is shit in them.
Never played Gears actually. How does it work, is it like the Vanquish reload cancel or what?
Whenever you reload your weapon a bar appears underneath your ammo. Towards the end of this bar is a small sliver of white space. If you time the reload so that you hit that small white space your reload is immediately finished and your new magazine does extra damage. The risk is that if you mistime it your weapon jams and your reload takes a lot longer. It's a pretty neat mechanic.
I instantly felt bad for putting down gears for so long after hearing about that mechanic and how the movement works. At first I thought it just looked like some generic boring military shooter but actually playing it feels really good and the way how the cover and shooting mechanics work are pretty cool and things that I'd say it does better than a majority of TPS's that come out these days.
TacoCookiez explains the Active Reload for the most part. However, they missed a few details.
When you reload a weapon, you're given a HUD timeline/time-slider for that weapon's reload. Within that timeline, you're given a marker (Usually differently placed within the timeline per weapon), which if you hit the reload button/key perfectly on, you'll be given a temporary performance bonus to the weapon such as a damage increase for the Lancer assault rifle, fire-rate increase for the Boltok hand cannon or a faster arc-alignment for the Torque Bow. There often is a faded white 'room for error' surrounding or following this marker which if the reload button/key is hit, will grant a faster reload, rewarding players for trying to perfect their reload, but coming close enough. If the player is too early or too late (Alas hitting reload again within the black bar), the player is penalised with a longer/fumbled reload, characterised by fumbled/jammed animations. The player's movement is never hampered by any of this, but the player cannot swap weapons after pressing reload during the reload sequence, so one who fails the reload has to wait until the weapon is loaded before being able to fight back.
Im 3 years late, just wanted to say I'm pretty sure you can totally shoot that lady boss out of the air, and doing so leaves her open to do a lot of damage. God damn I love this game and I love Nioh 2
So, can we say that this game encourages *the player* to raise the risks?
Nioh is ahead of the curve
dont remember how i stumbled on this channel,but mate u just got a sub.ur writing is clear,concise,witty and informative.Then the content.....not ur average review,walkthrough,preview rinse and repeat cycle.More power to u mate.Hope the channel grows.
Joe anime anderson told me to give it a try.
4 years later I’m still playing this game, it made me actually buy the Ninja Gaiden Master collection because I couldn’t get enough.
Have you played them since? I’ve finished the Ps3 versions of 1 and 2 twice, last time just recently, and I’m looking forward to playing them again on the Master Collection on my PS5, although it isn’t really much of an upgrade. I also own the Nioh Collection which I have never played, but is clearly a great game combat wise, Team Ninja know their thing, I hope they will make a Ninja Gaiden Reboot or sequel, preferably a reboot
*"It's busting my balls, but I love it."* is the highest praise one can give to a video game.
Fuck all that mature cinematic experience bullshit that the critics are gushing over and giving perfect scores to.
I just got this on PC and am loving it. The combat is amazing. Not sure if I can go back to Dark Souls after I'm done with it.
Too bad a skill based game has an RNG stat system for weapons and armor like Borderlands.
Ah Nioh. A fantastic game on launch that got worse because of rebalancing a perfectly balanced game :(
It's an interesting mechanic for sure, but I really can't say I'm enjoying it. I end up feeling like I'm playing a stamina metagame rather than focusing on how cool the combat is. Maybe that will change in time, maybe not.
Bit late, I know. If you do some invest time into learning the ins and outs of the combat system, this will change quite drastically. See XLHGladiator for reference. He still makes Nioh content today and, while he is one of the people who just "gets" spectacle fighters on a level that few others do, he also does some tutorial videos here and there.
It's like driving a car. Once you master it, it becomes second nature
I find myself returning to these videos and agreeing with them more and more.
Wish Turbo Button would return one of these days; there's a deficit on terse insight when it comes to gaming channels.
What's the name of the music you used ?
I love Nioh's combat it's the best souls style combat. Unfortunately this is where it's superiority to the souls series stops, the level design, loot system, and enemy variety are all much inferior to souls' series, i hope Nioh 2 can improve on these issues
@@leeyin8937 Maybe the design of the enemies but i mean the variety of enemies you encounter. Most of the time it's the same old yokai and corrupted skeletons
@@leeyin8937 Yeah that seems fair
But the biggest problem i have with Nioh is the level design so i hope Nioh 2 will have good levels
Nothing causes as much passive anxiety in videogames as Nioh's randomized loot system.
Haven't played this yet. I'm glad it seems like this game encourages a more aggressive playstyle.
I've played Dark Souls a bunch, and I'd always play it very defensively, so hopefully this will be a nice change of pace.
God i fucking love nioh , i was a darksouls fanboy but i never replayed any of the darksouls games more than once , but this game i just couldn't put it down , playing till this day , the depth of the combat system is really what pulled me in.
Just came from Joseph Anderson's Prey video. Now I'm gonna stick here for a while.
souls series kinda sucks
I really like how you articulate yourself; great choice of words and phrasing makes it seem like explaining the concept is pretty easy, but it's a pretty ethereal concept and difficult to put into words how it works and why it's great
I keep coming back to this video because of that
People saying Nioh is like Dark Souls.
Bitch, this game is closer to *Ninja Gaiden* than anything!
Why on Earth does William sound Irish when he was English. Fuck sake... It's a no buy from me.
Please make more videos! I've already binge watched your back catalog and I hunger for more!!
Now if only the game had more than three different enemy types to really take advantage of the combat system.
What? it's an exaggeration, but it might as well be true. Thinking back I can barely think of more than five or so different enemy types to fight.
@@synysterdawn8913 some games pull it off with one
Finally, a second reason to buy a PS4!
what's the first?
spooky souls I assume
Akatsubasa Dankborne and Brevity Rush 2
I`ve been and still am a PC player all my life. Still for the last 2 years I`ve bought 6 consoles - PS1, PS2, PS3, PS4 and XBOX 360 and not sorry even once. I strongly recommend the PS3 or PS4 because of the (rarity these days really) exclusives. Really recommend - The last of us, Uncharted 4 and Horizon Zero Dawn is also decent (no it's not freaking amazing as everyone says). Unfortunately there are not as many exclusives like as back in the days because money grabbing machines (aka. game developers) make 95% of the games cross platform these day. Xbox one has yet to deliver a substantial amount of good exclusive games to be worth buying especially for a guy like me that owns a PC. PC delivers a different experience than a console. Not better or bad, just different. Oh I forgot, I got Nioh too and it's pretty good definitely worth buying.
codemasterz
Why everyone having the chance to play games on the platform of their choice should be a bad thing?
By the way, NIOH is coming to PC.
first they did a alpha and beta test for this game just to test how the game would have to be balanced so they def knew what they had to do and see what worked and what didnt and ki plus system is fuckin brilliant and its the one thing that sets it apart from its competition
This game looks inanely fun but I am a pussy when it comes to hard games lol.
TurboBUTT...
...on.
God i love this joke.
Great video, makes me wish this game was on PC. It's nice to see a souls-like that actually changes something meaningful about the formula
I would say it has a different formula to begin with rather than "changing." What would it even change from if this is an original?
I really hate seeing these massive item lists.
Joseph Anderson sent me here. Great stuff
Nioh looks amazing but I haven't gotten it. I also wish you could play as Okatsu or another lady characters. Because kickass ladies man. But that's minor, I could get slashing with Bushido Bill anytime... well, as soon as I get it, of course.
Your videos are great
Subbed for future coverage on Sekriro,Babylon's fall and other TN, FS and Platinum games
Shammy sent me and I am glad I came
I've played Bloodborne a bit after a lot of Nioh (cos I'm tired of it, sadly it has its issues) and it feels so weird twiddling your thumbs waiting for your stamina to come back.
200 hours into Nioh and i could never go back to Dark Souls ever again...
everything else feels way too slow compared to it.
6:00 yeah , that just sums the game right up for me , it makes you feel bad-ass if you're willing to put the time in
I must've replayed that last part over about 6 or 7 times, I fucking love seeing shit like that!
I was trying to explain exactly this to my friends but you've done that more coherently. Now I can just show them this.
"and I love it"
>Show spider lady
I see you are also a man of culture
Although the art style, story and general level design in Nioh are worse than those of Dark Souls, I think the combat is that much more engaging and managed to keep my interest to the very end. Something none of the Souls games have managed to do.
or just buy the dodge flux skill BOOM you beat the game GG
Nioh is truly an amazing game 😍 Currently level 122 and stil not sick of it 😁
Good analysis!
What's the music you played at the end of the vid? name please.
I didn't much care about this game until I watched this video, but I don't want to buy a PS4 for 2 games, I will just wish on a wishing well that TK ports it to PC like a lot of their other games, but I get the feeling this is either published by Sony or TK just have 0 interest in a PC port, can't make too much money I guess.
"TK" stupid name change
It's out now :)
Every time I see this game, I only think about XLHGladiator. If you want to talk about mad switching and mad men, that guy is something else...
Oh yeah, the guy's a madman. I honestly don't know how he pulls some of that stuff off.
Where were the food puns!?
*Dislike*
Can you make a videos about the souls-series?
I want the last scene with the yokai as a Gif so bad!!!
Cool. Can I pause the game?
my head hurts a little. lol
I love the ki pulse system. it reminds me of Bloodborne's rally system which I thought was an intuitive system for a fast paced game.
I actually think people should be comparing Nioh to Bloodborne than Dark Souls. but above all, i think people shouldn't compare this to any From Soft game
The problem with that comparison is that Bloodborne's Rally system stops being useful pretty quickly. Blood Vials heal much more and are much safer to utilize, and they're not exactly in short supply. Also, enemies start hitting pretty fucking hard even with high HP investment. Factor in the game's low hitstun from the player's weapons and other shit like enemy hyper armor, and it's seems like the devs stopped thinking about the Rally system when developing everything after the first few areas.
You earned the sub
great content mate
The ki system is awesome. Games these days undervalue finger dexterity. But they're exactly the reason why DmC combos aren't impressive. Even the Platinum games which have very flashy combos fail to impress unless it's a maximization of panther offset where you basically only see wicked weaves.
NI OH
Jesus, what's up with the dislikes?
Bots maybe?
GebKazoo yes
Must be VashTSB. The 12 year old Enemy Sniper. He was pissed off as fuck when Turbo showed footage of DMC4. He was all like: "That MY GAME Jon! MY GAME! MY SERIES! THATS ME!"
Yup thats my headcanon.
Didn't he break up with DMC4 a while ago? Isn't he dating her mum now?
is 5 dislikes really that bad?
Holy smokes, I had no idea this game's like that... Now I NEED to buy it.
Nioh is a massive disappointment. You keep mentioning Team Ninja like this game is any continuation of their previous action titles, it isn't. It ended up being a straight up Souls clone only with no enemy or environment variety to distract from the monotonous gameplay. It does not encourage an aggressive playstyle at all, in fact the most effective way to play is to just do boring bait and counter tactics since the AI is brain dead and stupid easy to exploit, or you know, you can just use one of the myriad of broken abilities that break the game.
Well of course. It was marketed as a soulslike and the best way to play any game is to lame it out. This game however doesn't force you to lame it out. The best way to play any game is never to be active, and a broken ability is just added fun if you pull it off. It's not like you are forced to use them. That's literally every action game ever made. Just look at bloodborne's health recovery after you take a hit by attacking your opponent. No one does it, but it's allowed. It incentives you attack after being attacked, but it's literally one of the worst options you can do.
lol monotonous gameplay? This game has way better combat than any soulsborne game and the bosses actually has a flow in their fights. Maybe you're just not good enough for this game lol. Look at this video for instance of what the gameplay and combat can offer:
ua-cam.com/video/b7yMhSCL9ug/v-deo.html
Now fuck off and git gud.
The guy up here gets it. Just git gud, boy. This isn't for you yet. Don't even get near Ninja Gaiden.
Yes, there's lot of attacks, skills, and stuff you can do, but the risk is too high when the low risk approach gives pretty much the same reward.
I've beaten Ninja Gaiden sigma 1 and 2 in most difficulties, and in those games, there's no low risk option, so you are forced to use the most of every skill, moving and attacking constantly.
The difference between these two games, is that Ninja gaiden has normal mode, which is a difficulty that allows you to learn to use all of the hard tech without punishing you too hard for failing to use them, while Nioh always punishes you, with most enemies being able to kill you in a couple attacks, so what do you do? You stick to the stuff that works and has no punishment.
Btw, to the guy that says the recovery system in BB is not used, me and everyone i've seen play the game uses it and abuses it.