Nioh 2

Nioh 2 is an action role-playing game developed by Team Ninja and Kou Shibusawa. It is both a prequel and sequel to Nioh.

The game was announced at E3 2018 during Sony's press conference. An open beta of the game began on November 1.

The game received mostly positive reviews and sold 2.5 million units by February 2022.

Plot
The game is set in Japan during the late 1500s.

Gameplay

 * Similar to its predecessor, Nioh 2 is an action role-playing game.
 * Players can create their own playable character, who was a yōkai spirit.
 * Players are equipped with a variety of weapons such as odachi and kusarigama, and earn new skills and special abilities as they progress in the game.
 * When players defeat a hostile yōkai, some of them may drop a "Soul Core". Soul Cores allow players to use yōkai abilities once the cores are purified by visiting a shrine.
 * The game also features a three-player cooperative multiplayer mode.

Characters

 * Hide
 * Saitō Dōsan
 * Takenaka Hanbei
 * Hachisuka Koroku
 * Oda Nobunaga
 * Nōhime
 * Oichi
 * Akechi Mitsuhide
 * Shibata Katsuie
 * Saitō Toshimitsu
 * Maeda Toshiie
 * Keiji
 * Imagawa Yoshimoto
 * Saitō Yoshitatsu
 * Magara Naotaka
 * Nagamasa Azai

Yokai

 * Tengu

Trophies
Base Game=
 * -|DLC Pack 1=
 * -|DLC Pack 2=
 * -|DLC Pack 3=

Trivia

 * It was nominated for Best Action at The Game Awards 2020.
 * Nioh 2 won “Best Game You Suck At” on The Steam Awards.
 * Nioh 2 and its first game were the first Koei Tecmo games to published on the Epic Games Store.