Almost as soon as you set foot into Nioh 3’s first open-world zone, during the Warring States period, you’ll stumble across a Spirit Vein. In fact, there are two not far from where you enter the Tenryu River. If you walk up to these glowing spots, you won’t be able to interact with them whatsoever,…
Nioh 3 has a lot of different levers you can use to increase your power, from raising your stats to spending locks on skills, getting new gear, and earning titles. One of the easiest methods is using slottable skills you’ll find from chests or get by completing various activities. However, you can only activate so…
Working out how to unlock parry in Nioh 3 will be a great addition to your offensive and defensive capabilities. Unlike Sekiro, the parry in Nioh 3 is purely defensive in that it doesn’t damage enemy Ki (stamina) so it never leads to a stagger and a Grapple attack. It does, however, give you Ki…
Puzzling out how to respec in Nioh 3 will be a real eye-opener as to the game’s build possibilities. Unlike many other Souls/Sekiro-likes, you can respec whenever you want in Nioh 3, and that applies to both stats, which you’ll purchase with Amrita, and skills, which you acquire by finding Samurai and Ninja Locks. Both…
The Bloodedge Demon is the most unique boss in Nioh 3, since this yokai scales based on how many revenants you’ve killed—those red spirits of other players that you can summon for a duel. If you’ve been very liberal with your friendly summons (the blue ones), then you’ve likely had to kill a lot of…
If you’re like me and have never played Nioh before, Nioh 3 is quite the challenge. Combat is so much faster and more aggressive than something like Elden Ring, with so many abilities to juggle and buttons to press. Add to that enemies and bosses that don’t mess around, putting your understanding of these tools…
Compared to every other soulslike I’ve played, Nioh 3 really just throws loot at you, Diablo-style. It’s not so much about finding a rare, one-of-a-kind sword or helmet in a cave, so much as it’s about hunting for ever-bigger stats on generic gear. In this way, you’re encouraged to routinely swap your equipment for something…
The Samurai style in Nioh 3 is much closer to the methodical, more hardy, planted sword master that you’d expect from a soulslike, at least compared to the shadowy ninja. However, Nioh 3’s samurai has one defining factor that makes it hard to get to grips with for newcomers: Ki Pulse. Ki is effectively your…
Working out how to beat Yamagata Masakage in Nioh 3 isn’t as challenging as many of the other bosses you’ll encounter when you enter the open-world Warring States map, but it is still somewhat of a trial by fire in terms of learning the game’s central combat mechanics. In particular, Burst Break is of huge…
Jakotsu-baba is the first major boss in Nioh 3, not including the prologue’s Yamagata Masakage. As is typical for the first real boss in any soulslike, Jakotsu-baba is no walk in the park, as I’m sure you’ve figured out by now. Not only is Jakotsu-baba a real pain by himself, but he’s also inside the…