
Overall, a decent game but the difficulty spike will probably keep it from being a fully enjoyable experience for many new and old players.I'm on Windows 10 also. No bugs, frame rate drops, or crashes have been encountered thus far. Technically, it is a well made and polished game. Only a couple new weapon types but they add some new flare to the game. The new systems, such as the yokai shiftling forms are a great addition to the formula but felt like they could have taken them a little further.

The story isn't great but it isn't terrible either, though the voice acting choices for some characters are a bit distracting. Customization is fairly in depth and the soundtrack is pleasant to listen to.

Apart from the imbalance, combat/controls are fast and responsive. Every encounter with yokai becomes a battle of attrition and drags each mission into excessive lengths of time for how small the maps actually are. You can block basically everything without consequences except for grapples which takes away from the combat but its required since enemy tracking is often excessive which makes dashing/dodging a game of rng at best. Finding actual players to summon becomes difficult in later levels as it seems not many people have been able to make progress to those levels. For any of the more dangerous enemies, its over quickly. They only serve to be a enemy distraction for a short period of time or to help clear out some of the weaker enemies while you endlessly grind in hopes of finding something that will actually make a difference. The NPC summons are more often than not useless as well unfortunately. The suggested level for missions is pointless as even if you are more than double the level, you will still get destroyed by damage sponge enemies that deal ridiculous damage to your over-leveled and over-armored character. Weapons feel underwhelming, skills are still mostly useless. I enjoy a good challenge but the game is poorly balanced. Nioh 1 had its challenges as well but it felt like you could actually progress and become powerful. Nioh 1 had its challenges as well but it felt like you could actually progress and become It's difficult for the sake of being difficult.

It's difficult for the sake of being difficult.
