>>713356159
As someone that liked Nioh 2 a lot, I'd say it's a downgrade but still alright.
The combat gameplay felt dumbed-down and overly parry-focused, but there are people who can make it work better from what I've seen. I feel like the focus on the parry took away a lot of positioning and attack timing aspects you could have done in Nioh.
The open world feels pretty empty at times, but some locations are nice. The collectibles feel a bit too forced. It doesn't have the aesthetic factor that Ghost of Tsushima had, but I like some locations, especially in Kyoto.
With the way I play open-world games, I also ended up overleveling pretty hard and the game felt pretty easy due to that. The only parts that felt challenging were on NG+ and trying to get good scores on some Dojo challenges. I'm not a particularly skilled gamer, and the only thing I failed to do was Eternal Night.
The story sucks. It pretends to give you choice, but then bluntly forces you into pseudo-neutrality that doesn't make sense.