Nioh 2 needed a named protagonist, not a character generator

Opinion by Matt S.

Now that the review embargo over Nioh 2 now lifted, I can talk about the game freely. I've already broached this topic briefly in my review, but I wanted to elaborate a little further here. In an otherwise magnificent game, Nioh 2 has one critical issue that means that it doesn't quite hit the heights of the original: in Nioh, you played as William Adams, a named protagonist with personality, characterisation, and a basis in the history that Nioh depicts. With Nioh 2, you create an avatar, which bumbles through the game, listening in to the conversation, but never participating. It is a vastly inferior approach.

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