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I absolutely love team ninja, but this game could've have had a lot more thought put into it. As a Nioh fan I expected a lot of this game. I bought and played the game in spite of the terrible reviews. I figured that everyone was complaining about the tutorial boss that was pretty challenging, until you figure out standing still and learning the deflect timings gets you the easy win.
After you get past the initial barrier to entry (tutorial boss) you can finally somewhat enjoy the game. Coop becomes unlocked and you can play with a friend. Yay!! There isn't enough of that these days so I was excited. You then start crashing and having de-sync issues when playing coop. That is when the rose colored glasses I was viewing the game through started coming off. I ignored these things at first naturally.
After beating a few missions you start thinking wow this game is kind of easy. Once you understand the combat system things seem to be a lot less challenging. You have your spirit gauge (Posture bar) and the morale system. Spirit gauge was cool at first until you realize that everything you do negatively effects it. Strong attacks, parrying/deflecting(however you refer to it), Martial arts (weapon arts/skills), wizardry, and blocking negatively effect the spirit(posture) gauge. Also the dodge input is the same key as the deflect input which i think was a terrible idea.
The morale system i think is what mostly ruins the game. At first I found it enjoyable; but the further I made it in the game, I realized it was a good idea but a terrible implementation. Not sure if it was just balanced incorrectly or just a bad addition all around. When you get to the Zhang Rang boss fight all you are thinking is, Why did the boss become unfairly hard? Dude literally spawns in about 12-15 versions of himself that all attack at the same time with melee attacks and ranged spells. Too many to deflect in fact. It becomes a game of chance and RNG to win. Me and my buddy struggled through that fight to then go to the following mission where you fight Lu Bu.
This is where the morale system really punches you in the face and team ninja says thank you for supporting us and playing our game sucka! At the start of the boss fight(if you manage to get there with 20 morale) you are significantly weaker than the boss. You can deflect his perilous attacks and do a decent amount of damage to his spirit(posture) but he does WAY more damage to your health and posture. This is supposed to be even: mind you, seeing as how you start with 20 morale and so does the boss. You can deflect 100 hundred attacks as well as land 100 then finally break his posture to get a finishing blow. Did I mention this glorious finishing blow does about 1.8% of the bosses health in damage? I forgot to mention the fact that you have to break his posture once to get him off of his horse then the boss fight can begin. If you do not manage to pull of all 100 deflects and attacks in time he just hops back on his horse so that you have to repeat the process all over again. Every once in a while you manage to break his posture twice and enjoy the benefits of your juicy MASSIVE 1.8% damage before you can go back to dying. At this point you have probably already used all of your heals and have effectively taken 35% of the bosses health.
You then say to yourself, ;Nay I can do this it just comes down to patience.: You and your buddy struggle and struggle for an hour to beat him until you get him to 20% health. With a renewed sense of confidence you decide this is actually doable. Then right as you are about to beat the boss someones game crashes. Oh yeah, when that happens the entire progress of the lobby is over and you have to repeat it all over again.
I figured at first it was just people complaining about the first boss. Come to find out that the game is terribly unbalanced, the morale system was a stupid idea, de-sync and disconnect issues cause you to repeat entire missions, and team ninja stole my money.
I have loved every game team ninja released but it seems they have reached the pinnacle like blizzard and cdprojekt red. They figured screw it, these idiots will buy it and sadly they were right. Only question is will you make the same mistake twice? This experience makes me deeply question whether or not I would buy Nioh 3 if it were to be made. Screw this game in it's current unplayable/unbalanced state. Don't waste your money like I did.

I was really excited to play this game even though i was pretty sure it was feminist propaganda. I figured it would still be good because it was a wolfenstein game and boy was i wrong. Why make such a terrible progression system? Enemies are better at eating your bullets than enemies from the division. Well it looks like this franchise is ruined. RIP Wolfenstein......

RNG is so bad that it is almost impossible to play. I can't recommend this game. I'm not a fan of dying every 5 minutes to either a trap or getting one shot by an enemy after RNG determines that you miss them 20 times in a row. It would be a lot better if you didn't lose XP for dying. If you die every 5 minutes like me then you'll lose XP more than you gain. Overall I feel this game is absolute garbage.

War or Rights is an absolutely amazing game. Gameplay is great and very responsive (except for when you accidentally bump the B key while trying to ready for a charge by pressing V. This will get you stuck in a 5 second or longer animation that removes your bayonet which i can not interrupt. Need to remap the keybinding and you should be good.) Graphics are simply breathtaking if your PC can handle it. With all of that said, it pains me to say that I do not recommend buying this game in it's curent state. Nothing is really wrong with the game itself but the servers are garbage. First 2 days I had the game i did not really have much trouble connecting to the servers and i got into 90% of the matches i tried to join. Unfortunately the last 2 days of me trying to join servers have not been successful at all. Until they fix server issues it's really a waste of money. I genuinely hope that this is resolved soon since I absolutely love this game.