Can You Beat Nioh 2 with Only Ninjutsu? 

Nioh2 is real life feudal Japanese history mixed with yokai and they kinda assume that you know famous historical events and people from the time period. The plot also jumps through historical events quite often and doesn't really explain who is who. Some say this was because the game was originally planned for domestic audiences and planned only to be released in Japan. Anyway, this mixed with names being foreign to most westerners makes following the plot quite difficult, but you did a very good job following with the plot and what's happening. Not to mention your challenge run was awesome as always.

The nioh 1 ninjutsu only was legendary but this wasn’t bad either. Made me chuckle here and there. The talk about moving on regardless of how long it takes really hit home. Healing can take a year and even more but you need to stay alive to do that and the world really does deserve the best version of yourself.

I just really love your challenge videos. You have a real talent for commentating. I was invested the entire time. Appreciate the dedication to the run, as well as the unexpected, but welcome, message of kindness halfway through. One of those painful mobile game ads started playing immediately after, which I would normally skip, but it ended up being a few minutes of well timed white noise while I sat there and processed your words. Sincere, kind words from a stranger over the internet can sometimes resonate in ways that the same words from someone you know simply cannot. Thanks for including that bit in the video, and I look forward to whatever you put out next.

I absolutely love Nioh 2 so I was really excited to see this video and it didn’t disappoint. I’ve seen a lot of ninjitsu only runs but this was my favorite due to your narration and humor throughout. I personally really like the story of Nioh 2 and was able to follow it pretty well, which ironically I struggled with in Nioh 1 as neither William nor Kelley *snort* were able to get me invested in the game. Can’t wait to see if you do more Nioh 2 videos!

i wasnt expecting the 18:55 part, but i absolutely needed to hear it today. Thank you.

I think the story based yokai stuff should get a pass, anyone whos played the game would know that at that point a yokai only run would only be the true viable run.

After playing Nioh 1, Nioh 2, the entire Souls series, and Bloodborne, I still hold to this date that Nioh 2 is the best game in this "souls like" genre. A lot of people who haven't played Nioh 2 just have no idea how in depth and fun it is or even understand how it brings an astronomical amount of technicality to the souls like combat in comparison to its contemporaries.

Just want to say: "thank you". Thank you for small reminder about selfcare. This really helped me broke loop sad and hopeless thoughts about myself and my situation. I think that reminder was thing i was needed, just short warm words in bad time from another non-known human in the internet. Now i feel a little bit better. Funny to know, how a few words can change future of human... In that moment when you said this words i played dlc nioh 1. When i heard these words, i feeled calm and beated boss with first try. So thank you for peace in my heart in that moment. I really enjoy yours videos about challenge runs, they funny and interesting and have a unique warm atmosphere. So please, keep going in that direction, you doing well, and keep that little reminders and lyric notes because they can help someone, and do great atmosphere in videos. Sorry if my english is bad, i did my best. Have a nice day!

Yay, a new Spuddy video! It's always an excellent day whenever you upload. You made me tear with your words of support today. I'm very thankful that you include those in your videos :'D Anyway, great video as always, man. I do like seeing how many attempts it takes you to defeat a boss! It does tend to put things more into perspective but it's up to you if you want to continue doing it

Yatsu-No-Kami was the brick wall that stopped my first attempt at Nioh. I'm really bad but I love this game.

nioh 2''s story is explained well through flow charts and by reading everything (if you go to the HUT you can read about npc's u meet and stuff) and the story sorts itself out by doing all the sub missions and you build better connections and have access to more varied area's by doing them. Oh and you get unique items that are unobtainable without them.

I was searching up this stuff and couldn’t find it nowhere and then you posted it Ty I am subscribing

Wonderful run. Glad that you didn't use the cheese with the feathers to steam roll through the game. Having you not use elixir to heal felt like an odd choice given that you can't block as well. Might decrease the frustration for future runs if you allowed the use. Also thanks for calling out how good the levels are designed. Wo long absolutely face planted in front of nioh 2 in terms of visuals.

Love the inclusion of a death meter, it’s cool to compare experiences to other people when it comes to bosses cause it’s always different

When Spuddy cube uploads a Nioh 2 video: *Happiness noises* Also, the mission with Magoichi Saika and Gyuki was the most frustrating thing i've ever experienced in a video game, and it was also the first thing that ever made me rage so hard i ended up breaking my headphones. I was even more annoyed when i got Gyuki to 1hp and died before i could finish him off because of his stupid water spit attack that seemed to one-shot me if i was anywhere under 100% health

Ohhh yeah it’s always a good day when you post a new video!

Ah, excellent. I have been looking forward to this upload. To give some brief historical context to the game, you play as one half of an obviously fictionalized two-person version of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the second of the three great unifiers of Japan. The first being Oda Nobunaga and the third being Tokugawa Ieyasu. The game jumps time a lot between major events during the Sengoku period, and even skips other major events entirely (as far as I know), like Hideyoshi's invasion of Korea. In reality, he died before the game's ending from an illness. William is featured, and he didn't make it to Japan until 1600. Hideyoshi died in 1598, which is why he never appears in the first game, but the second takes place before and after it with all the time jumps. They just keep resurrecting the non-player half of Hideyoshi for the character's personal story with the Sengoku period going on in the background, because if he died when he was supposed to in-game, we would've never seen William and it wouldn't have made for a bossfight... unless you fought the illness killing him or the bed he died on transformed into a yokai. Just like the first one, it is a fantasy version of a very real and important part in Japan's history, but it's still confusing to keep up with if you don't know about all the events going on. Oh, and I realize the character models look similar, but you work for Tokugawa Ieyasu in the first game, not Hideyoshi. And now with my historical fact dump done as I did with the first game, I await the magic challenge run for whenever you get around to doing that.

Yesssss I had notifications turned on waiting for this❤❤❤❤

Ahhh hell yeah a dream come true! Great vid as usual

was not expecting the therapy session mid video. but it was a nice addition and helped make my day. thank you

just want to say thank you for being a awsome dude and for being my hero

So, the woman who kills herself is Oichi, Nobunaga's sister, she loses both of her husbands to you in Nagamasa and Katsuie along with her brother, so by that point she's given up. Plus, ritual suicide was a whole thing in feudal Japan. Not condoning it, but explaining it at least. Appreciate the heck out of the speech you gave after that moment though

What are the chances I just watched the other nioh challenges this morning and then this drops. An absolute godsend 💯

Took me a week to catch up and watch all your content, you’re amazing man this video was fun! Also hope ya do the rest of the Batman games with gadgets :)

I wish you knew just how accurate you commentary mid video was to me for personal circumstances, thank you so much for the small reminder brother, I wish you the best

Watching a challenge video of nioh 2 of a very funny youtuber, yet i didnt think i would be crying. Thank you

I loved this game, though I definitely thought 1s ninjuitsu was better. Great vid, as usual.

Dude your quips and funny humor freaking hilarious

Great video !

Love the nioh content. Would love to see other “soulsbornekiro likes” in the future.

Dang, really caught me off guard around the 19 min mark. Thank you

I lost my sister, and the speech you gave really hit me. I love your vids

Now this right here, this is beautiful

Solid effort dude

hope you see this because fun fact you CAN damage the big tentacles in lady osakabe's fight. They just cant be locked onto, but they take 100% damage and can be headshot, meaning u can kill them with projectiles.

great video, great run, cant wait for the onmyo run as ive always liked eastern magic also did that seriously say switchglaive, who made this and whats their relation to monster hunter

I have to say that the story of Nioh 2 was a lot more memorable imo than the story in Nioh; The entire story feels like a culmination of failures and setbacks. Sure, there are battles won, but they're battles that came at cost to both sides. One thing the Japanese audio really emphasized for me was how hurt Tokochiro was when you abandon him at mount Tenno. It may have been two people, one name, but at that point, he had already chosen Amrita as his path to victory, and while this isn't an excuse for the tens of thousands of Yokai and people slain, unfortunately for many, their amrita being taken from them just to become the strength to destroy the evil which corrupts them is often the best their souls could hope for in that regard.

I doubt too many people care since the story is so hard to follow anyway, but some lore context, back in the day some clans in Japan had a inherited sort of name, whoever was the head of the clan just had that name, even if it wasn't their birth name. I don't recall if it was ever outright stated but characters like Hanzo and Saika Magoichi are not the same characters that are interacting with William, but are actually those characters fathers. Hanzo is really interesting because at some point he turns into a giant toad, the one William fought, and I thought it was neat that they made him use a spear in Nioh 2. Honda Tadakatsu however is the same guy through both games

18:15 That run is straight up Tigrex

You are the man!

about elemental ninjutsu my favourite thing to do was to choose 1 element and max out it dmg by doing this you could get around +70% of your chosen element and another +50% form confusion debuff if your weapon had purify element on it... also from my testing your weapon lvl influence your ninjutsu/omnyo dmg a bit

Im glad you also suffered with yatsu no kami (the snake boss) as i did too

Nioh 2's ninjutsu aping Ninja Gaiden stuff was wild. Made it feel more like a spellcaster build than Omnyo late game lol

IIRC your character takes a 20ish years long powernap. Long enough for William to arrive, beat Kelly, settle down, marry and have a 5-7 year old kid.

I truly appreciate your “take care of yourself” message. ❤

everyone gets lost in that house, no one wants to admit it

another banger of a video.

I love both the games. Ninjutsu was broken in the first game but in second I definitely took advantage of the fists mixed with Scrampuss and Spirit

Ohhh boy here we go~

Very enjoyable first 9 minutes but I haven't played Nioh 2 or the first yet so I don't want to see too much of it, Thanks for making this video though

okasabe was tough, but i would have probably quit there if you were able to fall off the arena. was blob in 1 was bad enough for that, but this things tentacles are really far out so if youre attacking when it pulls back youd be fucked lol. koji was really fun, and that last gasp he gets made me panic hard.

I play nioh 2 everyday but still bad lol ^^ love this game so much ... thank u for playing nioh 2

Nioh 2 story was awesome I believe in one of the DLC actually shows you and involves the undergound area where you fought william and how Shutin Doji was sealed there and another yokai

Ahh, the return of Captain Sharp Things. This was a lot of fun to watch, so I'm rewatching it at work. It's a shame William grew up to be such a cheater though

I caught that asdf movie reference

This is my favourite game

I liked the skill tree of the first game how u could lvl one weapon and use those points on a different weapon

That twist with narrator being attacked reminds me similat situation with Drakengard 3 on PS4. Great game (from creator of NIER Automata), but abysmal performace...

12:32 he's azai nagamasa, and oda lied to you about him Historically he was oda's brother in law and a really good man, after a while he realized oda was gonna betray him and attack him but it was too late and he had lots of people with him betray him and oda was already at his castle The reason he says that he was responsible for this in the cutscene, is basically a white lie to keep oda powerful(by making sure you don't betray him) and thus making sure his wife is safe Also oda burnt his infant child on a stake, fun stuff.

Have yet to do a ninjutsu build in N2 but by N1 build was fantastic. NG++ was a cake walk compared to my original character.

Did you establish a 'no ninja tool replenish' kit? I thought you allowed that in another run? It would have saved you time. Still very entertaining and I liked the boss counter.

OH YEAH TRACKING ATTEMPTS

Elemental jutsu does massive damage if the enemy has no stamina if you didn't know

Surprised to see feathers not useful in this run. Ig it makes sense. Ninjutsu themselves don’t deal massive KI damage, and that’s what you need for them to absolutely obliterate any yokai enemy, but I figured the confusion would be good anyways.

anything that forces you to do something to progress that is against the the run (magic only, ninjutsu only, etc) is never held against the player.

Hay how about an interesting challenge for you. Yokai only, you can only use yokai abilities and yokai shift, consumables are allowed and if you want you can do it in ng+ if you’d like it’s really one of my favorite build types in the game, of course if you wish to make the meta version of that kind of build you’ll have to have all 3 dlcs (because of the ng++ dotD, ng+++dotW, and ng++++dotN are lock behind having the dlcs and have all three of the gives you the true endgame of nioh 2 after beating the game 3 times each with an additional modifier to enemies and changing enemy spawns, like Devil May Cry.)

I love Nioh 2 BUT 7:14 This is like worst story dead. WTF why he sacriface him self that was 0 reason to do that. I was really mad about that.... Still love this game and now i replay the game with tomfa.

very nice video, if possible, could you do one with only yokai shift?

Im surprised you never used the giant iga-style bombs. 4 or 5 of these would easily end bosses in my run

I don't play Souls-genres. But I did play Nioh 1 and 2. I find it a lot more engaging, I even find it higher than Elden Ring in many aspects! To me, the Nioh series is my bread and butter. I don't mind the history as much, I think its just real cool involving yokai. If these two are gems, then Nioh 1 is an emerald while Nioh 2 is a diamond.

Thanks for your videos.. now nioh games became easy now...😁😁😁😁

Now we need an onmyo run

So you did ninja and magic (i think i saw a playthrough like that and i think it was you) but what about heavy armour and some big ass weapon? Like you can go through those games just fine at a distance so i guess close combat could be next and seeing how you use light armour in those runs you should also use heaviest armour you have at the time (I just LOVE heavy armours in games visually. Almost always they have the best drip).

finished the game and currently getting 100% achievements, a yokai only run would be cool to see, also why is your game freezing so often? I never had any kind of framerate/freeze issues

everyone gets lost in that house, no one wants to admit it. Asdfmovie

15:57 - he survives death because of the quick change scroll which you can make yourself in ninjutsu. Fyi for future nioh challenges. Eta. I see you used the scroll later on.

Yes he did it

come on you could have said "culled the castle"

Notifications on point 👍

I don't consider burst counter as breaking the rules its a key part of the game like deflections in sekiro and I also consider forced executions as just in game cutscenes

NOT THE ASDF MOVIE REFERENCE NOT THE ASDF MOVIE REFERENCE NOT THE ASDF MOVIE REFERENCE NOT THE ASDF MOVIE REFERENCE seriously though it's been years among years since I've heard that "snake arms" line used.

Love Nioh 2, Bloodborne will always be my all time favorite

The reason the elemental ninjutsu didn't work too well at times is they normally don't do much damage. They do Ki (stamina) damage. If the enemy is out of Ki, then the Ki damage is converted to health damage. I personally find the water one is ass though since its hard to actually hit.

Nice ❤

I really like this game, much more than the first one. Though when a friend told me I have to get to ng+5 or something to get the « true » experience I said fuck that lol.

How about tryin to beat nioh with a set build like ninja so u use the tools ands skills and 1 ninja weapon like tke sickle chain or with only just one weapon

Nobady likes osakabehime…

28:03 he means Agni and Rudra right? I'm not making things up am I.

7:48 by this time you should've been using the feathers already

Theres 2 types; Dealing damage only through a specific type of damage. The only way you are offensive is though a specific type of playstyle. This is 100% fine but I assumed this video was the later.

Wish u we're allowed to help monkey before he went evil

I NOW DON YOU A SHINOBI SAMURAI

Does this mean a Nioh 2 Magic Only run is in the pipeline too?

I really need to emphasize that using blocking while being stunlocked cancels it out. I assume you were not allowed to block though.

“Maybe it’s be just be cause I’m wearing light armor.” Um damage output from enemies is just fucking stupid at times. Looking at the Kasaru Tengu and Nure-onna specifically.

"a spirit that won't have any bearing on anything that i do" which isn't true because some spirits do buff your ninjutsu, even though he does mention it later

Ah man I'm thinking about buying Nioh 2 and now this guy has to upload a video about it. Guess I'll buy it.

7:20 yeah I hated this part

you didn't even show the giant monkey in the first level that kills me every time and is one of the reasons I quit this game cuz it was too hard for me

you ever thought about doing the surge or lords of the fallen?