Description
0:00 - Dungeon
43:54 - Yui Shosetsu
The final dungeon of the Hell Rising DLC. It's a wind focused dungeon on a mountain that has you spiral upwards.
The boss is Yui Shosetsu who...the game really just had not done anything with up to this point. He's been mentioned, but that's it, no scenes with him at all. Just suddenly here as a sword and shield wielding boss. Which is weird for a very samurai-y character to be using, but, whatever.
Rodrigo appeared after the fight with Jubei, but I totally forgot he was there because he didn't do anything else up until here, where he randomly joins at the end. Jubei was like "hm, dunno if we can trust him" as soon as he showed up, and hey, guess who betrays us! Like, they think that's foreshadowing by having Jubei say that early on but it's so damn obvious when he shows up here like this.
And then we have Maria, who all we have seen prior to this is her smirking at us and then running away. There was a dead body that said she didn't want children or women to be turned to yokai, and here she talks about "seeing the light" at the end or whatever, just suddenly giving her a heel turn for redemption when she was just straight up a villain in the previous games. It's entirely unwarranted and would have been more interesting if she actually remained the consistent villain instead of this Rodrigo guy who just showed up out of nowhere.
This whole game's story is just a mess, it doesn't treat it as if your character is going through any of this, it treats it as if YOU, the player, is, and have all the knowledge of the previous Nioh games so you can go "Oh, it's the character from the previous game!" and just nostalgia-gasm over it.
I was definitely ready for this to be done by the end of it, but I'll still play the other two DLCs when they come out.