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0:00 - Dungeon
28:46 - Shinsaku Takasugi
Now we're in our final open world section, the capital, Kyoto, during the same era Rise of the Ronin takes place. I honestly only remember Ryoma from that game, and he's only mentioned by name here. We get Shinsaku as a boss and ally later, but that's about it.
I'm pretty disappointed with the eras we time travelled to in this game. We have early Tokugawa, which is fine as a starter and would be great if we stayed there and grew to know them more. But instead we get the Genji era, which we already went to in Nioh 2's DLC, and now the...I don't even know what you call this era, but we've already had it done in Rise of the Ronin.
Basically, they didn't try anything NEW for this game. We could have done something wild like gone to modern times, even meet the actual Ryu Hayabusa this time or something. But nah, just retreading ground the devs have already done. Just a lot of missed opportunities here.
Shinsaku as a boss is on the difficult side, I think, he can be pretty aggressive and attack in tandem with his Guardian Spirit so the pressure is just always on, especially later in the fight. I didn't lose to him ,but it didn't feel easy lol.