
The green bar (in the middle) at the upper left of your screen is your Ki gauge, which we’ll refer to interchangeably as your stamina gauge because that’s exactly what it is. Ki is Nioh 2’s most important mechanic, period. With patience, you’ll clear entire areas without ever getting ganged up on.

Your goal is to separate your victims from their friends, and dispatch them one by one. Think of yourself as the boogeyman from a movie. We’ll talk more about this below, but it’s worth mentioning here. Use the environment (above) and items like stones (potbellied Gaki drop them all the time) or arrows (more on this below) to make sure you only draw the attention of one enemy at a time. Fighting even as few as two enemies at once is a bad idea. The other edge you can give yourself is making sure that you control who you fight and where. If you’re having trouble getting past an enemy or just need to find an advantage, look around and see if you can use the level’s layout to your advantage. Other alternatives let you completely skip fights, too.

Many of them will bring you to a fight from a completely different direction, which radically changes how you approach it - sometimes even in your favor. But they serve a more important function as well: Shortcuts and secret alleys let you avoid some of those tough enemies we mentioned above. Mostly, you should explore them all to find useful items.
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The levels of Nioh 2 are full of looping paths, alleys, and shortcuts. There are plenty of other bad guys to kill. Put differently, it’s a really bad idea to fight strong enemies when you’re weak. You can always come back - and you should, when you’re more powerful and the odds are better. This is as true and applicable in hour 10 or 20 as it is in hour one.

There’s no shame in acknowledging that a 25-foot-tall horse demon who can kill you in two hits is a battle designed for a more experienced player and a higher level character. Some enemies aren’t worth fighting when you first encounter them, and you can learn this lesson very early (seriously: within the first few minutes). Your journey won’t be easy, but here in our Nioh 2 beginner’s guide, written after several dozen combined hours with the game, we’ll give you some tips to make it less confusing and frustrating. Your first few day’s with Nioh 2 will be tough, confusing and fair, which is pretty much what we expected from a game designed to make you die a lot.
