

Metal Gear Solid V: The Phantom Pain Review.Cyanide & Happiness – Freakpocalypse Review.Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun – Aiko’s Choice.Its counterpart, the Himorogi Branch, is consumed upon use and preserves your Amrita when leaving a mission. It can be used as many times as you need and will remain in your inventory like a security blanket. It consumes all your Amrita, putting it to waste, but takes you back to the overworld map. If you haven’t spent time examining the uses for all of your consumables, you may have missed the Himorogi Fragment. The ability to leave a mission isn’t obvious initially. Chances are, you’ll land some new loot and learn a few things along the way. They typically use the same map as a main mission you’ve already completed, but change up the environment, enemy placement, and objective. They’re a good way to grind up a few levels without continuing to beat your head against the same problem. If you’ve been killed by the same pair of enemies or same boss enough times that you’re about to cause collateral damage to your system, leave and try a sub mission instead. Dip into a sub mission if you’re having a rough time elsewhere Sub missions aren't always the most interesting levels, but they're hiding some of the best rewards. The convoluted menu system can make it look more complex than it is, but you'll get used to it with enough very stressful practice. Soul Match allows you to infuse a higher level gear into lower level gear, bringing your favs up to speed. Nioh’s inheritance system can get pretty complex and should be left to the most dedicated of min-maxers, but the Soul Match option will keep your friends (axes) around for a long time. But if you can’t let your favorite gear go…

All you have to worry about is making your numbers go up. So sell extra gear or whatever doesn’t interest you without too much worry. Until the endgame (if you even care) collecting gear sets and unique weapons isn’t all that important. You’re going to get a lot of the stuff throughout Nioh, so don’t get too attached to one armor set or item. So before moving into a new area, look around with your bow take out any low level enemies or soften the big ones you’re having trouble with. Some levels and enemy placements are designed to be softened with a quick bow sweep before moving in with the big guns (which aren’t guns but are axes and swords and such). Seriously, you can pull of some sick headshots with these suckers.

Pay attention to the enemy Ki bar as much as its flailing arms.
