"We've never considered adding difficulty settings to Nioh" Team Ninja game director weighs in on difficulty options ahead of Nioh 3's launch

Have you heard the connection 'masocore' before? It's a portmanteau of 'masochist' and 'hardcore', and it's what Team Ninja utilized to picture the archetypal fewer games successful the Nioh franchise. In an interrogation a agelong clip ago, Yosuke Hayashi (general shaper astatine Team Ninja) told maine that the squad moving connected the Nioh games ne'er truly wanted to marque them 'Soulslikes', and thought that 'masocore' suited the developer's imaginativeness somewhat better.

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