Is Nioh 3 Worth $70? - Gamescast Plays

Summary

Kinda Funny Gamescast: “Is Nioh 3 Worth $70?” — Gamescast Plays

Date: February 5, 2026
Hosts: Tim Gettys, Greg “GameOverGreggy” Miller, Blessing Adeoye, Andy Cortez
Main Theme:
The crew plays and discusses Nioh 3, Team Ninja’s latest action RPG, tackling its gameplay mechanics, difficulty, value, and the evolution of the franchise. Is it worth the $70 price tag? Blessing plays live while Andy, Greg, and chat provide advice, running commentary, and reflections on the genre.

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Episode Overview

• Purpose: A hands-on stream/play session and review of Nioh 3 with live commentary, offering insights for those considering the game, especially its $70 price compared to previous entries and other contemporaries.
• Main Question: Does Nioh 3 deliver enough, in terms of value and experience, to justify its premium price?

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Team Ninja’s Output and Identity

• Team Ninja has been prolific, producing several action titles: Nioh 1 & 2, Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, Rise of the Ronin, and this year’s Ninja Gaiden 4.
• Blessing:

  "They are workhorses. They will get a video game out, and that's more than we can say for a lot of other studios... [but] whether or not that thing out the door will resonate with you in a bigger way—you know, I do think no matter what, they have a solid fan base." (03:36)

• Andy:

  "This is probably my favorite one of all of them so far. Fun combat, great freedom of expression with the way the combat works. Very, very deep with how the mechanics go." (04:14)

2. First Impressions: Early Game & Open World Design

• Blessing has played just the first hour; Andy has 42+ hours in and considers the game “video game junk food”—in a positive sense for completionists.

• The open-world structure offers plenty of content (side activities, Crucibles, enemy camps), reminiscent of Ghost of Tsushima’s map clearing.

• Andy:

  "...I think it's good junk food. It lets me see a map and it makes me want to clear out all of those things because the combat and the gameplay is very good." (06:32)

• Crucibles and similar repetitive content aren’t a negative for Andy, who finds them satisfying for XP and loot, though they may be repetitive for some.

3. Combat Depth, Customization, and Game Feel

• Nioh 3’s combat praised for depth: different weapons, stances (high, mid, low), and “freedom of expression”.
• Detailed RPG systems: leveling stats (Constitution = health, Heart = stamina), gear rarity/color coding, loot management, and transmog features for style.
• Andy:

  “Unlocking high stance, mid stance and low stance on the heavy weapons was cool. Crazy to me. I like that. It just added so much more and I was kind of annoyed by it at first. But it’s actually pretty neat the way it operates.” (22:42)

• Custom builds allow players to experiment and optimize.

4. Difficulty and Learning Curve: Boss Fights

• The stream revolves around Blessing taking on the game’s first boss, repeatedly attempting and discussing his struggles and adapting strategies, highlighting:

  • Stamina (“key”) management and regeneration (“key pulse”)
  • The difference between ninja and samurai stances/loadouts
  • The necessity of learning bosses’ attack patterns and not being greedy
  • Chat’s encouragement and friendly ribbing throughout (“Patient Pete” fights; don’t expect to win in four hits)

• Comparison to Souls titles, Sekiro, and Lies of P. Parry mechanics are unlocked, not baseline, and not as central as other games.

• Andy:

  “This is one of those definitely Patient Pete fights, chat, where you’re not gonna kill him in four hits. You're gonna want to poke here and there, bounce out, poke here and there, bounce out.” (38:35)

• Both Blessing and Andy occasionally struggle with switching control schemes and muscle memory between similar games.

5. Quality of Life Improvements

• Multiple times, Andy and Blessing highlight system streamlining versus previous games—inventory sorting, easy loot selling, perks for completionists.
• Andy:

  "The amount of quality-of-life stuff in this game that just aims to make things a little bit less annoying is awesome. And I really, really love that." (18:04)

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Memorable Moments & Notable Quotes

• On Team Ninja’s Consistency:

  “They are workhorses. They will get a video game out...” – Blessing (03:36)

• On Combat Style:

  “They cannot miss with the combat.” – Andy (04:14)

• On Game Feel and Junk Food Analogy:

  “I think it’s video game junk food so far. It's doing the open world stuff...completing all these missions because it makes me feel good and I see it cleared off the map and I get all the loot for it.” – Andy (02:01)

• On Boss Practices:

  “This is one of those definitely Patient Pete fights, chat, where you’re not gonna kill him in four hits.” – Andy (38:35)

• On Learning Curve:

  “What I need to do is honestly just...I need to learn the language of the game. It's about internalizing the language...hitting that R1 button to get that key pulse going, being used to having the two different fighting styles between the ninja and samurai. Not caring, that being the big one. I'm so used to parries now.” – Blessing (27:09)

• On Customization:

  “You unlock transmog pretty early on and you're able to just make whatever armor you want to look like...” – Andy (13:50)

• On Souls Game Comparison / Difficulty:

  “If you're downloading the demo for Neo 3, there's no chance you aren't into souls games. You're not just happening upon it. You've definitely been through the Lies of Ps and Neo2s. And Wo Long.” – Andy (39:08) “I would say Wo Long Fallen Dynasty...I was spending several hours on bosses in that game and this one...the max I've taken on a boss is about...an hour.” – Andy (41:15)

• On Boss Victory and Salt:

  “Let's fucking go. Come on, come on, come on. That's what's up. I needed that. I needed that. I was about to be so salty. I don't know if you understand. That's a rude day. I was fucking getting—ready to show up to KG tomorrow and being like, yo, fuck this game. Yo, fuck Nioh. And he gave it a seven. It should have been a four. It should have been a three and a half. Like, we're not going low enough on the review scale anymore. God damn.” – Blessing (77:18)

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Important Timestamps

• 01:18 – Stream start, Blessing shares first impressions.
• 02:01 – Andy describes the “junk food” appeal of Nioh 3.
• 03:36 – Discussion on Team Ninja’s strengths and work ethic.
• 04:53 – Andy shares tips for early game, including Crucibles and looting.
• 13:50 – Details on transmog and dual loadouts.
• 18:04 – Praising quality-of-life improvements.
• 22:42 – Andy discusses weapon stance depth.
• 38:35 – On boss fight patience and strategy.
• 43:14 – Andy on boss difficulty versus previous entries.
• 65:49 – Blessing and Andy discuss the struggle of adapting to the control scheme and genre muscle memory.
• 77:18 – Blessing achieves a hard-fought victory over the first boss, raw celebration and relief.
• 77:53 – Wrap-up: The demo is meaty (“15 hours”), and release is imminent.

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Overall Take & Conclusion

• Gameplay: Deep, rewarding, and familiar to soulslike/action RPG fans, Nioh 3 offers a blend of structure and flexibility. The open world and side content add to the “video game junk food” appeal, catering both casual explorers and completionists.
• Difficulty: Challenging but more approachable than Nioh 2 or Wo Long, with flexible systems enabling progression. Early boss fights are tough but fair.
• Value: For action RPG fans or completionists, the $70 price is justified given content and polish, especially with the lengthy (15+ hour) demo.
• Recommended For: Players who love deep action combat, loot, optimization, and a degree of genre challenge; best appreciated by those with patience for learning systems.

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TL;DR / Summary Table

| Topic | Summary | Timestamp | |---------------------------|------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|------------------| | Team Ninja’s Output | Consistent, prolific, solid action fanbase | 03:36 | | Gameplay Structure | “Junk food” open world, satisfying combat, lots to do | 02:01 - 06:32 | | Combat/Systems | Deep, stances, loot, transmog, parry (unlockable), dual loadouts | 13:50 - 22:42 | | Difficulty/Bosses | Challenging but less punishing; patience and learning required | 38:35, 41:15 | | Quality of Life | Notable improvements and friendly to players | 18:04 | | Value/Price | Meaty, content-rich, premium but justified for fans | 77:53 | | Final Thoughts | “Is it worth $70?” — For the target audience, yes. Demo is generous. | 77:53-78:13 | | Memorable Moment | Blessing’s boss victory and salt rant | 77:18 |

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For Listeners/Readers

This episode provides a thorough, candid, and entertaining look at Nioh 3—from hands-on gameplay tips to franchise reflection and genre comparison. The hosts’ personality and chat’s live input add humor and relatability, making it perfect for both committed fans and curious newcomers considering a $70 purchase.

Transcript

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[Blessing]

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[Andy]

Hello everybody. Welcome to gamescast Plays the stream where we get together and play a new video game for you all. We're going to really get to see Bless in the open battlefield for Nioh3. Blessing, how much Nioh3 have you played?

[Blessing]

Only about an hour. We got the code in and this was one where of course many games coming out in February, so I kind of had to pick and choose. Sadly. I wish I could play all of every single game coming out, but I at the very least wanted to hop into Nioh3 just to see what it played like just to see what the vibe was played the first hour. I'm excited to play more, especially because I didn't even get to the open world area. I didn't even get to, you know, fight a bigger boss for my first hour. I'm just solidly in the game now.

[Andy]

You're in that. Yeah, you're in that prologue zone now. I'm stoked to see you get through it. Remember, you can write in with all of your questions, comments and concerns in the chat or YouTube super chat to support the company. Support a small company. Keep the lights and the mics on. I'm excited to see Blessing play this, to see somebody else kind of experienced this because I put in about 42 hours into Neo 3, having a really, really good time with it. I think I'm gonna see it through. I have 10 more hours ish left, I'm assuming. But I want to keep playing this video game because I think. I think it's video game junk food so far. It's doing the open world stuff that I just like kind of completing all these missions because it makes me feel good and I see it cleared off the map and I get all the loot for it. But Nioh 3 is the follow up to Nioh 1 and 2 from Team Ninja, One of many a game they've put out in the last decade or so. They are known for wo long Fallen dynasty from 2023. They also came out with Rise of the Ronin, which was one of those that I thought was gonna be a lot more because I remember it being the PS5 exclusive. Yeah. And it was like, oh, this one's only on the new console. And that I didn't put a whole lot into time. Time into that one kind of fell off it pretty quickly. But they also came out with Ninja Gaiden 4 earlier this year that they worked on with Platinum Games. They've been working. They've been churning out content. Yeah.

[Blessing]

I mean, I think that's one of the things about Team Ninja that I appreciate as a studio, is that they are workhorses. They will get a video game out, and that's more than we can say for a lot of other studios. They'll get something out the door. Now, whether or not that thing out the door will resonate with you in a bigger way. You know, I. I do think no matter what, they have a solid fan base, a core group of action. Action gamers is what I'll call them.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

For the sake of it.

[Andy]

Right.

[Blessing]

That follow them and really, really do dig their games. And I get it because, like, even with Long Fallen Dynasty, which we mentioned on the review of NIOH 3, I think we all kind of gave it that 3 out of 5 area. Right. Maybe 6 or 7 out of 10. Still is a game that I'm glad I played.

[Andy]

Yeah. I mean, I mean, I think all of us kind of have the same feelings where we really dug the combat because they cannot miss with the combat. So there's obviously still a lot there to love. And I think this game, I think aside from Stranger of Paradise, which I also love for the goofy aspects of it, but still having a lot of really fun and engaging combat, I. I think this is probably my favorite one of all of them so far. Yeah. Fun combat, great freedom of expression with the way the combat works. Very, very deep with how the mechanics go.

[Blessing]

Now, do you have any games cast game tips for me at this moment, this point of the game? I'm picking this up for the first time in the net in the last, oh, I want to say three to two to three weeks and so I'm getting my bearings still.

[Andy]

Why are Andy and Bus so far apart? That's a good question. I don't know.

[Blessing]

Yeah, we don't like each other.

[Andy]

Yeah, it's funny, I was gonna.

[Blessing]

I'm digitally like remake.

[Andy]

I can move. I can move closer.

[Blessing]

Yeah, you guys can move closer.

[Andy]

He's playing. I'll move closer. It'll probably look better in the window as well. Oh, yeah, I gotta get Lee Rude from Jesus. How do we look now? A good chat. Andy didn't touch on Crucibles in the review. Do they get repetitive? Yes and no. Crucibles are these open world spots that, like the thing with me, the Crucibles, to me, very similar to attacking enemy encampments in Ghost of Tsushima or doing anything repetitive mechanic in a game where some people can go, ah, it's just the same thing over and over again. But I kind of found fun in the. In the getting into the rhythm of it and getting that xp. So I. I haven't found them repetitive because I. I'm actively kind of seeking them out because I'm like, oh, I want to clear. I missed one. Let me go clear that one out. You know, I mean, I'm enjoying kind of doing the completionist stuff in this video game. It's good junk food. It lets me see a map and it makes me want to clear out all of those things because the combat and the gameplay is very good.

[Blessing]

Now, isn't me or is this screen really dark?

[Andy]

No, I think it's just the lights from the glare.

[Blessing]

Okay. Oh, you know what?

[Andy]

That. That probably is because, like the bright stuff is bright in this game. You know, like I couldn't tell if

[Blessing]

it was the TV settings or like my PS5 settings or something, but yeah, I think it is the TV player.

[Andy]

We're good.

[Blessing]

False alarm.

[Andy]

Yeah. Yeah. There are enemy camps in addition to the Crucibles, which are very similar. Well, I mean, very similar in a way that they're just things I want to clear out in the game.

[Blessing]

Oh, I like that.

[Andy]

I like that.

[Blessing]

Yeah, that's better.

[Andy]

Now one thing you need to do is crouch and take them out from behind because these enemies are dumb as rocks. And they won't hear you if you're seven feet away from them.

[Blessing]

Good call.

[Andy]

Yeah. Like if you take out a dude seven feet away from the other dude, he'll probably notice. But like they. They have about like Snowback Mike's cone of vision around them. Like they don't. They don't see or hear anything. You have to just kind of like be crouching. But this isn't. This isn't like an Assassin's Creed or any sort of even Elden Ring. Will they note. They notice you pretty quickly. This. They're very, very dumb in this game, which is nice because it makes things easier to clear up. No, that's just loot. Yeah, those boxes are just loot. There's all that loot. So the color structure in this game is white is common, gold is uncommon, or the yellow uncommon. Usually gold is a legendary at the very, very top.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Andy]

Gold is the second level here. And I'm assuming all the other Neo games have worked like this. I'm sure Rise of the Ronin and Wolong also work like that. But blue is rare and then purple is kind of your legendary. I also love anytime you come up to one of these wells, you can sometimes that little. You already got it. But the little thing will be sitting, so you can just kind of whack it and it'll usually give you an item. Sometimes an enemy pops out. Me.

[Blessing]

Are those Shokai in the enemy ranks? Chat. Has Neo and Near ever had a crossover? Remember in 2017? I feel like everybody got those games mixed up their titles.

[Andy]

Outer worlds, Outer wild sort of thing.

[Blessing]

Yeah, it's like, oh, you play that new Neo like, you mean Near Gold

[Andy]

not being a high rarity feels illegal. It is kind of odd cuz at first I was like, damn, I already got a legendary drop. And that's not how it works, unfortunately. But don't fret, because you have more loot here than your heart will ever desire. Okay.

[Blessing]

Constitution.

[Andy]

Heart.

[Blessing]

Okay. Heart affects key and key recovery. So that's like stamina. Constitution is health. What was your strategy for leveling up?

[Andy]

So I went for a lot of constitution because a lot of the heavier weapons that I prefer using use constitution. And you'll see where the weapons, how the weapons scale once you open up, like your weapons menu. But I went for I like having a big health bar and I like. I like doing damage. That's normally what I kind of lean towards now. It's weird that what you would think is heart is stamina.

[Blessing]

Yeah. And then they Also have a stamina thing here.

[Andy]

And the stamina icon is an arm, which usually means strength to me. Very confusing. But yeah, they. I basically just looked at what they were improving in the moment.

[Blessing]

So I went for a lot of equipment.

[Andy]

I definitely went for Constitution and went for my number one. Two and three are Constitution one, Stamina two, Heart three. And I basically just looked at the blue numbers and like what numbers are going up that I want to go up.

[Blessing]

I like that.

[Andy]

You know, then you'll also see the affected weapon types down low and what weapons get stronger based on how you're leveling up those items.

[Blessing]

All right, we're going heart.

[Andy]

There you go. More health.

[Blessing]

The Amrita there.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

When you said Amita on the review, immediately I was like. I was like, what is Amrita? Cuz I know that word from Persona. And so it was one of those ones where I was doing Wikipedia and I was like, if Andy asks me what he's saying right now, I'm not going to tell him shit. I was like, I know what's happening. Right? Like this is my possible. Either I don't know if it's undiagnosed ADHD or I just don't pay attention. It could be one or the other. But this is one of those ones where I was very cognizant of it. Of like, if Andy asked me a question right now I'm not going to be able to tell you anything.

[Andy]

I'm looking at Amrita.

[Blessing]

I'm on an Amrita trip right now, big boy.

[Andy]

So the blue things are where you could summon a homie to help you out. Oh, just kind of like a ghost version of themselves.

[Blessing]

Nice.

[Andy]

And then the one really neat thing that I like, these red things around the world are fallen homies. Like fallen other players. You can fight them for loot, get, you know, more EM read or whatever.

[Greg]

Let's go.

[Andy]

I don't know how one to one it is, but I killed a lot of these little red revenants. I just like summoning them and killed them. And then eventually whenever I would kill one, I would see the red things kind of fly up and go somewhere. And a little thing on the top left of the screen would say the revenant. I don't know. Specter. The revenant Captain. I don't know what they called it, but it's being, you know, the red fucking gloop from this enemy is guiding you somewhere. And it guided me towards a very, very strong revenant. And it was like all of the revenants you killed have all combined to make this one dude. Oh, this dude is all of the revenants you've killed combined. And I don't know if it's actually one to one. If it's like if I killed a hundred, does that mean this guy has this much more health now or whatever. But it was really cool and the dude dropped a ton of loot and it was, you know, really fun to sell and get souls for or whatever.

[Blessing]

I just need to know. Vasquez in chat says he's cracked. Listen, you know, I don't know if you just caught what I just did there, but I was locked in.

[Andy]

He was locked in. I was locked in. He was locked in or.

[Blessing]

No, he's saying the Blood Edge Demon is cracked. Never mind.

[Andy]

Oh yeah, Blood Edge Demon. Yeah, yeah.

[Blessing]

I thought you were saying I was cracked.

[Andy]

I got.

[Blessing]

I got a counter off those, you know. Felt pretty good to do. Also, while I'm here, let me check my equipment. I feel like people might see me.

[Andy]

No, no, no, dude. This game does not worry. They could have been 10ft in front of you. They won't notice you. So you're going to look at the reference stats on the bottom, right. You see underneath base attack.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Andy]

Those are the three things that your scales with.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Andy]

So chest is so for me, I was like chest, arm and heart. That's what I just kept on looking at.

[Blessing]

Nice.

[Andy]

Which was constitution, stamina, and then strength. No, I forget. Whatever. Yeah, chest, arm and heart was what I was leveling up the most. And so I wanted weapons that were using chest, arm and heart. And that just so happened to be big axes. But then on the ninja side of things, when you swap to the ninja, if you hit R2, you should switch to your ninjas.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Andy]

Which is a different weapon set, different armor set, different everything. So that's another thing you kind of are going to want to manage because they use different everything. And then it's got a good. You know, just like a lot of teen ninja games have very, very good customization and making your dude look sick as hell. So you unlock transmog pretty early on and you're able to just make whatever armor you want to look like and just want your dude. You just want your dude to look the way he does with the old armors cuz it just looks sicker or whatever. So you can have two separate sets of like Transmog armor. So like whenever I switch to my samurai, I look like this and my ninja guy looks like this and my ninja guy Always had like the. The Naruto, like, headband kind of thing. Yeah. With like my sick ass hair and the little, like, mask around my face that just. I got to pick the arm and make my. My dude look. Sick Games has game tip. Make a. Make an offering. See, you could sell a bunch of. You're not going to use right now.

[Blessing]

So this is what you're talking about during the game.

[Andy]

Make an offering.

[Blessing]

Got the co op right there.

[Andy]

I mean, sell some right now, boot

[Blessing]

up your game, hop in, you know.

[Andy]

Oh, oh, Crossplane. I don't think so. Right?

[Blessing]

Oh, that's a good question.

[Andy]

Probably not.

[Blessing]

Yeah, probably not. See, make an offering.

[Andy]

I thought you were going to be playing on PC anyway. That's why I asked you.

[Blessing]

Oh, I see. No, yeah, I was playing. I started this on PlayStation. I don't know why I still haven't. I'm still in the weird place of.

[Andy]

Oh, I'm surprised by that.

[Blessing]

My transition into a PC gamer and I don't know, like, the part of me is still connected to my PlayStation.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Whenever I get the. If Greg is like, oh, we got a code coming in for a AAA game, I think that's where I start to stumble, where I'm like, let me stick on PS5, because I know it's gonna work.

[Andy]

Comfortable.

[Blessing]

Yeah, I'm comfortable with it. But if it's an indie game, I'm

[Andy]

like, oh, yeah, that'll work. My Steam deck.

[Blessing]

Give me that for Steam.

[Andy]

All right.

[Blessing]

Is there a way to organize? Yes, there is a way to sort.

[Andy]

Yeah. There's a lot. Like, good sorting served by rarity, sort by type rarity. So blue is your rarest. So you could sell a bunch of these items at the bottom that you're not going to use. Yeah. So what you could do is hold the Y button down or the triangle and then just hit the. Up. Up in the D pad. Hold up on the D pad.

[Blessing]

Wait, what? I don't think it's my triangle.

[Andy]

Oh, is it my. It might be R2. It's swapped for me.

[Blessing]

No, because that's. Wait, R2 is select.

[Andy]

All right. There's one that. Just let me select one.

[Blessing]

Is it this thing? This thing is popping up.

[Andy]

Kevin just hurt himself. Yes. Triangle. So it is triangle. Yeah. No, wait. Yeah, because square is locked, so.

[Blessing]

Oh, you know what?

[Andy]

If you're. If you're hovered over something, you're not equipped, you could just hold the Y button.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Andy]

And just hold up on the D pad. If you just hold up on the D pad, it'll go and just select everything.

[Blessing]

I don't know what it was. Is that like, this is maybe starter armor, so I couldn't sell it.

[Andy]

No, it's what you have equipped right now.

[Blessing]

Oh. Oh, gotcha.

[Andy]

So you could kind of like. So by the end of it, I was like, all right, here's all the. I'm using. Yeah, I'm going to hold the Y button and just hold down on the D pad. And I just went and I just scrolled for what felt like seven minutes. Got to the end of it all. Sold all of it. Got a shitload of souls or Amrit or whatever. Gotcha. And you're going to want to hit yes there, cuz you're. That's just saying.

[Blessing]

Well, I want to make sure. Cuz I don't. Oh, I guess. Okay. I thought I selected something that was powerful. Equipment of common or greater rarity is selected.

[Andy]

So it says that whenever you have something even yellow selected. So it's like, who gives a. You're not going to use that right now. You're gonna get a million more things in the next 10 minutes anyway.

[Blessing]

Yeah. All right.

[Andy]

So they got you a G, I think, or There we go.

[Blessing]

Yeah, you gotta.

[Andy]

You gotta level it. And then right here you can hit R3, use Spirit Stone. And then you could pop those puzzles. Oh, and use them here. Yeah.

[Blessing]

And then.

[Andy]

Okay.

[Blessing]

I mean, let's keep going.

[Andy]

So again, a lot of quality of life stuff. That's one thing I love is that I think they're very aware in the way that I've talked about how the developer from Phantom, the lead on Phantom Blade zero, was telling me, when you're not Miyazaki and Fromsoft, you have less of a leash to do stuff.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Andy]

You have less room to frustrate people because it'll go, well, you're not me as I can. Fuck you. I don't want to play your game anymore. Yeah. And the amount of quality of quality of life stuff in this game that just aims to make things a little bit less annoying is awesome. And I really, really love that. Oh, yeah.

[Blessing]

All right, let's roll.

[Andy]

Yeah. They realize how overwhelming everything is, so they streamline so much. Yes. It's insanely overwhelming. There's a lot of different. A lot of different systems. And this is what I'm talking about where it's like, cutscenes look amazing.

[Blessing]

Oh yeah.

[Andy]

Their cutscenes have always looked great. Very well like choreographed and visualed. And they know how to put light sources to make look awesome. It's Just when you get back into the game that I don't always love,

[Blessing]

I will say I. I do like the. The yokai design. Like there's something too.

[Andy]

There's some really cool in this game.

[Blessing]

The art direction of the enemies. I think it looks really cool.

[Andy]

How many hours in is this bus is like an hour and a half in? Yeah, something like that.

[Blessing]

That's cool that there's kind of like a narrative thing to why people just switch between ninja and samurai.

[Andy]

Did you equip a weapon for your ninja as well?

[Blessing]

Yes.

[Andy]

Okay.

[Blessing]

Yeah, the ninja one is the one I. I think currently my most powerful weapon. Also, I'm a big fan of a kusarigama.

[Andy]

I love a Kusari Gamma Crimson army.

[Blessing]

I feel like we should bring those back just in like contemporary weapons like ban guns.

[Andy]

Yeah. Everybody has a good time.

[Blessing]

Let's legalize Kusari Gala. Like, you know, make it normalize. Having that just in your home.

[Andy]

I've been rocking with the wolverine claws. I really enjoy them. The move set on them is awesome. I guess this is the first boss that Mike said. I thought this guy got frustrated and I quit. I got him tied. Oh, Also one thing you can do when you're a ninja form, I think if you hold down R2 for the switch. Oh no. That's your switch. Huh. Old square, maybe. Are you in. Are you in souls?

[Blessing]

I'm in the. I'm at the default.

[Andy]

Okay, so it might be triangle then.

[Blessing]

Oh, for hold heavy.

[Andy]

No, it's the. On the bottom right. You could throw your kunai. Or you could throw like these. This magical fire orb. There it is.

[Blessing]

Oh yeah.

[Andy]

So try. If you hit triangle while you're holding R1. Yeah. You throw like a fire thing at him.

[Blessing]

Ah, yeah. I remember that from the. From the tut.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

You know what's me Perry's. I want to parry everything you can. This game isn't a parry.

[Andy]

Not until you unlock it. It's in your skill tree.

[Blessing]

Suda51 would love this game. You hear what he said yesterday? He doesn't like parries.

[Andy]

No.

[Blessing]

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, he was like. He was throwing a lot of. From software Shade.

[Andy]

Damn.

[Blessing]

Yeah, a lot of low key from software Suda51. And I respected it. Cuz I was asking. I forget what brought it up, but I had noticed that for when I played a little bit of Romeo's a Dead man for the preview, I was like, man, this game. This game doesn't have a parry. That's kind of crazy. And then he mentioned that he just he does not like parries.

[Andy]

I think if you have a sick ass dodge and like, I'm cool enough with that. Oh, my God. I started playing a Siri yesterday in Witcher 3. She's got that crazy like tracer. Oh, yeah. Dosh, dad. Dash.

[Blessing]

Dash.

[Andy]

Dash. And dad. She's got that little dash. Yeah. Because I'm still in the Bloody Baron storyline, which is crazy good playing a Siri in the Bloody Baron just for a little bit. Like you swap off to her and you do a little thing. It was weird. It was crazy. The. Yeah. I think if you have a satisfying dodge enough, I'm totally fine with not having a Perry. There are just some games that I feel like you should have parries in.

[Blessing]

It's like a gamer conservative opinion. You just should have them, you know,

[Andy]

you should have Perry's. Remember to be getting your key back whenever you.

[Blessing]

Oh, smart square with that.

[Andy]

Whatever. It's hard for me to tell you what button because I don't.

[Blessing]

It's R1 for me.

[Andy]

I'm on the different control scheme. Speaking of insane depth that we were talking about on the games cast for the combat unlocking, high stance, mid stance and low stance on the heavy weapons was cool. Crazy to me. I like that. Just added so much more and I was kind of like annoyed by it at first. But it. It's actually pretty neat the way it operates,

[Blessing]

brother.

[Andy]

There's that dodge or that. That grab ability again. It's the only one that isn't like a different color. It's like make that a purple or something. I don't know.

[Blessing]

Oh, I was about to hit it.

[Andy]

There's that transformation.

[Blessing]

There was a point where I was like, man, okay, I think I'm doing good. I was expecting to look at his health and have it be like halfway I looked, I was like, All right, Chad, we're locking in.

[Andy]

Buzz needs to work on his key replenish. Yeah, that's one that. Because it's is something you're just not used to. It's a mechanic that is never really experienced. And there it is.

[Blessing]

Like, are you hitting it after every hit or after every combo?

[Andy]

I usually do it after every combo because you. I see the amount that can be replenished.

[Blessing]

Even. Even missed hits.

[Andy]

Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Yeah. It just becomes second nature because the

[Blessing]

ninja doesn't work that way. Right?

[Andy]

Like.

[Blessing]

No does he does like a little spin spin.

[Andy]

When you hit the ninja does. Does the like. Leaving the ghost form, the ninja leaves his like little like, you know, phantasm behind.

[Blessing]

Oh, somebody Says it's time to summon the fallen homie. I forgot about that.

[Andy]

That's right. Doesn't Hell of us Hell is us have the same mechanic? Yeah, it has a very similar thing too. When you time things correctly, you get all of your. You get health back. Though in that case, I don't think you were getting stamina back. Yeah, you're getting health back. Dark Star.

[Blessing]

I like you.

[Andy]

Get Dark Star in there.

[Blessing]

Dude,

[Andy]

you invoked the acolyte. Dark Star.

[Blessing]

I wanted that.

[Andy]

A little too far. A little too far will be your undoing. That dude's got the Kusari Gama.

[Blessing]

Damn it.

[Andy]

You just know after that one big spin. The red's coming.

[Blessing]

Damn it. I want. Try to parry.

[Andy]

What am I doing? I'm playing another game.

[Blessing]

I failed.

[Andy]

Sick. Oh, crap. Hello. It's another game for my backlog, says Sky Hobie. Only I never finished. Hello, Z. I kind of. I fell off, but I. I enjoyed it enough. I'd say it was like a probably 7 out of 10 for me from what I played. Are they playing co op right now? No, Bless is unfortunately on PlayStation. I'm on. I played on PC. He summoned a. Just a dead acolyte that's out there. You can summon homies to fight with you for a lot of boss fights. And you can also summon bad guys to get, you know, more souls.

[Blessing]

I assume summoning a homie will make his health.

[Andy]

Probably makes him a little bit beefier. Maybe you can. Maybe you can sell more and kill a bunch of dudes behind or kill a dude or two behind you. Level up a couple times. Yeah, I need. I.

[Blessing]

What I need to do is honestly just. I need to learn the language of the game. Yeah, yeah, I know it, but it's about internalizing the language. Hitting that R1 button to get that key pulse going. Being used to having the two different fighting styles between the ninja and samurai. Not caring that being the big one. Yeah, I'm so used to parries now.

[Andy]

Little elixir right there.

[Blessing]

Hardly nowhere.

[Andy]

Got him. Ch. Come on.

[Blessing]

Let's say Wednesday. It's Wednesday Chat, you know.

[Andy]

Now what can we sell? I bet you got a bunch of that ain't making a damn difference for you right now if you just sell it all. Now you want to equip the good though, so like just equip the good. I mean, what I would do is hit art, go to make an offering. I would hit R1 and just go by weapon. So I first off, equip all the good and then let's worry about later

[Blessing]

because I thought I had the good equipped. You have like in here

[Andy]

in ninja style, you have a good weapon equipped. You have a gold one or the yellow or whatever. Yeah, that's the highest one.

[Blessing]

And if I switch over to samurai.

[Andy]

Oh, that is the highest one for damage. Okay. I thought the other one was above it, but I think you're sort of by newest, so I was used to not seeing it that way. So you could just sell. Sell everything, dude.

[Blessing]

Yeah, let's do it.

[Andy]

Tell it all. Who gives a. You're gonna get 90 new things in the next couple minutes anyway. And just hold that Y button down or that triangle button down and just like scroll down. Yeah. Oh, you probably want to go to all equipment on the left. Oh, smart. L1. Yeah. Yeah. There we go. Hit. Yes. Would that get me only 900 something. Now try to fight one of these little revenant dudes. These red guys behind you. Summon a dude beating Nasser too. Level three. You got that? It's nothing. That's nothing to you.

[Blessing]

Oh, shit. I forgot he was alive.

[Andy]

Oh, you respawn this dude.

[Blessing]

Oh, too early.

[Andy]

Is the Perrymore Lies of P or Sekiro. It's more Sekiro when you unlock it. But the game isn't based around having the Perry because the Perry is an unlockable thing. You could play the whole game without even unlocking the really good parry, like the deflect. But I would say that it plays a lot more like Sekiro in that respect.

[Blessing]

Rather die.

[Andy]

There we go.

[Blessing]

How do I use this thing to the bottom, right? That's glowing.

[Andy]

That's. Hold. Hold your heavy. Like charge your heavy. Gotcha.

[Blessing]

Oh, but it's only as him looking.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

Come on.

[Andy]

Ah.

[Blessing]

Oh.

[Andy]

I got it early. Oh, nice. You still get it. Okay. Sick. Nice. Pick up all that. Sell it if you can. I don't know if it's sellable or not.

[Blessing]

All right. We're slowly getting there. Let's try to get one level in. First of all. Let me see if that any of that shit's good. Nah,

[Andy]

you're set. You're set. You got the move set. And you got the juice. Yeah. Remember, you could also be just tossing out a bunch of kunai and fireballs at the dude as well.

[Blessing]

Hey, hold on. I might want to equip this thing.

[Andy]

I think you're still a couple hundred off. Maybe that was a shirt. Yeah, that's better. Blue. A little bit more armor, but some more perks. And also the more you use weapons, it has this weapon familiarity Feature where the more you use a weapon, the more you get to know it, the more you get to know about its lifestyle, where it came from, the its family, its friends. But the familiarity will go up and it'll equal more damage. So the more you use a weapon type or just weapon period, you get more familiar with it and you get. It becomes stronger over time.

[Blessing]

Bless you.

[Andy]

Thank you. Oh my God. How does the exploration level work on map? It tells you certain zones are only recommended for certain levels. So you just know. All right. I probably shouldn't be there if this is recommended. 50 and I'm a level, you know, 35 or whatever.

[Blessing]

Oh wait, I'm so. I'm still like 600 away. All right, let's kill this guy. Kill a remnant and then I feel like that'll get me there.

[Andy]

Oh, remember you could, you could creep up to this dude and belk.

[Blessing]

I want to, man. I want a one on one fight, you know, Put them dukes up.

[Andy]

Oh, Oh, there.

[Blessing]

There we go. I just gotta enter the zone.

[Andy]

Yeah, yeah. Enter the zone.

[Blessing]

Gotta enter. Enter the zone.

[Andy]

Let him enter the zone chat. I was saying, I was saying creep up on him though, just to get to do the bigger chunk of damage quicker. Like you. Oh, you immediately like crit him or whatever. Was this katana from a free range spin? All right, do you have any spirit stones to use also? Oh, you did. Okay.

[Blessing]

I mean, I'm already there.

[Andy]

You did? Yeah, yeah. All right.

[Blessing]

What's going to help me help my web?

[Andy]

I would probably do health again maybe. Cuz sometimes health will level up weapons as well. Oh yeah. Like it's, it's. And also if you level up stamina or strength or heart, it also levels up your health a little bit as well. Like Constitution will always do 30 to 40 extra health, but the other ones might do 10 health while doing damage. So I would go for hard because that's going to boost up your weapon that you're using right now in addition to your health a little bit.

[Blessing]

All right, I think I'm ready.

[Andy]

Go for it. You got this.

[Blessing]

Oh, well, let me look at my equipment that I got from this guy real quick.

[Andy]

Nino Afrini asks, anybody know when the kind of uniforms usually drop? I want to participate. Next time I would say just look out for different posts on social media and look out for Patreon posts from Greg because he's the one who releases them. Here we go. Here we go.

[Blessing]

No.

[Andy]

Oh, there it is. There it is.

[Blessing]

Oh, I was practice.

[Andy]

Yeah, his. His controller unplugged. Chat. You didn't. You didn't see it happens. We're gonna have to wait to give it another shot. Less no, because we have to listen to a word from our sponsors.

[Greg]

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[Blessing]

My favorite feature is that you could find a solution that works but then afterwards you can hit solution and see the way that they were trying to teach you to do it. That's really cool.

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[Blessing]

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[Andy]

and we're back everybody. I have a super chat here from Gents fc. Thank you for your support. Says I'm in a delay, so please forgive me. This has been answered. You just tried co OP and Neo3. Seems cool based on what I've read and you just. And the boys doing a playthrough.

[Blessing]

We talked about that during gamescast. We brought that up during the gamescast.

[Andy]

Oh, shoot. Yeah, we did. We did, we did. Sorry, I looked at the icon and I thought it was today's stream thumbnail. My bad. My apologies. But yes, no, we didn't have any experience with it. Unfortunately. Will be your undoing.

[Blessing]

Just want to double check you're seeing gameplay out there.

[Andy]

Yes. Okay. Yeah. Oh, nice. Oh, he's gritted. He's critical.

[Blessing]

I gotta kill. Oh.

[Andy]

Oh. Ah.

[Blessing]

You know what's fucking me up too is I keep trying to do Souls controls and so I'll press RT when

[Andy]

I don't talk to that dude.

[Blessing]

I don't. I have a weird thing with switching controls in games where like as soon as I see what the default is, like my brain just locks in. And now it's that when I switch it, my brain wants to do. I don't know, it's like. It's a weird thing. It's like I want to click the default even though I just switched it

[Andy]

to the thing because it works out just as good. It's like it's not like I'm switching control schemes and. And being really like experiencing a mechanic in a very detrimental way. Like everything still works like it should. Be your undoing. This is one of those definitely Patient Pete fights chat where you're not gonna kill him in four hits. You're gonna want to just poke here and there, bounce out, poke here and there, bounce out. And then recognize the big spin is going to lead into the red. And that's where I'm going to really punish his ass. I always set an action game to Soul controls. I need it just cuz I want my thumb to stay on the right stick rotating the camera, Get a couple licks in, bounce out. This dude probably filtered a ton of people. The demo had a million downloads. Yeah, probably. But I also think Team Ninja has been doing it big enough for a long time that I think if you're downloading the demo, you know you want to play this game. And if you're downloading the demo, you've played a lot of other Souls games too. Like if you're downloading the demo for Neo 3, there's no chance you aren't into souls games. You're not just happening upon it. You've definitely been through the lies of peas and Neo2s. And Wo Long.

[Blessing]

Wo Long.

[Andy]

And Wukong.

[Blessing]

And Wukong.

[Andy]

Yeah. And Wu Chang. Fallen Feathers.

[Blessing]

Wukong, Fallen dynasty.

[Andy]

You should play Wu Chong Feathers. Yeah, it's better than this game.

[Blessing]

From your very body. Oh, not what I wanted to do.

[Andy]

Needlessness. Your Rob ball. Thanks for gifting out a subscription. Appreciate you. Nice dodge. Low stamina.

[Blessing]

Where are you? Oh, he's doing the grab.

[Andy]

I see. Yeah, the grab is the worst. Some of these dudes have incredible grab attacks. The animations are great, but like, man, they just hurt so much. It's the same speed as 1 and 2. If anything I've seen that, say, 2 is a lot harder. That's what I assume. I assume that 1 and 2 are harder than this. Cuz I. I would say Wo Long Fallen Dynasty. You know, I was spending several hours on bosses in that game and this one, I think it's a. I think it's a lot easier. Like the max I've taken on a boss is about I think an hour. And that was like one boss every. Everything else was like a couple tries, if not like 30 minutes or something. That attack is nasty.

[Blessing]

Crazy.

[Andy]

Oh, that's like you really want to bait out that. That red one's a good one. Oh, get in there. Get in there.

[Blessing]

Why didn't you do it? Why didn't you do it? Oh, God.

[Andy]

I think you were maybe moving or maybe you didn't have enough key. And I normally do that with my. In samurai mode. It may not make a difference. Oh, but to me I'm like, oh, I have a stronger weapon. This is better, right? But maybe it isn't.

[Blessing]

Kevin, did you just burp?

[Andy]

No, I think an enemy got it.

[Blessing]

Oh, was that the enemy? I heard what?

[Andy]

Or I heard that sound, but I think it was somebody like, I thought

[Blessing]

Kevin burped in the microphone. I would never do that.

[Andy]

No, Kevin is very anti burp.

[Blessing]

Cole's barking. Could it be that.

[Andy]

No, he was definitely not that. I don't think so.

[Blessing]

Oh, it's video game.

[Andy]

Anthony Davis to the Wizards. Dude, the Mavericks, man. The Mavericks traded Luka Doncic for Anthony Davis. And they said defense win championships. And then they know that Anthony Davis's ass is always in the hospital. Cuz he's always hurt. He's always on the bench. And they traded him. That's insane.

[Blessing]

The P rears its head I from your very body.

[Andy]

Needlessness will Be your undoing. Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah. Remember to be throwing your fireballs out, too. Whenever he's busy. Oh, he's hurt. There we go. And I think these regenerate. Maybe there's something about my build, but during my fight, my. During my fighting, my ninja will always regenerate. Like the little feather and the. And the throwing stars. And they're good just to spam and take out more ticks of damage. Oh, get in there. Nice. Was able to withstand that hit, though. That was nice.

[Blessing]

Oh, nice.

[Andy]

This is the run Chat. Everybody get. Everybody get ready.

[Blessing]

No.

[Andy]

As I was streaming the Witcher. As I was Streaming the Witcher 3 yesterday, I was just like, dude, sorry, Chat. I played Neo for about eight hours today, and every button in my mind is like, Witcher 3 already. Kind of controls in a weird way. Like, not traditionally to what I'm used to with, you know, the more modern action games, but my brain is in a totally different control scheme. Like, I'm doing everything incorrectly.

[Blessing]

Oh, I have to have a thing to summon them. I didn't realize it was, like, a currency.

[Andy]

The one you had to, like, spend

[Blessing]

a currency to summon your homies.

[Andy]

Oh, I didn't know that. Is it gold or just, like, some.

[Blessing]

It was like cups.

[Andy]

Hey, let's be clear. Nico was the only one who said defense was. Oh, no, I know. Nico was the only one who said that. I know, Chat. I know. Dallas has been booing and hating Nico forever ever since they traded him. Oh. You need to fight the red remnants and you get the cups to summon.

[Blessing]

Okay, First, Berserker Gazan does the same exact thing.

[Andy]

All right.

[Blessing]

Oh. Oh, crazy wind up.

[Andy]

I never summon in these games, and that sounds like a flex, and it's not. It's because the enemies being aggroed by other people throws me the off.

[Blessing]

Oh, yeah.

[Andy]

And, like, the same thing happens in Elden Ring, where I'm used to the 1v1. I know how you move, and if you're getting distracted and then you come to me, I'm like. It throws me the off, and I hate that.

[Blessing]

Oh, oh,

[Andy]

Oh.

[Blessing]

I got thrown off.

[Andy]

I got thrown off. Yeah, you were. I was locked in. He was in the.

[Blessing]

I was in panic mode.

[Andy]

He was in the. I was trying to.

[Blessing]

I was trying to, like, recap. Re. Re.

[Andy]

Get. Like, they put him in the blender right there. Thank you, Tom Hughes, 33 months of support using your Tier 1 love on Twitch, supporting us here at Kind of funny. Thank you so much for the love. You help keep the lights and the mics on you help us stay in business, so thank you for your support.

[Blessing]

I don't know why I make that sound. I feel like that's a new sound for me.

[Andy]

What?

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Andy]

Oh, man. I'm always yelping and yelling.

[Blessing]

I do yelp a lot while I'm playing these games. But that specific sound, maybe I do that on stream and because I have my headphones in, it doesn't sound. Sound is weird to me, but not just doing it in the big studio.

[Andy]

Now imagine this. Imagine you're fighting. You have a back paddle on your back.

[Blessing]

A back paddle would change the game right now.

[Andy]

Come on, man. Come on. Yeah. Remember to just be key pulsing. Keep on doing your key pulse. Recharge that stammy from your very body. I just hate the angles he comes from. Dodge into the attacks. When you dodge away from the attacks, it's always gonna clip you on your little ankle on the way out. Dodge into the swing. Yeah. Always go into the direction of danger. Yes, yes, yes. And at this point, run away. Throw a bunch of fireballs, back the up and just like, just hound him with. With the. Yeah, the triangles. Just. Just hit him a bunch of. Use all of them. Throw all your kunai and they'll recharge during the fight.

[Blessing]

No, no.

[Andy]

Did they buff this guy since the first ammo? He seems a bit beefier. I have no idea.

[Blessing]

He does seem like he takes a lot to take down. But this is my. Also my first boss fight in this game, so I don't know.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

The norm

[Andy]

for me, the quintessential bless on is. Oh, when he starts doom scrolling. You're wrong. Oh. Oh.

[Blessing]

I don't even. I didn't even know that was a sound.

[Andy]

Me either. I didn't know that either. But that's kind of like the.

[Blessing]

Oh, I was reading comments.

[Andy]

That's the sound everybody makes. Whenever you're looking at a. At a web page. You're scrolling a web page you're going to see here.

[Blessing]

Oh, I pressed.

[Andy]

Kind of makes sounds.

[Blessing]

Sons of team Ninja. You know, I pressed the button.

[Andy]

It's because we're playing with a bunch of delay here. Blast. It's not your fault, man. It's the player Goliath.

[Blessing]

All right.

[Andy]

Don't blame the tech side. We've done a lot of advancing with technology.

[Blessing]

All right.

[Andy]

A lot of strides have been made. You're right. You're right. Anytime in the past, I'd have to play a game out here. Dodging to the move. Go into the danger. Let tried Go into the danger zone anytime. We've had to play a game out here, Chad. I'm like, all right, I'm going to be playing with a second of delay.

[Blessing]

We fixed that.

[Andy]

You did. No, they totally did. They totally did.

[Blessing]

All right, hold on.

[Andy]

Let me just.

[Blessing]

We reorient.

[Andy]

Buy more of the red guys. Get the juices to summon the blue guys. Fight the red guys.

[Blessing]

The red guys. I'm locked in.

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

He's like, I'm locked in.

[Andy]

He's locked in.

[Blessing]

I'm not locked in.

[Andy]

He's not.

[Blessing]

I'm not locked in.

[Andy]

This guy's a righty. And you keep on dodging to the right as well. Just go to the left, and it's gonna just change your whole.

[Blessing]

I don't know, you pay attention to, like, if they're a rider or left.

[Andy]

Well, he definitely will swing left every now and then, but he keeps on doing this.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Andy]

And when he's doing that, if you dodge away, the end of his stick's gonna hit you.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Andy]

When you're dodging away. So I always, like, go into the danger. Go to where the swing is coming from. Why aren't gamescast plays in the lab? They usually are. This one is not. Because they're doing something in the lab right now.

[Blessing]

And also. Wait, you don't like that?

[Andy]

Yeah, what's up? No, I think they're just saying, like, well, isn't it a better gaming experience in there?

[Blessing]

Oh, yeah, sure. Yeah. Actually, that does make sense.

[Andy]

I always dodge left or right. Don't dodge back. Th percent th percent. You dodge back, you're going to get clipped on your little. Your little toe.

[Blessing]

This is the one. I was. I was locked in for a few runs, and then I lost it. But I think I'm. I need to get back to how I used to be, you know, mess around and become the old me.

[Andy]

I would say when you're. When you're feeling the fear of being far away, throw all your. Throw your kunai. Throw all that. It'll. It'll regenerate during the fight. Throw all of it and then get back into the battle and throw more of that. Yes, yes, yes. Just spam that. Yeah. Oh, that's a tough one. I didn't think you got hit there. I'm gonna check back the tape. Ah, nice. Nice.

[Blessing]

Oh, man

[Andy]

chat.

[Blessing]

How long did it take you guys to beat this boss?

[Andy]

Everybody say three hours. Somebody said 17 tries.

[Blessing]

17.

[Andy]

I. I did see that earlier.

[Blessing]

Make me feel better, Chad.

[Andy]

Make him feel better. Make him feel better. You got this dude, you got this. Once again, this is gamescast plays. Thank you everybody for watching and hanging out with us. We are checking out Neo3, which comes out fully tomorrow, but there's a demo available right now that you could download. Play it. Tell me how wrong I am about all my bad opinions. But it's a. It's a real long demo, which is amazing.

[Blessing]

Oh, I was blocking. I broke my thing. Oh, I had the right ideas.

[Andy]

Yeah, Throw that. That grab is just so nasty. It's so hard to see. Oh, nice. There it is. There we go. There we go.

[Blessing]

Oh, I for some reason thought that might have given me shield or something.

[Andy]

You will have upgrades that allow you to take more damage when you're charging ahead.

[Blessing]

Okay.

[Andy]

You'll have more like, you know, take 12 less damage while charging an attack or. Or while attacking, period. They should give you the option to run away, right? What if I choose peace? You know, I love that. I love the movement. Got him in the blender now. Doesn't know where the hell he's going. Yes, the saves do carry over.

[Blessing]

Strength.

[Andy]

Chat. I need us all to type in the number one. Cuz Blessing's number one. I need to see all the hype. I need to see all the excitement in chat. Let's hype him up. Let's get this dub right here. And also let's dodge left less.

[Blessing]

This is the one, Dodge. I don't know why I didn't realize I had the habit of dodging. Right.

[Andy]

I think Dodge is what you're comfortable with.

[Blessing]

Yeah, but this one doesn't count.

[Andy]

Yeah, that one doesn't count.

[Blessing]

This one doesn't count. This is my.

[Andy]

It's just the end of his attacks are always going in there. There's the ones. There's the ones. I also, he's using a stupid controller Chat. You know, he doesn't have the back paddles.

[Blessing]

I didn't want to be here today, Chad.

[Andy]

Yeah, he does. He's pissed.

[Blessing]

I told Roger. I was like, yo, we had to do games.

[Andy]

He was in Greg's face earlier. They were yelling at each other.

[Blessing]

Neo Headlines is a lot, is it not? Why are we doing two Neo Headlines

[Andy]

back in the back?

[Blessing]

God damn it.

[Andy]

My head. It's windy in the studio. Exactly. There's a lot of stuff happening.

[Blessing]

I can put up Tekken. Let's call Mitchell. Saltzman

[Andy]

taking it. Mitchell. Sa.

[Blessing]

Get Mitchell.

[Andy]

Give Mitchell that ass in here.

[Blessing]

All right. Why isn't he here playing the game

[Andy]

that he loves so much?

[Blessing]

God damn you. Give it a 9 out of 10

[Andy]

you make him play it. Let me get in there. Let me just do one. I'm not I'm not going to beat it.

[Blessing]

Oh yeah, I'm not going to beat it.

[Andy]

I just want to see what the. And I'm and I'm just know I

[Blessing]

have the default controls on.

[Andy]

I'm not saying I'm not going to beat it because I'm not trying. I'm just not going to beat it cuz. Cuz he will likely. I'm going to swap over just real quick. Just real quick chat. I'm going to go to type D. Type D chat.

[Blessing]

I don't have o type these nuts.

[Andy]

All right. I all right. My dodge is still going to me up.

[Blessing]

Oh he's locked in. He's locked in.

[Andy]

He's going to beat it. How do I heal up?

[Blessing]

I failed.

[Andy]

Bait that out all the time. You want him to do that. He thinks that's going to help him. It's not blessed you want that.

[Blessing]

Guy knows the buttons, man.

[Andy]

But dodging so weird. Not on the back paddle. I'm cheating with the back paddle. Dodge.

[Blessing]

He's locked.

[Andy]

Punish that. Make sure he regrets using that move.

[Blessing]

This a bad idea.

[Andy]

Oh, I think he does like some different here. Does he do something else?

[Blessing]

Oh does he have a phase two

[Andy]

I I thought or he adds like a new move to the arsenal. Oh, I thought I did it.

[Blessing]

He went easy.

[Andy]

Not know my own strength. Come on, you got this. You got this.

[Blessing]

I like how you dodge directly left and right. Like usually I dodge like inward like I have the like I kind of want to like always kind of like go for like the what you call the eye frame there but you kind of like do a side step that I like.

[Andy]

I usually I I guess I try to go into wherever the attack is coming from. Thank you Giant bomb for the raid. Welcome in Giant bomb. How we doing Gamers bless is trying out Neo.

[Blessing]

Yeah like that. You kind of do like a lesson left, right Dodge.

[Andy]

I've put in a buttload of hours in you. Oh my bad, my bad.

[Blessing]

I was like what's happening?

[Andy]

My bad.

[Blessing]

What are the buttons?

[Andy]

R R1, L1.

[Blessing]

What's the key?

[Andy]

Triangles. Oh square. Square. Okay. Triangle is a form switch.

[Blessing]

It's okay.

[Andy]

You still got full stammy. That's the. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Blessing]

Ah I gotta change the controls anyway.

[Andy]

Yeah yeah. This game's super easy as ninja. You want to get behind impossible. Yeah, the ninja does more damage when behind. Oh yeah.

[Blessing]

I remember them saying that in the early game

[Andy]

and that's where you're in classic souls mode. Go to configure controls and then type A. Type A. And in classic control souls. Sort of a terminology. You want to get in that cooter from behind, hit him in the butt. It would be hilarious if. Let's got this run with a new button layout.

[Blessing]

I know. For a second I was like, oh, this feels kind of good. And then I forgot everything.

[Andy]

It's the square in the triangle that will really kind of mess it up.

[Blessing]

And you got the muscle memory for that down.

[Andy]

Yeah. Once you start seeing that spin, you just know. All right, here, dodge left, Dodge left triangle or whatever it is for you, because that's. That's gonna do the most damage for sure. Oh, great. Dodges. There we go.

[Blessing]

My f.

[Andy]

No, stammy back away. No.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

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[Andy]

Oh. That was a fire move. I was like, what was that? How you do a bomb.

[Blessing]

Oh, I see what you mean by. By dodge, dodge. Then triangles.

[Andy]

That. You're heavy.

[Blessing]

No, what's triangle for you?

[Andy]

Triangle's my form change. That's my. My like big Perry or whatever. Yeah. The moments where you were behind him doing a lot of damage, but you had no key. No. Stammy left at that point. It's like, pull out of the fight. Let that recharge. Yes. Yeah. Low. Stammy, back up, back up. The disrespect healing in his face. Oh, he's so low to being broken. Go for it. Yes. Now he's broken. Do the thing.

[Blessing]

I was standing still.

[Andy]

Oh, nice side dodge. Like that.

[Blessing]

What. What is that sound? You hear that?

[Andy]

That's your character going like. Like.

[Blessing]

Oh, it sounds so much like Kevin burst into the microphone.

[Andy]

It sounds like it's on a different sound layer. Yeah. Like it's not.

[Blessing]

It doesn't sound like it's from the game.

[Andy]

It's not super mixed in. Well, it sounds very like above the rest of the mix. Yeah, like somebody forgot to add reverb and integrate it correctly. You just hear a bunch of. And then like way too high. Yeah, this guy's pissed. Cuz. He. He just. You're pissing him off. He's like, enough. We're going to come.

[Blessing]

There's two of us pissed right now. I'm pissed on playing this right now. Oh, I'm not. I'm not locked in.

[Andy]

Oo.

[Blessing]

Try to get there.

[Andy]

Recognize that spin. Yamagata is so sad when he has lost like 1/6 of his health. Don't be so, so hard on yourself, bro. Just. Just watching this. I could Tell it's not for me. Sage, do you mess with any Action Combat RPG games? Action RPGs or character action souls? Like, See, I thought that was the grab because I thought I saw the sparkly. Yes. Bait that out.

[Blessing]

It's the thing where I keep getting the controls mixed up with themselves. I keep wanting to play this, like, another souls game, and then I keep. If I use the other controls, I'll do the same thing.

[Andy]

Yeah, yeah. Everybody has performance anxiety, but sometimes.

[Blessing]

Oh, it's not even that. It's just that I'm not used to the game yet.

[Andy]

No, I'm just talking.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Andy]

Bait out that if you stay close enough, he's going to continuously do that, and you're just like, I want you to do that. You think that's your move? That's my move, dog. Listen. You think that that's, like, your advantage? I see that red. I'm seeing red. You know?

[Blessing]

R you to switch dance.

[Andy]

Yes, yes.

[Blessing]

From your very body.

[Andy]

Back up. No stammy. There we go. There we go. Needlessness will be yours. This isn't Ninja Gaiden. We're not spamming buttons. We're not playing DMC or Bayonetta. We have a stammy bar, and we are abiding by it. Love it. Back up. Yeah. Good. Yeah. Oh, yes. Love that. Love it. I felt the horniness.

[Blessing]

Yeah.

[Andy]

I felt. The horniness was palpable. I felt blessed. Like, I'm gonna kill you right here. I wanna.

[Blessing]

I just want his health to be lower. Is that too much to add?

[Andy]

Yeah.

[Blessing]

He's like, why do you have so much junkie?

[Andy]

He's chunky. You could try to level up one more time. Like, it doesn't take much. There's a. There's a lot of people you just walked by that are gonna drop and kill them.

[Blessing]

I'm locked into this guy.

[Andy]

I feel that. I feel that.

[Blessing]

I also don't know how much time we have left in the street.

[Andy]

I feel that.

[Blessing]

So I could probably.

[Andy]

We're going until you beat this guy.

[Blessing]

I was gonna say one or two more times.

[Andy]

You got this guy. You got this guy.

[Blessing]

It's okay. I don't need to beat this guy.

[Andy]

You're always gonna want to. Like, it sounds dumb and easy, but you're gonna want to attack when he's done attacking. Of course, Andy, that makes sense. But when he's attacking, his key bar is going low and low and low and low. Yeah. Because he's expending his stamina, and then that means it's Less for you to break him because you give him a chance to breathe like that. Then you could do, like, poke damage. But his key bar is going to go all the way back up. I'm just gonna call it stammy. You know, say Stammy. Stammy from now on. Stammy key. Oh, yes, Yes. Couple swipes and then hit that. Regen. Stammy. Regen.

[Blessing]

No. Oh, no. I didn't want that. But it's a.

[Andy]

Okay.

[Blessing]

I hate the controls in this game.

[Andy]

Dude, I'm telling you. Swap over to the other controls right now.

[Blessing]

No, I'll it up even worse if I. If I swap. Oh, I wanted that. I, like, went in for the counter. Ah.

[Andy]

Okay. One more try.

[Blessing]

One more try.

[Andy]

One more try. Chat. One more time. We bring it home for the troops. Is there anything more satisfying in this game than a perfect parry? Dude, when you can finally upgrade your and you get the Sekiro deflect. It sounds so nice.

[Blessing]

Very funny. One more try after this one.

[Andy]

Yeah, one more try.

[Blessing]

I can't do one where I get hit first.

[Andy]

You know that's a bad omen. No, no, stammy. Omega Buster. 62 months of support. Thank you, Omega Buster. Appreciate you subscribing. Supporting. Should the deflect have been sooner? What do you mean? Like the. The acquiring of it. Because it doesn't take very long at all to acquire the defl. Yes. Yes. Yeah, it doesn't take very long at all, Sphinx. It's like one of the first things I got. No Stammy back up. No stammy at all. Yes. That 4 combo is a nasty one.

[Sponsor/Ad Voice]

Ah.

[Andy]

Spin and coming down red. Oh, no. Damn, I thought that was the red one.

[Blessing]

Ah. One more. Last one.

[Andy]

He's getting.

[Blessing]

This is the last one.

[Andy]

He's getting this one. This is the one. Chat.

[Blessing]

At the very least, I want my last room to at least be a good one. Even if I don't kill him, I want to like. I want to feel okay with it.

[Andy]

No stammy. No stammy. Gonna unsubscribe unless Annie interacts the chat more sleepy dad. Thank you for your prime gaming. Yes. Wow. That was scary. Massive. Nah, that grab ain't doing dog.

[Blessing]

Oh.

[Andy]

I'll tell you why I have the tendency to dodge left and right. Because I can never dodge towards him when the attack is like, right coming down at me. Yes. Massive. That's huge. Oh, that's a secret red one.

[Blessing]

Damn it.

[Andy]

That's what I meant by the second face stuff. He changes it up and like, we'll bust out the red one quicker and it kind of really throws you off. But one more try.

[Blessing]

I'll do one more. I'll do one more. Yeah. I'll do one more. Yeah.

[Andy]

Andy, check Discord dms. Okay, I'll check. I don't ever look at Discord DMS because I never. I don't know how to use that app. I only go into chats. I only go into voice chats. It's the only thing I'm good at.

[Blessing]

I don't have my thing charged. Oh, I'm on the wrong moveset.

[Andy]

What?

[Blessing]

I was trying to throw my ninja thing.

[Andy]

Oh. Filipino Mamba. 133 months says one more for Oakland.

[Blessing]

Bless, bro.

[Andy]

Oklahoma, dude. This is for Oakland. This is for Oakland. All right, back away. No stammy. No stammy. Yes. I love this. This is the. This is the energy, right? No more throwables. And even though you can't parry when you're on your samurai mode, the block still does, you know? Stop. It hurts your stamina. But you won't take a health hit if you're blocking. At least. Will been your. Oh, I'm doing. I love the poking and prodding. Right here.

[Blessing]

Cheeky.

[Andy]

Oh, stalemate. Yes. Yes.

[Blessing]

Oh, I thought I hit it.

[Andy]

Oh. Oh, wow. Holy. He choked that. Yes. I love that. Oh,

[Blessing]

God. Get out.

[Andy]

Just on edge right now.

[Greg]

A might be fitting that of the Crimson Army. You must summon Kuwait Sanagi at once and eliminate them.

[Blessing]

What is that?

[Andy]

Hit triangle and circle at the same time. Now you have, like, an ultimate kind of move to like. Or keep on attacking and you'll see your bar go away. But play as you normally would while you're still swinging. Still dodge when you need to, though. Yes, yes, yes, yes. But still keep dodging because getting hit will make it go away faster. Yes. Yes, yes.

[Blessing]

Let's fucking go. Come on, come on, come on. That's what's up. I needed that. I needed that. I was about to be so salty. I don't know if you understand. That's a rude day. I don't think you understand how salt is. I was fucking getting. I was getting ready to show up to KG tomorrow and being like, yo, fuck this game. Yo, fuck Neo. And he gave it a seven. It should have been a four. It should have been a three and a half. Like, we're not going low enough on the review scale anymore. God damn.

[Andy]

Thank you, everybody, for watching this episode of Gamescast plays with Nioh 3. Let us know if you plan on playing Nioh 3. Remember, the demo is fully available. And it's a meaty one. It's like a 15 hour demo. People have been taking forever to beat it. There's a lot of game in there. Check it out. New three will be available fully tomorrow. I believe. The fourth or the fifth.

[Blessing]

Oh, yeah, I think.

[Andy]

Right?

[Blessing]

Sounds about right.

[Andy]

Something like that. Thank you so much for watching everybody. Take care of yourself. Take care of each other. We'll see you all next time. Sitting idle. A most pleasant surprise.

[Blessing]

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[Andy]

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[Andy]

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[Andy]

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[Andy]

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[Blessing]

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