NIOH is a third person hack and slash with heavy Dark Souls influences with its gameplay. We tried out the Alpha demo that was released on April 26th 2016 and got to experience dying a lot. With it being more fast paced than Dark Souls it can become very difficult very quickly! But it’s well worth persevering with and certainly worth trying out! After an hour of playing I really started getting into it, its a game where you take 2 steps forward and 1 back and balancing tactics, skill and caution is key to progression. originally announced back in 2004, NIOH has been in development for a long time, and it’s staggeringly obvious that it has taken major influences from Dark Souls. Whether it started out that way, or whether it has been molded to that genre over its years is a top debate, with people mainly thinking it is a clone of Dark Souls set in a Japanese ninja like world. Team Ninja is famed for its Ninja Gaiden series and of course the Dead Or Alive fighting game franchise. With Ninja Gaiden, players took on the role of Ryu Hayabusa and gameplay was super fast button mashing with emphasis on timing and combos, it was brutally difficult and now, NIOH has seemed to have combined the best parts of Ninja Gaiden with a more refined and tactical combat and progression system that feels very good, and fresh! I personally can’t wait to play the full game when it is released on the 28th of October 2016. If you haven't tried the demo yet i suggest you do! but if you can’t for whatever reason or the demo has now bee taken down then please join us in our video as we go through and experience it together. Brendan.