Nioh 3 review: Team Ninja almost gets it Elden Ring moment

As soon as you’re through Nioh 3’s tutorial, Tokugawa Takechiro — the game’s protagonist and soon-to-be shogun — emerges into a world with an ominous red hue across the sky and a colossal, demonic eye with descending claws, evidently the source. It’s stunning, but it’s clear at this moment that this is to the Nioh series what Elden Ring is to the Souls games: a bigger and bolder sequel that, for better or for worse, is a clear imitation of FromSoftware’s magnum opus.