Have you heard the word ‘masocore‘ before? It’s a portmanteau of ‘masochist’ and ‘hardcore’, and it’s what Team Ninja used to describe the first few games in the Nioh franchise. In an interview a long time ago, Yosuke Hayashi (general producer at Team Ninja) told me that the team working on the Nioh games never really wanted to make them ‘Soulslikes’, and thought that ‘masocore’ suited the developer’s vision slightly better.
