NiOh 2 Reveals More Historical Characters with New Screenshots on Famitsu

Today’s issue of Weekly Famitsu included new screenshots of the upcoming masocore game NiOh 2 by Team Ninja.

We learn that three more historical characters will make an appearance in the game.

Those are Hachisuka Masakatsu, Shibata Katsuie, and Maeda Toshiie.

All three of them were retainers and generals during the Sengoku era. Hachisuka Masakatsu served Toyotomi Hideyoshi, while the other two were in service of Oda Nobunaga.

You can see them in action below, alongside their guardian spirits.

If you want to see more, you can enjoy the latest batch of screenshots, the latest trailer, some additional details about the beta from yesterday, more info from the day before including a character design contest, a couple of screenshots from the beta, plenty of videos showing the basics of combat gameplay, the previous trailer, the latest multiplayer gameplay, another set of videos, a gallery of images, another batch of screenshots, and plenty more images from the day before.

Recently, Twinfinite attended a presentation by Producer Fumihiko Yasuda, who shared a lot of interesting details about the game, including an overview of its extensive multiplayer features.

NiOh 2 will release (at least for now) exclusively for PS4 on March 13, 2020.

[Source: Weekly Famitsu]

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