Nioh 3's demo is a junk food addict's take on Elden Ring

Published 2 days ago• 1 minute read

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Great artists steal, so the old maxim goes. But can choosing to steal from ever-more-ambitious projects push those imitators to similarly expanded heights? When your whole deal is copying off of someone else’s paper, is there room to doodle something genuinely new and cool in the margins? The recently available alpha demo for Nioh 3 suggests it might be possible.

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