To start off, amazing game. A lot of improvements over Nioh 2, combat is mostly the same but it has even much more depth with every type of build you can make, or what to specialize in. New weapons, enemies, etcetera. However, this isn't about how cool it is, rather a PSA about an overlooked, insane issue.

The framerate. Whatever you do - if you appreciate your sanity and time - do not. And I mean it. Do NOT play this on 120fps. The game is not made for it, Team Ninja did not think about it becoming an issue.

120fps is literally a hidden difficulty modifier. Everyone that plays this on consoles doesn't care because they usually run in 30 to 50 (MAYBE 60fps) fps, but it becomes a glaring issue on PC.

"Why is it a hidden difficulty modifier?"

- Everything moves too fast, and most of the time, faster than you will ever be. That includes projectles
- It becomes a hack and slash game that wasn't meant for the Ki systems
- Enemy attack tracking becomes a hitscan, and unless you somehow perfectly dodge every time, you WILL get hit no matter what you do
- Parries are a nightmare to get right, moves like the Sword's backwave or the Odachi's counter literally cease to exist because the timing window disappears in the blink of an eye
- Enemies recover almost instantaneously whenever their ki is broken compared to you, so you barely even have 5 seconds to land some attacks before they recover and hit you back immediately
- Enemy attacks come out so fast you WILL take extra damage because they technically become multi-hit attacks
- Your Ki recovers faster, similar to enemies, but chances are they WILL attack immediately and either grapple you or hit you 7 more times with a mach 10 combo
- Your i-frames poof out of existence and barely even work, made worse by the fact enemy tracking doesn't care how much you dodge out of the way

And probably more I didn't even notice. The game itself gets broken by the frames, it gives no chances to recover and you have to be faster than the game. I went through the entire game for 100 hours before I realized something was very, very wrong with how it worked.

Basically, the in-game difficulties mean nothing. The real difficulty is in the game's framerate:

30fps - Dream of the Samurai and Strong
60fps - Dream of the Demon and Wise
120fps - Dream of the Nioh (AKA Turbo mode/The game hates you and wants you dead)

If you really hate yourself and want it to be hard from the get-go, then shift your frames to 120. Have fun.

simply amazing

this is one of the video games of all time