Ninja Gaiden’s Ryu Hayabusa Joins Nioh 2 Following Patch

Gamers can now bounce into Nioh 2 dressed because the legendary Ryu Hayabusa due to Workforce Ninja’s latest addition of the Dragon Ninja pores and skin.

One of the notoriously tough traditional JRPGs starring a ninja who fights hordes demons and monsters by Workforce Ninja will probably be making a cameo within the latest title by the identical developer, Nioh 2. This cameo comes within the type of Ninja Gaiden protagonist Ryu Hayabusa, who ought to slot in fairly nicely with the Darkish Souls-impressed JRPG through which a ninja fights hordes of demons and monsters.

The announcement of the brand new cameo comes alongside the latest reveal that Workforce Ninja will probably be releasing a Ninja Gaiden Master Collection, bringing three of the largest video games within the collection to fashionable consoles. Nonetheless, celebration or not, Ryu is not precisely an unknown entity for the Nioh collection, because the legendary ninja’s ancestor has made an look prior to now.

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This new cameo comes within the type of a pores and skin that gamers will have the ability to get hold of in an latest patch recognized inside Nioh 2 because the “Dragon Ninja” outfit. So on this newest look, Ryu will probably be arriving as a fancy dress for gamers to placed on whereas they play by way of nearly all of the sport, versus displaying up as a boss combat or NPC. The brand new pores and skin may be accessed by way of the Boons tab within the Shrine menu, which is used to retrieve nearly all of the sport’s downloadable content material that was launched after launch.

As talked about earlier than, this is not the primary time {that a} Hayabusa has been pulled from the Ninja Gaiden collection into the Workforce Ninja’s newest franchise, although the final encounter was a bit extra confrontational. The character Jin Hayabusa had beforehand develop into a boss in Nioh as the ultimate encounter obtainable within the third DLC pack, Bloodshed’s Finish. This combat shortly turned infamous as probably the most tough encounter within the recreation, resulting from Jin’s unbelievable velocity and injury output, even for high-level characters.

For some gamers, it is likely to be disappointing to not see Ryu arrive in the identical method that Jin did with an impossibly tough combat, however others will probably be grateful to not should relive the punishing encounter. Nonetheless, most of the free skins and armor Team Ninja has released for Nioh 2 have definitely hit the mark to enhance the expertise for brand spanking new and returning gamers. So, even and not using a new combat coming with the latest patch, there may be nonetheless loads for gamers to be excited for between bug fixes, the Dragon Ninja pores and skin, and a few new graphical options coming to RTX powered PCs.

Nioh 2 is obtainable now for PC, PS4, and PS5.

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