Let's Try Not to Die - Onmyo & Magic - The Iga Escape

Onmyoji Through The Iga Escape

Mission: The Iga Escape
Region: Tokai
Difficulty: Way of the Nioh

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0:25 : Mission Start
4:57 : Mansion
9:13 : Boss - Giant Toad

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We're going through the Iga Escape without dying or using quick-change scrolls. The Iga mansion is a doozy to navigate on your first playthrough, and while subsequent visits are easier and faster, its still pretty perilous. On Way of the Nioh, there are number of areas where new enemies are waiting around corners or perched on walls and ceilings waiting to get the jump on you, so regardless of whether you use magic or no, your focus and attentiveness will keep you alive more than anything else.

I had debated whether or not the giant toad should be done in a duel montage, but ultimately decided it would be better to show it as a one-off as the boss of this mission. Initially, my reasoning for having the giant toad as a duel candidate is due to the inconsistency for the confusion ailment to properly enforce a stagger on hit, that is, there are times where the game outright ignores the stagger-on-hit when giant toad is inflicted with confusion, sometimes prompting its AI to bug out and get stuck in an animation loop where he attempts to continuously spawn a yokai pool, which confusion prevents. Since this is likely an unintended behavior, I opted to rule out the buggy behavior and make a decision based on his usual attacking patterns, which are not overtly difficult or warrant any specific focus or strategy to overcome. While onmyoji cannot inflict confusion and go to town due to the bug, it still doesn't prevent the giant toad's other weaknesses to impede him, namely electrify and muddy ailments. Electrify is an especially powerful elemental ailment for a player to take advantage of since it acts similar to the sloth ailment, slowing down all movement and actions taken by victim. Thus, giant toad falls victim to onmyoji element shenanigans as do other yokai. Just be careful to time your onmyo item casts, especially if the toad is able to ready a tongue lashing or his hopping spear stab.

Earlier difficulties of Nioh don't usually provide much flexibility in terms of builds for William, so I'll be venturing into the later difficulties of Nioh in order to exemplify some of the potential viability for playing through the game with a focus on Onmyo magic and investing in the Magic stat.

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