Nioh director Fumihiko Yasuda on difficulty, player feedback and what's changing

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Team Ninja and Koei Tecmo's samurai action game Nioh has had quite the development history. Announced at E3 in 2005 and finally coming to PS4 early in February, the historical fantasy title has changed hands several times with multiple developers re-jigging it into all sort of different beasts.
In its final iteration Team Ninja (of Ninja Gaiden fame) is at the helm and based on its public beta a few weeks back, it's shaping up to be one of the best action games in years.
To gain further insight into how Nioh's adapted over the years, what it's morphing into, and how Team Ninja incorporates fan-feedback while still retaining its creative vision, we spoke to Nioh's creative director Fumihiko Yasuda at Tokyo Game Show. That conversation, conducted via translator, went a little something like this:
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