8 Reasons You Should Play Nioh Instead Of For Honor

6. A Rewarding Single-Player Campaign

How For Honor's single player isn't getting more flak, I'll never know. I mean, not to outright hate on the thing, but let's call it for what it is: A glorified tutorial.

It's certainly a gorgeous-looking one, with a number of suitably epic showdowns happening atop cliffs, amidst torrential rainfall or whilst teetering on a breaking sheet of ice, but you can blow through the whole thing in around six hours, with many missions taking literally 10-15 minutes once you've got the basics down.

It's a series of "Go here, flick switch, fight guy/go here, activate two things, fight more guys". Yes, you get a boss character that'll attack you faster, but that's literally it. Sans the visuals, there's nothing to write home about.

As for Nioh, being its multiplayer is relegated to dynamic encounters, summons or invasions (when PvP gets added at a later date, anyway), the single player is the core appeal. Inspired by the real-world tale of William Adams, an Englishman who sailed to Japan and eventually became a samurai, Nioh's campaign is one of exploration across its demon-infested shores, before meeting a cast of OTT characters and enemies before bringing them all down, one mission at a time.

Depending on how much you fail, grind, practice or uncover every secret of the island, this could take you more than 70 hours - an immediate positive when contrasted to For Honor's effort, which you'll clock in one sitting.