{"id":1647039,"date":"2026-07-28T11:20:54","date_gmt":"2026-07-28T11:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/HYj2454Xz2kgWZNdD4ELe6"},"modified":"2026-07-28T11:20:54","modified_gmt":"2026-07-28T11:20:54","slug":"nioh-3s-first-dlc-hits-in-august-brings-new-weapons-a-trip-to-the-sort-of-future-and-theres-a-mega-hard-difficulty-mode-for-the-sickos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/nioh-3s-first-dlc-hits-in-august-brings-new-weapons-a-trip-to-the-sort-of-future-and-theres-a-mega-hard-difficulty-mode-for-the-sickos\/","title":{"rendered":"Nioh 3’s first DLC hits in August, brings new weapons, a trip to the (sort of) future, and there’s a mega-hard difficulty mode for the sickos"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I will be truthful: if you grabbed me by the lapels and demanded I tell you when Nioh 3<\/a> came out, I would answer something along the lines of ‘the late 1980s’. The fact that the third Nioh\u2014a rather good game, per our 90% Nioh 3 review<\/a>\u2014only released in February of this year feels like a weft in the tapestry of space-time.<\/p>\n

But so it was, and so it is that Nioh 3 will, on August 19, get its first DLC in the form of Hell Rising<\/a>: “Our protagonist and appointed shogun, Takechiyo, journeys through time and is led to Edo in the future by an unknown yokai he met in his dreams,” goes the blurb.<\/p>\n

“Edo in the future” is the year 1651, by the by. Things aren’t looking great. “The large castle town that was once proof of the shogunate\u2019s authority has transformed into a hellish wasteland plagued by the gales of the Crucible,” rumbles the DLC description. <\/p>\n

“Yokai, human rebels, and alchemists from foreign lands have descended on Edo, creating a battlefield fraught with chaos.” I knew a guy in uni who called himself an alchemist from foreign lands, but he was just a Latvian guy who sold cannabis.<\/p>\n

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