NIOH 2 YATSU NO KAMI PLUS
The Yatsu-no-Kami version, for instance, grants increased damage against poisoned enemies, plus at least three other bonuses. The real bonus is in the abilities they can roll. Soul Cores all come with an Attack and Defense stat, granting you a minor benefit to both. Resting at a Shrine instantly unlocks all carried Cores, and you can equip them directly from the unlock screen or through a menu at shrines. You can carry as many Soul Cores with you as you please during a mission but die and fail to recover your Spirit and Amrita and the Cores go with them. Your yokai shift and yokai abilities are relatively unconnected, meaning being Feral or Brute has no bearing on how costly a Soul Core is to equip or how effective it is to use. You'll need to swap Spirits mid-combat if you want to use the other set. Each Guardian Spirit, in turn, has an Attunement meter with a set number of slots that limit the kinds of combinations you can pull off.īecause Soul Cores are tied to a Guardian Spirit, you can only use up to three of them at a time. Additionally, you’ll gain access to a third Soul Core slot for each companion farther along in the main story, increasing your options to six powers.Įach Soul Core has an Attunement cost to equip. Though you'll only have one Guardian Spirit initially, you’ll quickly unlock the ability to equip two, letting you use up to four yokai abilities at a time. Once you have at least one Soul Core and have progressed past the first several missions, you are able to control what abilities you can equip.
Several bosses are part human, part supernatural monster, and they’ll drop a Mortal variant, which can be used at a shrine to improve yokai versions to a higher level. It's also worth pointing out that you will never receive one of these items from a human enemy or an enemy that is at least partly human.
As you progress in the campaign and side missions, you’ll face these enemies as mid-level fights.
Bosses always drop these items, though the boss yokai don't need to be end-of-level enemies.