Sengoku Basara 2 HD - Nohime | Story Mode

Next up is Noh, who I was very surprised to have enjoyed playing as much as I did. She still has an absurdly useful S-string from SB1 and her Basara is solid. She has a bunch of fun specials, like a launching attack that can lead into rifle blasts or dual pistol spam by mashing Square immediately after launching. You juggle the enemy like in DMC if you do this, which is great. Noh has a sweeping kick that can knock enemies away and give her some distance and she also has a multi-hit melee combo that gives her close range options if you just decide you want to beat the enemy up personally. She can pull out a gatling gun too, which can juggle enemies, but the damage output is too low to use over her regular S-string.

But by far my favorite part about her is that you can charge her shots by holding Square, which upgrades her S-string temporarily to shoot stronger, wider bullets that travel farther. The best part about this is that, like in DMC, she can charge her shot during ANY other action. This means the only limitation on when she can charge her pistols is by your capability to hold Square as you perform other actions like her Basara and specials. It should be noted however that Noh is very fragile, so you can die fast when playing as her, but it's very easy to control the enemy's distance when playing as her anyways.

Also props to SB2 for giving Noh a story that isn't just following Nobunaga around the whole time. Indeed, her story takes place right after Honnoji happened and it's a revenge quest against Mitsuhide.

1st stage is taking down Itsuki, nothing new here. Itsuki may be the only playable character that doesn't get a second stage to fight her on.

2nd stage is Kenshin's regular battle.

3rd stage is the battle against the Takeda we did as Tadakatsu in the last video. I had a much easier time this go around since I took it seriously and Noh is a pretty damn good character so she can handle it.

4th stage is one we haven't seen in a long time, the one where we fight the entire Maeda family and lure them out one by one.

5th and final stage is against Mitsuhide, where I just rush him since it's the final stage so EXP doesn't matter anymore. It's a very lackluster final boss when he's at half HP though.

It took 17 story modes before we finally had an instance where we didn't see any new stages. I'd like to reiterate once more how impressive the stage variety is in this game. It made it a lot more enjoyable to play through to have so few instances of repeated stages compared to say DW5 where half the fucking cast has a battle at Chang Ban or something.