Played for about an hour. Been a long time since I played a Nioh title, and struggling using the face buttons for attack. I remember in the first Nioh trying to customize the controls to put attack as the R1/R2 buttons, but it fucked up options for the ki counter and ended up having to switch back.
I do like the streamlined stances with samurai and ninja stances, instead of low/med/high stances. Those always felt like the move sets were to big and struggled with some of the later skills that swapped stances.
Can't wait for the weekend to sink some more time into it.