Talk:Katana Engine
Nioh game engine
[edit ]An IP user added Nioh and Nioh 2 as using Katana engine. But there isn't a good source for this. Personally I think steamdb is reliable in general but you have to keep in mind that Katana engine started out as more as a library used in other game engines (Koei Tecmo Game Library). So even if Nioh 1 was using KTGL/Katana Engine it still might not actually be made in Katana Engine. The vg infobox says to "not list common middleware engines such as Havok, SpeedTree or Euphoria." I would add that we should not list middleware in general, especially in this case where it can be confused for the version that is not middleware.
The only allowed video game news site that mentions the Nioh engine says this:
>Team Ninja games look roughly similar to one another. Character models have similarities in graphical appearance since the studio is using the same graphics engine first utilized in Ninja Gaiden 3. This one was then used in Dead or Alive 5 and carried on with a few refinements in Nioh and Wo-long respectively. ([1])
This is a strange statement as Wo-long and Rise of Ronin definitely do use Katana Engine while Ninja Gaiden 3 was released in 2012 and almost certainly did not use Katana Engine (except perhaps as a library). Dead or Alive 5 uses the Yawaraka Engine, which is explicitly different from Katana Engine since that is the engine Venus Vacation switched from to Katana Engine. So this statement is incorrect unless Yawaraka Engine and Katana Engine share a lot of the codebase and can then be considered either the same or different depending on how you look at it, but this seems unlikely. J2UDY7r00CRjH (talk) 15:45, 15 January 2025 (UTC) [reply ]