Let's Play Nioh Part 35 - The Trial of the Master
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Game Description:
Ready your blade - grueling encounters await around every corner in this action RPG in a vast land ravaged by civil war.
To triumph you'll need patience, to learn where each foe - human or demon - is strong, and when to strike at their weaknesses.
Embrace every defeat as a step along the path to victory. Only in death will you find the way of the samurai.
Wiki:
Nioh (Japanese: ?? Hepburn: Nio?, lit. "benevolent king", usually referring to Nio) is an action role-playing game developed by Team Ninja for the PlayStation 4. It will be released worldwide in February 2017, and will be published by Koei Tecmo in Japan and Sony Interactive Entertainment internationally. Gameplay revolves around navigating levels and defeating monsters that have infested an area. Nioh takes place in the early 1600s during a fictionalized version of the Sengoku period, when Japan was in the midst of civil war prior to the ascension of the Tokugawa shogunate. A sailor named William, in pursuit of an enemy, arrives in Japan and is enlisted by Hattori Hanzo, servant to Tokugawa Ieyasu, in defeating yokai that are flourishing in the chaos of war.
Beginning development in 2004 as a multimedia project based on an unfinished Akira Kurosawa script, it went through multiple revisions over the following eight years as producer Kou Shibusawa was dissatisfied with the result. Team Ninja were given the project, and the subsequent development lasted four years. The story was based on the life of historic Western samurai William Adams, although it was embellished with supernatural elements. First announced in the year it began development, information became sporadic until 2015, when it was reintroduced as a PlayStation 4 exclusive. Alpha and beta demos were released during 2016, to both gauge public reaction to the title and make adjustments based on feedback. Initially scheduled for a 2016 release, the adjustments pushed the release into the following year.
Nioh is set in 1600 within a fictionalised dark fantasy version of the late Sengoku period, a time when the clans of Japan were at war prior to the unification under the Tokugawa shogunate and the beginning of the Edo period. Amidst the fighting and high death toll, yokai have appeared and begun wreaking havoc across the land: major yokai threats that appear in the game include Hinoenma, Jorogumo, and a Yuki-onna born from the spirit of the wife of Oda Nobunaga following the Honno-ji incident.
The game's main protagonist is William (Ben Peel), a blonde-haired Westerner who arrives in Japan in pursuit of an enemy. While there, he crosses paths with Tokugawa Ieyasu (Masachika Ichimura) and his ninja servant Hattori Hanzo (Toshiyuki Morikawa), forming an alliance against both William's enemy and the yokai infesting Japan. William is trained in combat by Yagyu Munetoshi, Hozoin In'ei and Marume Nagayoshi. The main antagonist is Edward Kelley (Hiroyuki Kinoshita/Nicholas Boulton), a Westerner driving the conflict using his dark academical abilities.
William also crosses paths with numerous historical figures from the period: these include Ieyasu's allies Ii Naomasa (Jun Fukuyama) and Honda Tadakatsu (Tessho Genda); daimyo Kuroda Yoshitaka (Yohei Tadano) and his son Kuroda Nagamasa (Hiroshi Tsuchida); Ieyasu's main rival Ishida Mitsunari (Takahiro Sakurai) and his allies Shima Sakon (Keiji Fujiwara) and Otani Yoshitsugu (Kenyuu Horiuchi); Tachibana Ginchiyo (Shizuka Ito), head of the Tachibana clan, and her husband Muneshige (Eiji Hanawa); hostile mercenary Suzuki Magoichi (Yasuyuki Kase); Yasuke (Richie Campbell), a former favored vassal of Nobunaga; and Tenkai (Takayuki Sugo), a monk of the Tiantai Buddhist sect and master manipulator of yin and yang magic. Original characters include Okatsu (Emi Takei), a female ninja in Hanzo's clan who holds a dislike for William; and Fu (Risa Shimizu), Tenkai's disciple.