The place To Discover William From Nioh

Over 60 hours into Rise of the Ronin and I nonetheless haven’t found every thing that Crew Ninja’s newest open-world samurai journey recreation has to supply. And now, exterior of all of the cats to gather and fugitives to kill, there’s one other secret related to Nioh that I solely simply got here throughout. That’s proper: William Adams, the protagonist of Nioh, is lurking in Rise of the Ronin. Listed below are the main points, together with the place and how you can discover the “Blue-Eyed Samurai.”

On March 31, the PlayStation UK X/Twitter account revealed one thing I suspected was within the recreation: William Adams, the protagonist of the primary Nioh and the primary non-Japanese samurai, is in Rise of the Ronin. Properly, not precisely. Since Nioh takes place lots of of years earlier than the occasions of Rise of the Ronin, he’s known as the “Blue-Eyed Samurai” right here, paying homage to the superb Netflix anime with the very related title. Anyway, William—I imply, the Blue-Eyed Samurai—performs a small function right here, a mere sub-boss encounter as a part of the open-world images actions, however crossing swords with him could be very a lot definitely worth the effort.

You’ll find him within the Shiba Prefecture in Edo, which is the second main metropolis in Rise of the Ronin. Should you pop open your mini-map and head towards Shiba’s bay, you’ll discover a photograph goal known as “View of the Bay at Shiba.” You don’t have to finish this exercise, however snapping a fast pic of the waterfront provides you with silver cash to buy additional Mind ability factors. Simply left of the place you’d take the image is slightly alcove with a dimly lit hearth illuminating the doorway. Saunter in there.

The remainder of the best way is blocked by a poorly constructed picket barricade, which you’ll be able to destroy by blowing up the fireplace barrel simply in entrance with both a bomb or a gun. When you’re inside, take the one left on the finish of the brief, slim pathway, and William—dammit, the Blue-Eyed Samurai—will probably be standing there, simply ready so that you can attempt him. And take a look at him you should, as a result of this isn’t a type of encounters the place there’s a little bit of dialogue earlier than the blades get inevitably soaked in blood. He aggros the second he spots you, but it surely’s not a very troublesome struggle, particularly in case you’ve performed Nioh. His moveset is equivalent to the usual assault sample you see when wielding a katana in Crew Ninja’s 2017 Japan-set Soulslike, in order that familiarity ought to make the struggle simpler to handle. Anyway, go forward and lay him out.

After the struggle, you’ll earn some fairly candy rewards. The primary is a set of armor themed round Yasuke, the primary Black samurai whose title is the title of one other wonderful Netflix anime. Then there’s the actual prize, the Nioh-ryu fight type. It’s the identical sword method that the Blue-Eyed Samurai, and Nioh’s William Adams, use, and it’s nice. See, there are 4 overarching fight type varieties that the myriad fight kinds in Rise of the Ronin fall underneath: Ten, Chi, Jin, and Shinobi. Every of those 4 is powerful in opposition to sure weapon varieties and weak in opposition to others, however Jin is essentially the most well-rounded fight type of the bunch as a result of it’s efficient in opposition to sabers and different light-weight weapons. The Nioh-ryu is a Jin-based fight type, which suggests, since most enemies in Rise of the Ronin use both katanas or sabers, you’ll primarily at all times do extra harm. Positive, there are a handful of enemies that use different fight kinds which may successfully counter a Jin-based one, however even then, as a result of Jin is a jack-of-all-trades, it might probably nonetheless lower via even the heaviest of weaponry, corresponding to golf equipment and odachi.

I really like little particulars like this, elective goals that join a studio’s video games collectively in attention-grabbing and completely missable methods in case you don’t know the place to look. The good factor about Rise of the Ronin is that in case you occur to overlook something within the recreation, there’s a function that permits you to replay complete areas and whole missions for completely completely different outcomes. So, in case you needed to see what would occur in case you saved an anti-Shogunate official as an alternative of killing them, you may bend time to see what occurs. Sadly, when you murk the Blue-Eyed Samurai, he’s useless for good.