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NIOH FAST FACTS! | The First Western Samurai | Octopimp | LORE

Octopimp tells you the true origins of William Adams, the history behind the Nioh guardians, and how a Kurosawa script served as the foundation for the game!
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Though slightly exaggerated, Nioh's protagonist, William is based on a real sailor from the 1600s. Though he didn't fight mythical monsters, he was one of only a handful of survivors from a five ship expedition for the Dutch East India Company and became the first Western Samurai and an advisor to the Shogun.

Nioh began as a pet project when Koei founder Kou Shibusawa wanted to make an RPG adaptation of "Oni", the unfinished screenplay by legendary Japanese filmmaker, Akira Kurosawa. The game to be preceded by a feature film directed by Akira Kurosawa's son, Hisao Kurosawa, though the film was cancelled a year later and the game bounced around before Team Ninja was brought on board.

Noted to be notoriously difficult even before its release, Nioh director Fumihiko Yasuda explained they balanced the game at the testing phase. If the game tester could beat a boss without any armor, the boss fight was considered fair.

Believing that difficulty levels leave gamers with different feelings about a game, Team Ninja decided to develop Nioh with only one difficulty setting. If players want the most challenging gaming experience available, Nioh includes punishing side missions and quests designed with gaming masochists in mind.

In Buddhism, Nioh are the two wrathful guardians that watch over Buddhist temples. The two represent birth and death, and according Japanese tradition, they protected Buddha during his travels throughout India. Our video game hero William, on the other hand, is regarded as Nioh solely for his reputation as a demon-slayer.

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