The place To Discover William From Nioh

Over 60 hours into Rise of the Ronin and I nonetheless haven’t found every part that Staff Ninja’s newest open-world samurai journey sport 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 small print, together with the place and discover the “Blue-Eyed Samurai.”

On March 31, the PlayStation UK X/Twitter account revealed one thing I suspected was within the sport: William Adams, the protagonist of the primary Nioh and the primary non-Japanese samurai, is in Rise of the Ronin. Nicely, not precisely. Since Nioh takes place a whole bunch of years earlier than the occasions of Rise of the Ronin, he’s referred to as the “Blue-Eyed Samurai” right here, harking back to the wonderful Netflix anime with the very comparable title. Anyway, William—I imply, the Blue-Eyed Samurai—performs a small position right here, a mere sub-boss encounter as a part of the open-world pictures actions, however crossing swords with him could be very a lot well worth the effort.

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

The remainder of the way in which is blocked by a poorly constructed wood barricade, which you’ll destroy by blowing up the hearth barrel simply in entrance with both a bomb or a gun. When you’re inside, take the one left on the finish of the quick, slim pathway, and William—dammit, the Blue-Eyed Samurai—will probably be standing there, simply ready so that you can strive him. And check out him it’s essential to, 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, however it’s not a very tough combat, particularly if you happen to’ve performed Nioh. His moveset is an identical to the usual assault sample you see when wielding a katana in Staff Ninja’s 2017 Japan-set Soulslike, in order that familiarity ought to make the combat simpler to handle. Anyway, go forward and lay him out.

After the combat, 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 model. 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 model sorts that the myriad fight kinds in Rise of the Ronin fall underneath: Ten, Chi, Jin, and Shinobi. Every of those 4 is robust in opposition to sure weapon sorts and weak in opposition to others, however Jin is probably the most well-rounded fight model 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 model, which implies, since most enemies in Rise of the Ronin use both katanas or sabers, you’ll primarily at all times do extra injury. Certain, 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 will possibly nonetheless lower via even the heaviest of weaponry, comparable to golf equipment and odachi.

I like little particulars like this, non-obligatory aims that join a studio’s video games collectively in fascinating and fully missable methods if you happen to don’t know the place to look. The good factor about Rise of the Ronin is that if you happen to occur to overlook something within the sport, there’s a function that allows you to replay complete areas and full missions for completely completely different outcomes. So, if you happen to needed to see what would occur if you happen to saved an anti-Shogunate official as a substitute of killing them, you would bend time to see what occurs. Sadly, when you murk the Blue-Eyed Samurai, he’s useless for good.