Over 60 hours Rise of the Ronin and I still haven’t discovered everything Team Ninja’s latest open-world samurai adventure game has to offer. And now, aside from all the cats to collect and refugees to kill, there’s another mystery tied to it Nioh that I just came across it. That’s right: William Adams, the protagonist of Niohlurks within Rise of the Ronin. Here are the details, including where and how to find the “Blue-Eyed Samurai.”
On March 31st, the PlayStation UK revealed the first Nioh and the first non-Japanese samurai, is here Rise of the Ronin. Well, not quite. Since Nioh takes place hundreds of years before the events of Rise of the RoninHe is called here in reference to the “Blue-Eyed Samurai”. the excellent Netflix anime with the very similar name. Anyway, William – I mean, the Blue-Eyed Samurai – plays a small role here, a purely underboss encounter as part of the open-world photography activities, but it’s well worth the effort to cross swords with him.
You can find him in Shiba Prefecture in Edo, the second largest city in Rise of the Ronin. If you open your minimap and head towards Shiba Bay, you will notice a photo objective called “Shiba Bay View”. You don’t have to complete this activity, but taking a quick photo of the shore will earn you silver coins that you can use to purchase additional intelligence points. Just to the left of where you would take the picture is a small alcove with a dimly lit fire illuminating the entrance. Stroll in there.
The rest of the path is blocked by a poorly constructed wooden barricade, which you can destroy by blowing up the fire barrel directly in front of it with a bomb or a weapon. Once you’re inside, take the only left at the end of the short, narrow path, and William – blue-eyed samurai be damned – will be standing there, just waiting for you to try him out. And be sure to give it a try, because this isn’t one of those encounters where there’s a bit of dialogue before the blades inevitably get soaked in blood. He becomes aggressive once he spots you, but it’s not a particularly difficult fight, especially if you’ve been playing Nioh. His moveset is identical to the standard attack pattern you see when wielding a katana in Team Ninja’s 2017 Japan set Soulslike, so the familiarity should make the fight easier to handle. Anyway, go ahead and flaunt it.
After the battle you will receive some nice rewards. The first is a suit of armor centered around Yasuke, the first black samurai whose name is the title another excellent Netflix anime. Then there’s the real prize: the Nioh-Ryu fighting style. It is the same sword technique as that of the Blue-Eyed Samurai NiohIt’s William Adams, use it and it’s great. You see, there are four overarching fighting style types that encompass the countless fighting styles Rise of the Ronin fall under: Ten, Chi, Jin and Shinobi. Each of these four is strong against certain types of weapons and weak against others, but Jin is the most versatile fighting style of the group, being effective against sabers and other light weapons. The Nioh-ryu is a Jin-based fighting style, meaning that most enemies in Rise of the Ronin Use either katanas or sabers, you’ll basically do more and more damage. Certainly there are a handful of enemies that use other fighting styles that can effectively counter a Jin-based one, but even then, since Jin is a jack of all trades, he can penetrate even the heaviest of weapons. like clubs and odachi.
I love little details like that, optional objectives that tie a studio’s games together in interesting and completely overlooked ways if you don’t know where to look. The beauty of it Rise of the Ronin If you miss something in the game, there is a feature that allows you to replay entire areas and entire missions to get completely different results. So if you want to see what would happen if you saved an anti-shogunate official instead of killing him, you could take the time to see what happens. Unfortunately, once you fog up the Blue-Eyed Samurai, he’s dead forever.
