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It's the 16th century. A western seafarer finds himself in Japan and is met by war and demons on his quest of search and find. Will his path do the unfinished Kurosawa script justice?It's the 16th century. A western seafarer finds himself in Japan and is met by war and demons on his quest of search and find. Will his path do the unfinished Kurosawa script justice?It's the 16th century. A western seafarer finds himself in Japan and is met by war and demons on his quest of search and find. Will his path do the unfinished Kurosawa script justice?
Ben Peel
- William Adams
- (voice)
Tesshô Genda
- Tadakatsu Honda
- (voice)
Keiji Fujiwara
- Sakon Shima
- (voice)
Takayuki Sugô
- Tenkai
- (voice)
Shigeru Chiba
- Hisahide Matsunaga
- (voice)
- (as Shigeru Ito)
Shizuka Itou
- Ginchiyo Tachibana
- (voice)
- (as Shizuka Itô)
Jun Fukuyama
- Naomasa Ii
- (voice)
Yôsuke Akimoto
- Mototada Torii
- (voice)
Yôhei Tadano
- Kanbei Kuroda
- (voice)
- …
Yasuyuki Kase
- Magoichi Suzuki
- (voice)
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- TriviaNioh was first announced by original developer Koei in 2004 under its working title "Oni". In addition to the game, which was slated for a 2006 release, a feature film directed by Kurosawa's son Hisao Kurosawa would be produced alongside and inspire the game: the entire project's budget was estimated as being three billion yen. The movie tie-in was eventually cancelled in 2005 due to unspecified production problems, with the game becoming a standalone project. Nioh was first shown off in a trailer at the 2005 Electronic Entertainment Expo, where it was announced as a PlayStation 3 exclusive. At the time, the title was romanized as "Ni-Oh". Initially slated for a 2006 release, Nioh missed its announced release date, and no update on the game was issued until 2009, when Koei Tecmo stated that the title was still in development. Similar updates would be issued over the following six years. The game, now retitled slightly as Nioh, was reintroduced at the 2015 Tokyo Game Show as a PlayStation 4 exclusive, with a scheduled launch in Japan in 2016.It was later announced for an international release at the PlayStation Experience event in December of that year, also in 2016.
- GoofsGuns of the era did not fire rounds that could be seen with the naked eye.
- ConnectionsFeatured in Previously Recorded: Nioh (2017)
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Immaculately magical Japanese art, Kurosawa would be proud
I must admit that after Dark Souls, I wasn't able to adjust to playing this game for a while, and after beating first 3-4 bosses, I quit. Only months later I decided to revisit Nioh and realized I was very unfair not to give this game a chance, because it's easily the best of 2017, one of the best games ever made, an absolute must- have. A game you certainly need to get used to enjoy, therefore take my advice and don't be fooled by the beginning. Consider completing all the submissions before the main ones, since it will give you plenty of cool weapons and armor, and most importantly amrita (the analogue of souls here). Just like in Dark Souls it's important that you are as agile as possible, so make sure you improve the relevant stats. In fact try to level up as much as you can. Speaking of which, although Nioh was inspired by and is the reminiscent of great Dark Souls, it is very different, including the level up system. The combat is amazing once you figure it out. The setting is pure Japanese, it's beautiful but some may need to adapt to the atmosphere, so you might want to see Ran or other Kurosawa masterpieces before playing Nioh, after all it's based on master's unfinished script. Does it live up to the hype? Oh yes. I think Kurosawa would be proud. It's now one of my top favorites that I will be frequently revisiting and goes directly to my 'Japan rocks' list. The bosses are tough and pretty hard. Just how stupid I was to quit playing Nioh back then! I'm really ashamed I thought bad of this game before. And this is where I will address the creators of Nioh "Dear Nioh Team, if you come across any of my negative feedback that I haven't been able to track back and delete, please forgive my foolishness, you have done a miraculous job. Playing Nioh, I feel so happy I'm studying Japanese now, soon I will be able to play it with English subtitles off. Also I would love to say huge special thanks to Yûgo Kanno, the brilliant composer of this wonderful game, the Ogress boss fight theme is one of the most touching and emotional pieces I have ever heard, I have been listening to it for 2 days now and am listening to it as I'm typing this review. God bless you, guys and God bless Japan!"
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- Jul 13, 2017
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