Look at this cool armor I found!

[Lavian]

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3444731349

It's a nice callback to Team Ninja, the famed Japanese developer's, previous games.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3250576370

[Zhanzara]

Not really ^^ Yasuke is a historical person. There is still no proof he really existed, but there are at least a ton of legends around him. So no. He is not a samurai out of Team Ninjas story telling ^^
If you wanna see it as an easter egg, maybe it is a blink to Assassins Creed Shadows. But I still think it is just historical.

[Lavian]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Zhanzara:

Yasuke is a historical person.

I know.

If you wanna see it as an easter egg, maybe it is a blink to Assassins Creed Shadows. But I still think it is just historical.

Nioh is way older than Assassin's Creed Shadows, and Rise of the Ronin came out a year ago on PS5.

[Valant]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Zhanzara:

Not really ^^ Yasuke is a historical person. There is still no proof he really existed, but there are at least a ton of legends around him. So no. He is not a samurai out of Team Ninjas story telling ^^
If you wanna see it as an easter egg, maybe it is a blink to Assassins Creed Shadows. But I still think it is just historical.

Yasuke was made a samurai in Nioh to serve as a foil to William, the main character who is also a foreigner and who also becomes a samurai when he finds his purpose, just like how Yasuke did.

That armour in Ronin is what he wore in Nioh, evident on the 2nd image.

[someoneproud]

There's lots of little callbacks to past games, I'm not keen on the shabby leg pieces on Yasuke's armour and it doesn't really fit the setting but it's nice enough.

I always liked how TN merged historical and fantasy elements in Nioh.

[Lavian]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von someoneproud:

There's lots of little callbacks to past games, I'm not keen on the shabby leg pieces on Yasuke's armour and it doesn't really fit the setting but it's nice enough.

I always liked how TN merged historical and fantasy elements in Nioh.

Rise of the Ronin is like, 300 years after Nioh, so I think we can forgive a little wear and tear on the armor.

[Lavian]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Valant:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Zhanzara:

Not really ^^ Yasuke is a historical person. There is still no proof he really existed, but there are at least a ton of legends around him. So no. He is not a samurai out of Team Ninjas story telling ^^
If you wanna see it as an easter egg, maybe it is a blink to Assassins Creed Shadows. But I still think it is just historical.

Yasuke was made a samurai in Nioh to serve as a foil to William, the main character who is also a foreigner and who also becomes a samurai when he finds his purpose, just like how Yasuke did.

That armour in Ronin is what he wore in Nioh, evident on the 2nd image.

Meanwhile, in Samurai Warriors 5, which doesn't have William Adams:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3262953024

And before someone says something about the exact wording in the profile, here's Mitsuhide for comparison:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3262953037

[Inspecteur-N7]

Nice armor from Nioh indeed !
The set is for the combat i guess ?

[Lavian]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Inspecteur-N7:

Nice armor from Nioh indeed !
The set is for the combat i guess ?

It's from defeating the "Blue-Eyed Samurai" secret boss found in a cave in Edo, which is where you normally also unlock the Nioh-ryū combat style

[someoneproud]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Lavian:

Rise of the Ronin is like, 300 years after Nioh, so I think we can forgive a little wear and tear on the armor.

In spirit: sure. In practice: I ain't wearing that.

[Lavian]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von someoneproud:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Lavian:

Rise of the Ronin is like, 300 years after Nioh, so I think we can forgive a little wear and tear on the armor.

In spirit: sure. In practice: I ain't wearing that.

Neither am I, really. Normally I wear kimono with riding hakama. May or may not switch to the little tengu battle attire for my top once I get it, but that's going to take a while.

Armor is kind of stylish with outwear over it, but you can't do that with Yasuke's armor (or heirloom armor). That said, wearing armor 24/7 while wandering the countryside seems impractical (though, so is carry around a polearm weapon everywhere), though I guess maybe you'd get used to it.

[Toonen1988]

It doesn't look like a bad armor, I would probarly also unlock it but i'm more wearing Kimonos. I'm trying to find the Big Boss kimono, but I can't find anywhere any information how to unlock it.

[IchigoMait]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Zhanzara:

Not really ^^ Yasuke is a historical person. There is still no proof he really existed, but there are at least a ton of legends around him. So no. He is not a samurai out of Team Ninjas story telling ^^
If you wanna see it as an easter egg, maybe it is a blink to Assassins Creed Shadows. But I still think it is just historical.

The person was real, an african slave sold to Oda Nobunaga at some point, he was a comedic joke for them and maybe for a little while the first black samurai without a surname (probably died or was demoted and nobody cared to give any more historic records about him as he didn't exist anymore).

Remember the AC Shadows problem using the Yasuke African samurai as a piece of history fact.

There is one japanese person who confirms it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/1c2sn02/yasuke_and_how_thomas_lockleys_novel_is_revising/

But the problematic part is that Thomas Lockley made up too much stuff about that person.
https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/1c2sn02/yasuke_and_how_thomas_lockleys_novel_is_revising/

So we have to shift(ingore) through data anything after the year when Lockley started publishing his books and editing wikipedia info about Yasuke or Oda Nobunaga info.

[PvWolf666]

I'm more of a Ninja person. Armour is too unwieldy.

[nightingale2k1]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYcK1LQl_Fs

netflix also has the series about Yasuke from 2021.

[Valant]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von IchigoMait:

Ursprünglich geschrieben von Zhanzara:

Not really ^^ Yasuke is a historical person. There is still no proof he really existed, but there are at least a ton of legends around him. So no. He is not a samurai out of Team Ninjas story telling ^^
If you wanna see it as an easter egg, maybe it is a blink to Assassins Creed Shadows. But I still think it is just historical.

The person was real, an african slave sold to Oda Nobunaga at some point, he was a comedic joke for them and maybe for a little while the first black samurai without a surname (probably died or was demoted and nobody cared to give any more historic records about him as he didn't exist anymore).

Remember the AC Shadows problem using the Yasuke African samurai as a piece of history fact.

There is one japanese person who confirms it.
https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/1c2sn02/yasuke_and_how_thomas_lockleys_novel_is_revising/

But the problematic part is that Thomas Lockley made up too much stuff about that person.
https://www.reddit.com/r/KotakuInAction/comments/1c2sn02/yasuke_and_how_thomas_lockleys_novel_is_revising/

So we have to shift(ingore) through data anything after the year when Lockley started publishing his books and editing wikipedia info about Yasuke or Oda Nobunaga info.

It's impossible for him to become a samurai with the amount of time he was in the country for.

If he was a samurai, he would have been executed as an honourable death.