Mysterious samurai/sasaki kojiro

[Daketey]

So i recently beat the game, main+dlc and never encountered any boss named 'Mysterious samurai' (heard many people mentioning him so knew about it) so i searched for the fight and I fought the same boss but with his actual name instead of mysterious samurai. Was this changed? Or its something triggered by some choice

[Zamus]

There is a boss just named mysterious samurai, Sasaki kojiro is an entirely different boss, who isn't even a boss he is a sub-boss.

For reference the mysterious samurai wears a straw hat and uses spear as his weapons, plus is one of the LW humans.

[Witcher]

So where do you find the mysterious samarui with straw hat - which sub-mission, region or Abyss floor?

[Deostades]

DLC 3 - Raid on Hirano River

[Witcher]

Pretty sure I have completed that mission except don't remember fighting a guy wearing straw hat.

Might revisit to fam some of my gear same time ... thanks.

Edit: After watching a video, I remember this guy and I even visited a host to help out except thought he was Sanada or Honda in disguise ;P

[Zamus]

Messaggio originale di Witcher:

Edit: After watching a video, I remember this guy and I even visited a host to help out except thought he was Sanada or Honda in disguise ;P

He is Shima Sakon, hardly an spoiler though, he uses his armor and you see him twice on cut escenes with that hat.

[Witcher]

Ah yes, now I remember. So he retired to become a farmer after Ishida's death?

[Deostades]

That's also a bit of folklore in Japan, along with Mitsuhide becoming a monk/mystic.

Nioh is just a treat for anyone that knows their Japanese myths.

Edit: both of these myths came about because of the mysterious circumstances of both of their deaths. Shima Sakon's head was never claimed by anyone after Sekigahara, so while he almost certainly did die there, without anyone confirming it he became something of a legend.

Mitsuhide, on the other hand, we're pretty sure Hideyoshi killed within days of Nobunaga's own death, but there were a _lot_ of things happening right then, and a _lot_ of the full picture has been lost.

[Witcher]

I never saw a cutscene of Shima's death, but saw one where Ishida was beheaded towards the end.

[Elitewrecker PT]

He's talking about the real references.

[Deostades]

That's what I love about Nioh. Pretty much every human npc represents an actual person in history, with rare exceptions that are instead mythical figures (Fuku - though she might have been a real person) or expies representing individuals we don't have much information on (Okatsu (no real records of her for much past her mother's death), Maria (who is a stand in for the Spanish envoys that the historical William was sent by the English crown to discredit), Tome (Her grandpa, Masamune, is from the Masamune line of swordsmiths))