Why are there ghost-like enemies in mibu village in my playthrough?

[THE HOG-CRANKER]

I'm done with mibu village, and I've noticed that there are a few ghost-type enemies all over the place. For example, on that narrow bridge shortly before the main boss of the area, there is the ghost-enemy of a sword fighter you would have encountered in upper ashina castle.

I'm also watching a streamer play this game, and he doesn't have any of these enemies in the area. Why?

[Lod101]

it has to do with the order you get the other items.(mortal blade, flower, stone)

[THE HOG-CRANKER]

Originally posted by Lod101:

it has to do with the order you get the other items.(mortal blade, flower, stone)

ah ok - I've done the mibu village basically last, so I'm assuming the area got more difficult because of that? Makes sense, but I didn't know this was a feature in the game

[HypetheKomodo]

If you get the Mortal Blade first and then go to the Village, you get an extra boss and those enemies.

I'm unsure of the reason why this happens.

[THE HOG-CRANKER]

Originally posted by Flustered:

If you get the Mortal Blade first and then go to the Village, you get an extra boss and those enemies.

I'm unsure of the reason why this happens.

...what's the extra boss? I've gone through all of mibu village and the only main boss i've encountered is the corrupted monk (the crying ghost lady before the narrow bridge counts as a miniboss right? besides, the streamer i'm watching does not have the mortal blade but fought against her too)

[HypetheKomodo]

Originally posted by hasi:

Originally posted by Flustered:

If you get the Mortal Blade first and then go to the Village, you get an extra boss and those enemies.

I'm unsure of the reason why this happens.

...what's the extra boss? I've gone through all of mibu village and the only main boss i've encountered is the corrupted monk (the crying ghost lady before the narrow bridge counts as a miniboss right? besides, the streamer i'm watching does not have the mortal blade but fought against her too)

Think the boss reappears later, but after you clear a certain area, re-visit the poison pool area. You may recall a very large room on your way to the village.

[Lod101]

Originally posted by Flustered:

If you get the Mortal Blade first and then go to the Village, you get an extra boss and those enemies.

I'm unsure of the reason why this happens.

if you mean the ape:
that boss comes from the flower not the blade

[Nigawatts]

They appear after your first major item (so Flower/Stone/Blade).

I actually get freaked out in NG+ cuz I'm not expecting them. If you do the Forest last Nightjar Ghosts show up for instance. I've seen the Samurai Ghost on the bridge before, but not the Nightjar and I died cuz I freaked out and jumped to my death.

[THE HOG-CRANKER]

Originally posted by Nigawatts:

They appear after your first major item (so Flower/Stone/Blade).

I actually get freaked out in NG+ cuz I'm not expecting them. If you do the Forest last Nightjar Ghosts show up for instance. I've seen the Samurai Ghost on the bridge before, but not the Nightjar and I died cuz I freaked out and jumped to my death.

i found the nightjar ghosts to be the worst because they show up RIGHT after the boss fight with the two apes to ambush you, and they show up at a lot of other places too

[Phishfood]

After beating the 2 of the 3 bosses after genichiro the ghost enemies start to appear in all of those 3 areas.

I think I saw in the loading screen it said something about twilight is when the spirits come out so I think when you beat 2 bosses it means time has progressed to midnight and you get the ghosties

[Tarnished]

Ghosts appear at night. Game loading screens say it.