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Sony Interactive Entertainment PS4 February 2017
A blond Western samurai travels across a dark-fantasy version of Japan’s Sengoku period to defeat supernatural creatures. That’s “Nioh” in a nutshell. Despite the nonsensical setting, the story is based in part on the life of William Adams, a real-life Western samurai from the 1600s and also on an unfinished script by legendary Japanese director