Nioh interview: Yosuke Hayashi on how Samurai finally arrived on the PlayStation 4

Samurai don't tend to be something you be, but something you see. And that's best done from afar, given the amount of blood and guts that they have spilled in popular culture. But with the release of Nioh, the new but long-awaited action game for PlayStation 4, that's about to change. The game puts you right in the middle of the life of a samurai – with all the mystery, training and beautiful violence that you'd expect. That's done largely through the main character, based on William Adams, an Englishman who was one of the first ever from his country to reach Japan and the first known western Samurai.