William [Nioh Wiki]

 Reply
By Anonymous
-  Tue Oct 18, 2016 9:51 pm #15862160
Theres a butthurt yabk vandal going around everywhere falsifying that William is Irish. Be aware of him vandalising this page.
Hes immensely butthurt that the main char is of the best nationality in history
By Anonymous
-  Mon Oct 31, 2016 5:58 am #15868048
William speaks with a clear Irish accent in the trailer and the trailer is narrated in the Irish language. He's either Irish in the game or the Japanese are very confused.
By Anonymous
-  Thu Dec 08, 2016 10:24 am #15879352
Perhaps to elucidate this: The real-life William Adams was a pure-blooded Englishman. Nioh's version of William Adams is Irish-Japanese.
By Anonymous
-  Wed Jan 11, 2017 8:30 am #15887125
Except he speaks with an Irish accent in the game lol
By Anonymous
-  Thu Jan 19, 2017 4:14 pm #15889302
The character in game is clearly Irish. Irish accent, Irish named spirit and gaelige used in the trailer.
By Anonymous
-  Mon Jan 23, 2017 11:16 am #15890463
and whats this jive about "the best nationality in history" thats bull.
By Anonymous
-  Mon Jan 23, 2017 9:53 pm #15890667
So, basically, the voice actor is Irish (Ben Peel, born in Belfast according to Behind the Voice Actors), but the real life historical person was a bloke born in Kent (south-east England, rather far away from Ireland). So, for all intents and purposes 'Englishman' is correct because the character was born in England.
By Anonymous
-  Fri Jan 27, 2017 8:43 am #15891701
AiddonValentine (EN): Why did you decide to change William's ancestry from English to Irish?
We understand that the Irish have a culture of spirits and one of the premises behind William’s character is his ability to see yokai/ spiritual characters so that’s why we made him Irish

From: http://community.eu.playstation.com/t5/ ... p/24864763

So now you not only look like an *** for that tone, you look like a wrong ***
By Anonymous
-  Sun Jan 29, 2017 8:11 am #15892260
The more you know, I guess. I hadn't seen that interview at the time, so all I had to go off was the Wikipedia page compared to the Behind the Voice Actors thing (although, to be fair, I also didn't consider the possibility that they would change him to be Irish either). So, my bad.

Also, I know that tone of voice is impossible to convey through text, but that paragraph was never meant to 'sound' condescending or patronising at all.
By Anonymous
-  Wed Feb 01, 2017 4:46 pm #15893222
just surprised were already talking about nationality really
By Anonymous
-  Fri Jan 27, 2017 12:58 pm #15891766
"we decided not to have any custom character creation" big mistake, a good aspect of the souls games is your the star not some white hair male only character. Please add full custom character creation, with female option. Use lore to flesh out the world not a lead character.
By Anonymous
-  Fri Jan 27, 2017 8:08 pm #15891858
First. This isn't a souls game. Second it's nice to have an actual game that says here's the hero deal with it. I like customization as much as the next guy but sometimes it's not needed because to tell the story it needs to be done in a specific way.
By Anonymous
-  Wed Feb 01, 2017 4:37 pm #15893218
the thing is that in dark souls the purpose of character creation is that your looking for the story in the game but in nioh your been told of the story about the protagonist and hes adventure in become the first samurai western , whats the point of story telling if its not gonna target a expecific character that you play as? your not wrong but this game dosent have to be everything that dark souls
By Anonymous
-  Tue Feb 07, 2017 10:11 am #15894918
This game is NOT Dark Souls. Not every Souls-Like game that comes out has to follow the exact formula of Dark Souls as if it was some holy religious text. It's actually tasteless in my eyes. It's much more pleasant on the eyes to see a game that takes Dark Souls as an inspiration but with innovative and new ideas than a game that shamelessly tries to copy Soulsborne without adding anything new or worthwhile.
User avatar
By ReiterSplash
Posts Avatar
-  Thu Feb 16, 2017 1:56 pm #15898325
Who said that Nioh was a Soulsborne game? Sure, it has some aspects of it but it's not made by the same brand. William Adams is a real person, and Nioh is a more fantasized story of William Adams being the first western samurai, because obviously he didn't fight Yokai or have guardian spirits in the real world. "good aspect of the souls games is your the star" But we STILL control William, right? Doesn't that mean that we're still the "star" here? It's not like we're watching a movie.
By Anonymous
-  Thu Mar 02, 2017 3:26 am #15902223
It's not a souls game! The lore is based on actual historical figure who happened to be a white male.And fleshing out the lore with a main character works here. Somehow I get the feeling that if a protagonist was a female character you wouldn't be so butthurt. Hypocrite.Stop being a feminazi and just enjoy the goddamn game.
By Anonymous
-  Thu Mar 09, 2017 9:17 am #15904329
Well this aint souls, nygguh! Be grateful they even made another Dark Souls like game, because unless by some miracle, they aint making a kingsfield V (or Vi, counting japan.).
By Anonymous
-  Sat Apr 06, 2019 11:48 pm #16110541
Lets just agree to disagree that this is pretty much a Souls game since we're obviously talking on how the playstyle is set minus the odd tweaks here and there and it doesn't NEED to have customisable characters just so feminists can live out their fantasies of "we need more female protagonists and game developers are sexist pigs for making the star of the game a guy".
By Anonymous
-  Wed Feb 01, 2017 4:44 pm #15893221
I'm Excited and thrilled when this game is released , a story to be told to all of us , to be shared with and all of its gameplay , enemies , myths in the culture and atmosphere just makes it all the more worth it , I do not mind no character customization because it would ruin the story quiet a lot but I have high hopes for this as well as reading and getting a knowledge of all this yokais and daemons and this game is a great example of getting inspired by something but as well been its own game , lets all have fun till the end guys!!
By Anonymous
-  Sat Feb 04, 2017 6:14 pm #15894184
What an uninteresting looking protagonist, I hate Geralt from the witcher so making this guy a copy of that loser hurts this game in my eyes, I really wish there was a character creator.
By Anonymous
-  Fri Mar 03, 2017 11:34 am #15902598
About halfway through the areas you can change your character model
By Anonymous
-  Sun Aug 19, 2018 1:20 pm #16058867
Or just put a helmet on.
By Anonymous
-  Sat Apr 06, 2019 11:32 pm #16110533
Stop crying about the character and play the game you snowflake.
By Anonymous
-  Sat Feb 04, 2017 6:37 pm #15894188
Im thorwing a ninja mask on this boring guy and calling it a day.
By Anonymous
-  Sun Feb 05, 2017 11:20 am #15894383
Finally get a game based on this bad *** historical figure from my home town...and they make him Irish. Like come on we even have Japanese street names in Gillingham and a festival once a year to celebrate his life. Would it of been that hard just to make him English not Irish.
By Anonymous
-  Thu Feb 16, 2017 6:27 am #15898217
I'm Irish myself and I'm annoyed by this. They pulled this***** in the saboteur as well. If the person the character's based on is x nationality, just make them that nationality
By Anonymous
-  Thu Feb 16, 2017 1:53 pm #15898324
Are you really THAT triggered?
By Anonymous
-  Thu Mar 02, 2017 9:55 am #15902308
Irish trash
By Anonymous
-  Mon Dec 25, 2017 8:55 am #15996527
Because nobody want to play as english trash
By Anonymous
-  Sat Apr 06, 2019 11:38 pm #16110535
The Irish accent just sounds a lot more cooler.
By Anonymous
-  Thu Jun 25, 2020 1:33 pm #16227906
Imagine being English and complaining about anyone misrepresenting you lmaooooo, protestant trash burn in hell
By Anonymous
-  Thu Feb 09, 2017 1:28 am #15895716
This whole joke about him looking like Geralt barely even makes sense when you don't think about it, but the moment you even slightly scrutinize it becomes an outright idiotic claim. I'd be fine with it if it was meant to be "ironic" of sorts, where people obviously know he looks nothing like Geralt but they still say he does as an inside joke but it seems that's not the case.

Geralt has golden eyes, William's are blue.
Geralt has a very narrow concave jaw and chin while William's is VERY convex and broad.
Even the hair itself which is what is mainly making people think of Geralt isn't even white, it's golden blonde.

If I was a wiki editor I wouldn't entertain this "trivia". It isn't even trivia in the first place, even if the similarities were there.
By Anonymous
-  Mon Feb 13, 2017 7:35 pm #15897314
Dont even pretend he doesnt look like Geralt, that just makes you seem desperate and cringey.
However, I DO agree that its not something worth putting into the trivia.
By Anonymous
-  Sun Feb 19, 2017 7:43 am #15899062
Who the ***** is grealt?
By Anonymous
-  Sun Feb 19, 2017 12:48 pm #15899121
Funny enough I think you pretending he does look like Geralt makes you seem desperate and cringey, Anon. Desperate to regurgitate a really tired joke, and cringey for regurgitating a really unfunny joke.
By Anonymous
-  Wed Mar 01, 2017 3:42 am #15901969
If anything he looks like Jin Kazama to me XD
By Anonymous
-  Fri Apr 28, 2017 9:14 am #15934818
***** you
By Anonymous
-  Tue Mar 07, 2017 6:33 pm #15903789
Why do people make such a fuss over this guy? I've seen people saying things ranging from "why is he irish?" To "why the ***** isn't he customizable?". Jesus, just accept the fact that the developers wanted him to be like that and go enjoy the game for the jewel it is.
By Anonymous
-  Fri Apr 28, 2017 9:10 am #15934815
Yeah its about time we had a LGBT queer for a video game hero
By Anonymous
-  Thu May 04, 2017 4:05 am #15937106
i like him. customizable or not.
 Reply
 Return to “Nioh Wiki Comments”