How Ghostwire: Tokyo's Ghosts Use Rain Walker Lore
Ghostwire: Tokyo is populated by ghosts that display a modern take on Japanese mythos by fusing ghosts together with social aspects. These creatures are called Visitors in the game, and it is up to the main character Akito Izuki to exorcise them while fighting through the city. The most common enemy for Akito is the Rain Walkers, who are depicted in the game as faceless figures that wander the city of Tokyo. These insidious entities portray themselves as businessmen hidden under their umbrellas, only revealing their smooth, featureless faces when attacking their victims.
These Visitors are based off of yōkai from Japanese legends in Ghostwire: Tokyo, despite being classified as two separate the Noppera-Bō, which translates into «faceless ghost.» This creature is a Japanese yōkai that, like the Rain Walker, resembles humans but lacks a face. Interestingly enough, even this yōkai's own stories would usually be another creature such as a kitsune, a mujina, or a tanuki — all yōkai capable of disguising themselves — pretending to be the Noppera-Bō instead. This fact is not shown in Ghostwire: Tokyo, but other aspects seem present that are worth comparing.
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Visitors are usually depicted as enemies in the game for the player to defeat on their journey. In the game, Rain Walkers are an archetype of these Visitors that seem to be docile wanderers of Ghostwire: Tokyo's beautiful yet seemingly abandoned streets until the player gets too close, which they utilize telekinesis to launch debris and slash at Akito to damage him. These yōkai have been fused with certain archetypes, and Rain Walkers seem to stem from a certain hierarchy of society in the form of office
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