revolverjgw
Member
Looks alright, reminds me of Vice- Project Doom. That big sword arc.
Oniken 8bit Shinobi x Mega Man x Ninja Gaiden x Strider x Kenshiro x Guts!
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iconoclast
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I bought this earlier today. It's not bad, but I've only played it for a few hours and I've already managed to no miss everything. So it's pretty easy, but for $5, it's good enough.
It does have some really basic design faults, though. For some reason, stages seem to be separated from one another - you can play all of them successively, but your lives and score don't carry between each stage. For the online leaderboards (I'm currently #1 btw
), it just adds all of your best scores together, so there's no incentive to do a full run from start to finish. That's pretty dumb.
It does have some really basic design faults, though. For some reason, stages seem to be separated from one another - you can play all of them successively, but your lives and score don't carry between each stage. For the online leaderboards (I'm currently #1 btw
), it just adds all of your best scores together, so there's no incentive to do a full run from start to finish. That's pretty dumb.
wondermega
Member
I bought this earlier today. It's not bad, but I've only played it for a few hours and I've already managed to no miss everything. So it's pretty easy, but for $5, it's good enough.
It does have some really basic design faults, though. For some reason, stages seem to be separated from one another - you can play all of them successively, but your lives and score don't carry between each stage. For the online leaderboards (I'm currently #1 btw
I think I need to get you to playtest my game
D3RANG3D
Member
I bought this earlier today. It's not bad, but I've only played it for a few hours and I've already managed to no miss everything. So it's pretty easy, but for $5, it's good enough.
It does have some really basic design faults, though. For some reason, stages seem to be separated from one another - you can play all of them successively, but your lives and score don't carry between each stage. For the online leaderboards (I'm currently #1 btw
Some of us play games for fun
Give the developer actual feedback on the Desura page, everybody is shitting their pants 10/10 best game ever. Maybe hell fix said issue.
Best post so far.
Monty Mole
Member
CINEMATIC CUTSCENES lol
Looks awesome, will give the demo a try later
Looks awesome, will give the demo a try later
iconoclast
Member
I do think the game is pretty fun, so I'm not trying to hate on it or anything, but there are still some major changes I would make. Like I said before, I'd have your lives and total score carry across all stages. You already get a bonus 1000 points for each life you have when you clear a stage, so being able to stack them would create an incentive to beat the entire game without dying.
I'd also get rid of the full health refill you get whenever you enter a new section of a stage. Instead, I'd just place a couple of health packs in fixed positions in each level (and make some of them risky to go for). Doing this would make the game a little harder (which is good), and it would also fix a problem with the scoring system. As it is, the best way to score is to rush through a level as fast as you can for the time bonus - it doesn't matter if you take a bunch of damage along the way because 1. you'll get a full health refill soon, and 2. you don't get any points based on how much health you finish a stage with. So that leads into another change I'd make: give the player a reason to avoid taking damage by having your health directly affect your score. The randomized items can be pretty annoying as well.
And finally, I uploaded a full playthrough (incl. cutscenes) of the game here if anyone wants to check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU-3k8VayN4
I'd also get rid of the full health refill you get whenever you enter a new section of a stage. Instead, I'd just place a couple of health packs in fixed positions in each level (and make some of them risky to go for). Doing this would make the game a little harder (which is good), and it would also fix a problem with the scoring system. As it is, the best way to score is to rush through a level as fast as you can for the time bonus - it doesn't matter if you take a bunch of damage along the way because 1. you'll get a full health refill soon, and 2. you don't get any points based on how much health you finish a stage with. So that leads into another change I'd make: give the player a reason to avoid taking damage by having your health directly affect your score. The randomized items can be pretty annoying as well.
And finally, I uploaded a full playthrough (incl. cutscenes) of the game here if anyone wants to check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GU-3k8VayN4
This image alone has sold me on this game.
ReyVGM
Member
Arghhh why isn't this on a console's online store! I hate playing on the computer.
Also, HG101 article with lots of pictures:
http://hardcoregaming101.net/oniken/oniken.htm
Also, HG101 article with lots of pictures:
http://hardcoregaming101.net/oniken/oniken.htm
Nope, I've played it too! Great game, I loved the 2P co-op the game had... did you know that Ninja Gaiden Shadow for GB was originally gonna be a GB version of Shadow of the Ninja, but then Tecmo bought the rights to it?
I need to play Oniken, it's one of those games on the list... an indie 8bit action game sounds right up my alley.
Seraphinianus
Banned
wondermega
Member
Ditto, Shadow of the Ninja was excellent and quite noteworthy when it released. I don't recall exactly, but I believe the mags were touting (then-new developer) Natsume as being formed out of refugees from Konami and Capcom or something, and therefore to expect some wonderful tech and great gameplay from their early games (Ninja, as well as the unfortunately-named S.C.A.T.) -- they were not wrong!
It's alright I suppose but honestly if I'd played this on an actual NES I'd have been nonplussed by it. I give them props for at least being a B quality NES game, usually indy developers think they can give a game 16 color graphics and chiptunez and call it a day- this does actually play and feel like an NES game. Perhaps almost too much
Mentaiko_Allergy
Member
*brofists*
D3RANG3D
Member
It's alright I suppose but honestly if I'd played this on an actual NES I'd have been nonplussed by it. I give them props for at least being a B quality NES game, usually indy developers think they can give a game 16 color graphics and chiptunez and call it a day- this does actually play and feel like an NES game. Perhaps almost too much
It plays more like a genesis game because it's way to fast for a NES game, and some of the sprites are way to complex! 8bit ethos, soundtrack, and color pallet but that's about it.
this game was on a recent indie indie bundle, y u no bump thread?!?!?!
anywayz,
I played thru this game yesterday!!! it's great!!
I love how with the 8bit style everything is so precise!! the character for the most part always moves and attacks exactly how I want him to!!
(the one hard part was attacking both sides of u while crouching, sometimes I couldnt get the other side out in time...)
and so many great bosses!!! love them all!!
my problem with the game:
it's too easy.
IMO the game would benefit greatly from a lower health bar, like 3 hits and u done.
thing is, the game is never cheap. It's designed so well that every threat has a very clean and clear pattern for the player to learn from.
but there's no consequence in not learning. You have so much health that when u do screw up it's like oh well keep moving on, thus you never get to appreciate the design since the player can rely more on brute force than precision and skill.
other than that it's a real good game. If it came out in NES time lots of us would remember it fondly and love it. It's not like there arent other great NES games that are easy.
anywayz,
I played thru this game yesterday!!! it's great!!
I love how with the 8bit style everything is so precise!! the character for the most part always moves and attacks exactly how I want him to!!
(the one hard part was attacking both sides of u while crouching, sometimes I couldnt get the other side out in time...)
and so many great bosses!!! love them all!!
my problem with the game:
it's too easy.
IMO the game would benefit greatly from a lower health bar, like 3 hits and u done.
thing is, the game is never cheap. It's designed so well that every threat has a very clean and clear pattern for the player to learn from.
but there's no consequence in not learning. You have so much health that when u do screw up it's like oh well keep moving on, thus you never get to appreciate the design since the player can rely more on brute force than precision and skill.
other than that it's a real good game. If it came out in NES time lots of us would remember it fondly and love it. It's not like there arent other great NES games that are easy.
Red Sutter
Banned
Man, why can't these indie devs make something that looks like a 16-bit game for once?
Might be interesting to try this, though
Might be interesting to try this, though
As said in their Greenlight Page, the game now supports MAC and Linux.
So if you got the game on desura, you can go to the download page to get these versions there
So if you got the game on desura, you can go to the download page to get these versions there
Bump and Double post because in 2 days it comes out on steam !
And they release this ... trailer
edit :
Improved sprites, new music, achievements, leaderboards, new dificulty ...
And they release this ... trailer
edit :
Improved sprites, new music, achievements, leaderboards, new dificulty ...
D3RANG3D
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D3RANG3D
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D3RANG3D
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There are a few things you could try.
1. Try verifying the game cache by:
Right click game in library>properties>local files>verify game cache.
2. Launch game try remapping buttons.
3. Make sure you set your 360 pad as preferred device in devices in printers.
Control Panel>Devices and Printers Controller (name of controller)>Right click controller icon>Game Controller Settings>Click Advanced>Click drag down box>Set to (name of controller)>click ok
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There is a hardcore mode though, but that mode is too hard. I just want the enemies to deal more damage. They don't seem to be doing that, lol.
manueldelalas
Time Traveler
Just heads up, this game is $1.24 right now. Buying.