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[Draugoth]

In Rise of the Ronin, you can face your foes with a variety of melee and ranged weaponry, commanding unique special moves to prevail in combat.Available March 22, 2024 only on PS5!Pre-order now for in-game bonuses.

 

[Yautja_Warrior]

It's looking pretty good. I'm looking forward to this one.

 

[bbeach123]

The world polygon count and lighting remind me of AC blackflag.

Heck AC blackflag's world look better than this .

 

[Solidus_T]

The best feature of this game. I am glad to see that it is expanding on Nioh's combat, which is already some of the best in any game.

 

[FalsettoVibe]

The world polygon count and lighting remind me of AC blackflag.

Heck AC blackflag's world look better than this .

I'm gonna have to disagree.

 

[Labadal]

I have a friend or two who asked if I was interested in co-op. Still not day 1, but could be an earlier purchase than I thought.

 

[stn]

There's a "Nioh" style and a "Hayabusa" style, which makes me think there are movesets designed around Nioh and Ninja Gaiden. Which is amazing. One thing I'm hoping for is some crossover gear, I'd love to have a character in Hayabusa's doppelganger outfit, for example.

 

[NT80]

That combat looks fantastic. For every other flaw the game might have I expect them to excel in this area as they usually do.

 

[FalsettoVibe]

The more I watch this trailer, the better this game looks.

 

[Clear]

People should know by now what Team Ninja's games look like. I honestly think that once you start playing their games, you realize they work well visually.

Yes, the engine isn't the most modern, with all fancy features. But, their games are actually pretty good looking aesthetically. Particularly if you focus on the character work there's a lot of care and detail put in. Its all about the combat though, and in that respect they keep any flaws out of the way. Action is smooth and responsive, its not stodgy or floaty, and it flows well with a good sense of impact to strikes.

Yeah, I'm biased insofar as I've put hundreds of hours into their post-Nioh games, but that amount of play-time should speak for itself.

 

[octos]

It's all about gameplay, and so far I really like what I see, the 3 stances system from Nioh 1/2, some finishing moves like Ninja Gaiden 2. I hope this game features a small "jump" like in NG (but nothing like Wo Long please).

 

[DavidGzz]

Looks cool. Definitely avoiding gun combat. Bow for me.

 

[Spyxos]

The more I see of this game, the more unsure I am about getting it. It has some interesting stuff, but somehow I've seen it better in similar games.

 

[rhodesianshepard]

People should know by now what Team Ninja's games look like. I honestly think that once you start playing their games, you realize they work well visually.

Yes, the engine isn't the most modern, with all fancy features. But, their games are actually pretty good looking aesthetically. Particularly if you focus on the character work there's a lot of care and detail put in. Its all about the combat though, and in that respect they keep any flaws out of the way. Action is smooth and responsive, its not stodgy or floaty, and it flows well with a good sense of impact to strikes.

Yeah, I'm biased insofar as I've put hundreds of hours into their post-Nioh games, but that amount of play-time should speak for itself.

I just played the Nioh Games recently and both of them hold up incredibly well. I don't need graphics look much better than that personally, especially for a studio that excels with S tier combat.

Having said that, Team Ninja needs to move off the Katana engine. It is very apparent from the trailers that it deeply struggles to process an open world game like ROTR. The pop-in and texture issues are very noticeable

 

[Shits_McGiggles]

The world polygon count and lighting remind me of AC blackflag.

Heck AC blackflag's world look better than this .

The modern AC games have worlds that look worse than blackflag's.

 

[S0ULZB0URNE]

The world polygon count and lighting remind me of AC blackflag.

Heck AC blackflag's world look better than this .

Assassins Creed the soulless shit series.

 

[Northeastmonk]

Crazy they release this the day Dragon’s Dogma 2 comes out. It looks like a lot of fun. After Wo Long, it’s nice to have something a bit grounded in reality. I wonder how ammo is replenished or how that works. They haven’t gone into too much detail about the inventory or menus other than showing the combat styles. I’m eager to play this, but I’ll probably play it after DD2.

 

[Shake Your Rump]

The more I see of this game, the more unsure I am about getting it. It has some interesting stuff, but somehow I've seen it better in similar games.

I feel the same way. I am also not a fan of all the straight up murdering of human enemies. Nioh was cool because you had demons and such. This is just all humans for some reason?

 

[Eiknarf]

So the review embargo is the day before its release

 

[tmlDan]

So the review embargo is the day before its release

so?

 

[Northeastmonk]

I feel like this is being overshadowed by quite a few March releases. I thought Wo Long had more buzz about it.

 

[Eiknarf]

I feel like this is being overshadowed by quite a few March releases. I thought Wo Long had more buzz about it.

Definitely

I just wanna know how it compares to Ghost of Tsushima

Wish the reviews dropped a week before so I could pre-order if reception is good-
With reviews dropping 24 hours before, that could be seen as a bad sign.
We’ll see

 

[Slimboy Fat]

Open world is the way to go for soulslikes. Nioh-esque combat combined with the freedom and exploration of open design will be great. Unfortunate that this game doesn't seem to be getting the attention it deserves. One factor is surely Team Ninjas new engine which doesn't deliver very good visuals or performance.

 

[Variahunter]

Open world is the way to go for soulslikes. Nioh-esque combat combined with the freedom and exploration of open design will be great. Unfortunate that this game doesn't seem to be getting the attention it deserves. One factor is surely Team Ninjas new engine which doesn't deliver very good visuals or performance.

Yes I’m kind of disappointed too by the lack of attention on this one. It’s my most awaited game of the year with DD2 and Visions of Mana.
It’s not the most beautiful, and to be honest the downgrade from the first trailer is quite obvious, but the gameplay and the builds will be great nonetheless as it’s Team Ninja and they’re using their experience to get the best out of their previous games (NioH, Wo Long).
Considering that for the first time we have 3 of the main Japan cities explorable in this era, it’s quite an enormous task to reproduce all the assets. Going open world is no small task, and I’ve been to both Kyoto and Tokyo, and Kyoto is very recognizable with its layout and temples, it will be very enjoyable to visit in the Bakumatsu era, so kudos to TN for that.

I’d really like people to consider that Ghost didn’t feature any cities in its game, and I swear it’s because they knew it would be a hard task to recreate Kyoto or Edo with a good fidelity that they chose to set the game in Tsushima. On the other hand, I could see them trying it for the second game.

 

[Slimboy Fat]

Yes I’m kind of disappointed too by the lack of attention on this one. It’s my most awaited game of the year with DD2 and Visions of Mana.
It’s not the most beautiful, and to be honest the downgrade from the first trailer is quite obvious, but the gameplay and the builds will be great nonetheless as it’s Team Ninja and they’re using their experience to get the best out of their previous games (NioH, Wo Long).
Considering that for the first time we have 3 of the main Japan cities explorable in this era, it’s quite an enormous task to reproduce all the assets. Going open world is no small task, and I’ve been to both Kyoto and Tokyo, and Kyoto is very recognizable with its layout and temples, it will be very enjoyable to visit in the Bakumatsu era, so kudos to TN for that.

I’d really like people to consider that Ghost didn’t feature any cities in its game, and I swear it’s because they knew it would be a hard task to recreate Kyoto or Edo with a good fidelity that they chose to set the game in Tsushima. On the other hand, I could see them trying it for the second game.

At least the game seems to be running at 60fps. Hope it's coming to PC soon

 

[Variahunter]

At least the game seems to be running at 60fps. Hope it's coming to PC soon

Yes that’s also a factor here. There is a fidelity 30 fps mode though, and they haven’t shown it since the reveal I think. It made sense to show the action part in 60fps, but I don’t understand why the “World vignette” video was not shown in fidelity mode.
Really weird marketing.

 

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