Rise of the Ronin | Asmongold Reacts

okay so this is a game that team ninja is making right team ninja yeah aren't they releasing this game on the same day as uh as Dragons Dogma 2 that's so silly why would you do that PS5 exclusive as well yeah this the game play it's like NPCs from the beginning of Rise of the Ronin has been a blast so far well not a graphical stunner like sushima I have been very impressed with the depth and sheer number of things to do the story is compelling and gives you motivation to keep going to see what's next there's plenty of gear you can acquire to make a stronger build characters you meet during your journey will join your crew and fight alongside you there's a transmogrification system that lets you customize your appearance well also the best gear possible equipped and you can pet cats oh wow more importantly than all that the core gameplay felt like a mix of the that was pretty [ __ ] cool I'm going to be honest parrying a flaming arrow and then it makes your sword go on fire I haven't seen that before in a game that's cool storytelling an exploration and Assassin's Creed 2 with a smidgen of ninja Guiden combat that's one of the criticisms that I had of um of of woong I was going to say Wukong of of woong which was like the game I think that team ninja made before this one is that every single map and every single zone in woong was so formulaic and so syy it was super [ __ ] boring like I really really did not like that every single level had like you know you have to get these banners you have to collect these things you have to kill these these guys was the same [ __ ] so like the fact that this is like more open-ended is very good to hear Wong wasn't team ninja it wasn't was it not I remember the people told me that it was it was okay okay yeah I that's what I thought maybe I dash of Dark Souls difficulty in other words this recipe seems to be a perfect mix of gameplay ingredients that I've been loving I'm going to be curious if this game has more like cuz like woong had a lot of kind of fantasy elements where you could actually like do magic spells and [ __ ] I'm curious to see if this game is going to have that too the main story line of Rise of ronin is all about a Duo referred to as blade twins in this case it's believed that the duo will a brother and sister who nearly suffered a terrible fate at a young age as their Village burned to the ground okay instead they were saved and recruited into the veiled Edge as blade twins skilled with a sword blade twins train and grow together as they Master their skills one of your first tests of skill has you in infiltrating the ship of historical figure Matthew C Perry to steal a secret message and assassinate Perry after doing so this section does a good job of showing off a few stealth elements of ronin and also showcases combat with the footage PlayStation sent us to use for this preview combat will require precise timing for counters and you'll need to pay close attention to your key gauge which is basically a stamina getting hit they call it different your key but parrying your opponent or damaging them will result in a loss of their key deplete all their key and they'll be left open for a devastating attack I'm not dying here the back and forth is a lot of fun in practice but it's not easy to hit that perfect timing each encounter also allows you the opportunity to use stealth to infiltrate yeah one of the things with this game like one of my big criticisms with uh with woong was the fact that the attacks like the animations felt very sporadic and they weren't they didn't feel natural like for example I think like the attacks in Monster Hunter feel extremely natural even if they're very fast and like sometimes the NPCs would move in woong faster than I would assume would be physically possible and so it like kind of Liza P had the same issue too where it's like we're going to make this attack really fast so it makes the game harder and I I didn't like that I I thought that was like very cheesy difficulty I didn't like it at all I hope this game doesn't have as much of that and you can take out a few enemies without being seen But in almost every situation there will be higher powerered foes that will require you to know the combat Basics to defeat them and move forward so while I built the character with a speech trait that opened up some unique dialogue options for me there's no escaping those necessary combat beats that Ronin does quite well yeah this seems pretty that practice you don't go through the whole game with the girl right after this introduction that was pretty good I'm going to be honest I think that that combat was actually pretty good yeah I think it's I think it's just the beginning and then like the odds are it's like you choose to be the guy or the girl that's probably what I'm assuming Roman really opens up our preview window promised 2 hours of playable content but it turned out it was much more than this looks really nice access to a large open world that included Countryside towns and Open Fields as well as City spaces with different types of missions located at each in these sections you can choose to take on story quests side quests customize your long housee or play mini gamess alongside other activities I probably the horse does look really stupid doesn't it looks so dumb the provided footage we're allowed to use in this preview does a good job of showcasing a smattering of options available to players but even this feels like it's just a glimpse into what's available as I haven't even played what you're seeing yet one notable mission in the I'll say like the uh the visuals for the game look pretty good into like that that looks pretty nice what do you guys think like I'm actually kind of curious about the scale of the game yes this looks nice looks ass okay yeah I think I think it looks nice available as I haven't even played some of what you're seeing yet one notable mission in the footage was a story beat where I fought alongside the eccentric Ronin to gain his Allegiance in one of the battle missions in our preview battle missions allow us to gain Ally Allegiance as part of core story missions these are fun excursions that have bonus objectives like defeat three formidable foes and will have an impact on the overall story defeat three formidable foes I remember that there it is yep three Elite yeah three yeah they they had the exact same thing uhoh wind up experiencing the main objective in this case was to defeat Gonzo and decide his fate before looting some forged documents that would complete the quest I could have murdered him right there but I instead chose to spare Gonzo fast forward to the open world section and I meet a character in the middle of nowhere asking me to deal with a person who swindled him out of money who did it turn out to be none other than Gonzo who is getting into trouble again even after I spared him earlier time iish him for real or have him join my crew had I chosen to kill him off I would have been rewarded with some loot but if I didn't I got an extra helper to fight beside me in the open world I'll take that a few trinkets any day and I discovered these different outcomes because I reloaded my save just to see what would happen had I chosen the other option and while I had really been having fun with rise of the Ronin up until this point this was the moment that really solidified how much I was liking this game great combat an intriguing story decisions that matter tons of stuff to do and you can pet cats I'm sold my decision to I'm going to be honest I think this actually looks pretty promising All Things Considered I think this looks this is all right Gonzo would pay off too because in my upcoming Story Mission fight with Kira I now had three allies going into battle instead of just two myself The Eccentric Ronin and Gonzo were in Unstoppable Trio ready to take Kira down and that's just in tremendously excited to see who else I can recruit into my group these were the core missions that we got to experience in our preview but there's a lot more to do while running one problem that I'm worried about is that uh the PC compatibility for this game is this game PC or is it uh yeah it doesn't say is it PC or is it just PS5 okay so it's only PS5 okay well then I don't problem solved open world you might come upon towns that are overrun you need to dispatch to restore order there are Min games like the Gatling gun firearm range that was teased in the footage Sony sent over or the glider mini games that challenge you to break all the targets floating in the sky and while they didn't show much of it in the video that we're allowed to use there's an entire gear system at play that encourages you to learn different weapons and use tools like the sub weapon class that includes things like throwing stars rifles bows and more for combat to get a leg up in battle by the way which have a smattering of Samurai Classics rise of the Ronin is poised to give players a lot to dive into and while it doesn't quite live up to PlayStation's first party open world exclusives in the graphics Department the developers at Team ninja have focused on what's important an engaging story that has a great hook to keep you exploring a fun gameplay system that will keep you striving to perfect your skills and all of that is found alongside a smattering of fun activities to challenge yourself with I can't wait to see how it all comes together when Ron and launches later this month this just really definitely beats the that [ __ ] shitty house and then there's a tree and there's like another house in like woong there was like no open world in that game at all like there was no space you could do anything looks like a PS3 game yeah the graphics quality for these games aren't really that good I don't feel like I think they're kind of more like this is mainly like a combat like play Style game and it's not really a graphical experience gaml matters TOA better of South real final preview of Dragon's Dogma 2 for the rest of your gaming news previews features reviews and gameel stay here on IGN yeah I think this is pretty fair I love the art style yeah I think the art style is good uh like I'll see if I can get like that one scene that they show of like the whole yeah this this looks very nice is it like amazing it's not amazing but this is fine and it's workable but I mean you're right if you told me this game came out in 2014 I'd be like yeah I can tell like I would just if you asked me what year this game came out in and it was like it had good graphics for that year I would say 2014 doesn't make the game bad but um you know I think again the style for the game is decent enough too it's fine they [ __ ] up the colors that's why I think yeah there's like a saturation issue maybe I'm not sure but I do I do plan on playing this at least trying it out right I just hope that the game is like more fun than wo long was real Gamers play for the gameplay not the graphics yeah but the graphics sure make it better don't they I'm not really being negative about that I mean that that's fine but like I would like to see good graphics too but I'm not going to complain about bad Graphics if that makes sense Graphics enhanced gameplay yeah they sure do and also like there's like two different things like whenever we talk about Graphics there's like graph iCal Fidelity and art Direction art direction is like a thousand times more important than Fidelity because like you can always have like upscaling texture packs [ __ ] like that like Monster Hunter world has that a lot of games have that like Skyrim has a million of them but like the art style the art Direction that's what really matters a lot that's why a game like World of Warcraft for example can be timeless a game like high-fi Rush Timeless like people can go back and play highi Rush In 20 years and have roughly the same experience and not have that experience diminished by the graphical quality in the same way that like you know you go back you play Ocarina of Time and like the graphics for that game are [ __ ] garbage right let's be honest and it would be really nice if they weren't but um Heroes 3 yeah there's a lot of different examples like valheim Hollow Knight yeah Hades for sure

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Published: Fri Mar 15 2024