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Rise of the Ronin Review - IGN

A cool setting, Team Ninja’s mastery of tough-but-fair combat, and smart RPG design all shine, but map clutter and junk loot can get in the way.

GoodGuy0968d ago

Scores are mixed. Unfortunate. I'll wait for a sale.

Obscure_Observer68d ago

76 on Metacritic.

Can´t say I´m sad because it´s not available on Xbox.

ravens5268d ago

Why be sad, 76 isn't a terrible score lol. It's ok. It's a good game, just not great.

mariopasta68d ago (Edited 68d ago )

It's an open world Samurai/Ronin game set in Japan. I'm happy. There are not a lot of those games going around. When I wake up, I'm picking it up

notachance68d ago

If it’s an xbox exclusive you’d be screaming game of the year

Elda68d ago

If it was an XB exclusive you would be praising the game regardless & saying you're getting the game day one.

TheKingKratos68d ago

What a sad miserable excuse of human being you are

It's like your whole existence to be a slave to MicroSh1t

Kornholic68d ago

You were super happy about Starfield, though, which is a 6 or 7 game at best. Weird.

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S2Killinit68d ago (Edited 68d ago )

Well, Im getting it day one. I dont care if IGN guy that played it liked or didnt like. I like what i’ve seen. And I love the setting.

Michiel198968d ago

exactly, even if the game isn't a 9/10 you can have as much enjoyment out of it

lelo2play68d ago

Team Ninja's last game was crap... this one doesn't look any better.

Elda68d ago

Wo Long was not crap, it was a fun game with a score of 80.

raWfodog68d ago (Edited 68d ago )

Every time I buy a new game, it’s on sale. Because I never buy a game when it first releases. Always better for me to wait for updates and patches.

TheEroica68d ago

Ten downvotes because you won't shill for Sony on a mediocre game asking 70 bucks. It's OK bud. I up voted you.... I like gamers with standards.

Barlos67d ago (Edited 67d ago )

Obscure Observer doesn't have standards though. As for shilling, just wait until there's an Xbox story, he's all over it like a rash, ending every sentence with infinite exclamation marks. Honestly it's a bit cringe.

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DEEBO68d ago

Day one!
Combat looks great!

mariopasta68d ago

Yep me too. Open world games set in historic Japan are exciting to me and they're pretty rare if you think baout it. Combat looks great, that's all I need

S2Killinit68d ago

This^

You should be watching Hulu’s Shogun series!

TrueRican6968d ago

It say how you let them company tell u it a 7 out of 10 then going out playing your self just cuz he did not enjoy it and shit don't mean you won't I will never believe anything ign say they just want push a review they not even enjoying the game.

Eonjay68d ago

One of the IGN's gave it a 9, another gave it an 8 and this one gave it a 7. Who do you believe?

blackblades68d ago

America IGN always have the lowest of all the IGN for some reason

S2Killinit68d ago (Edited 68d ago )

It complains about junk loot, but the game allows automatic selling of any loot below whatever level you set.

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S2Killinit68d ago

No, because generally xbox has no games worth defending for me. If they did, I would defend them if I had an xbox.

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lucian22968d ago

so tired of junk loot with team ninja games. i dont understand why they think players like cycling through a crap ton of garbage gear. it wasnt fun in nioh or any of their other games; they need to go back to ninja gaiden route and stick to one actual good weapon of a variety and move on.

raWfodog68d ago

That’s why they give you the option to automatically sell gear under a certain level, so you don’t have to cycle through them if you don’t want to.

mariopasta68d ago

It has an option to mass-sell all loot below any level that you set it to.

Eonjay68d ago

IGN conveniently left out that this really isn't a issue.

Chriswynnetbh68d ago

I agree I wish they would go the souls route and make gear more unique to reduce the junk loot. Tho I do like how it gives the endgame legs to go deeper into ng+

bartfart68d ago

Oh man their loot system is so bad. Even with the option to sell all junk I still have to look through it all......

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Rise of the Ronin Releases Big New Update

The latest update for Rise of the Ronin brings huge changes to the game by introducing new content, adjusting the gameplay, and fixing bugs.

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ZeekQuattro6d ago

Gotta get back to this. I took a break for a while.

H94d ago

I started this yesterday, it's like Ghost of Tsushima but with a actually fun combat, I don't like the Assassin's Creed world design in both tbh

EnViiDisnuCCa4d ago

Ain't nothing like ghost of tsushima rise of the ronin is way different from ghost

H94d ago

Same open world design which is the biggest chunk of the game, the biggest difference are the combats which is great and the souls style interconnected dungeons

Elda4d ago

I just beat the game & it does remind me of Ghost Of Tsushima. It has some Ghost Of Tsushima influences, though Rise OF The Ronin is its own game.

notachance4d ago

I had a blast with it, AC style open-world with Nioh gameplay, and the combat was way easier than their past title so you can actually chill while playing it and not raging all over the open world.

Demetrius4d ago

I tried getting into this but it felt way too much like a souls game, it felt like fromsoftware made it, it would be nice if most devs knew they don't have to copy souls game for success, cause most of every game that copies them I rarely hear about those titles again and people I've talked to rarely know about em, but they know of darksouls, elden ring, can't beat the originals, not saying ronin a bad game I'm just not into souls like games I like for devs to be creative and copy less, it's so many ideas games could use nowadays

Einhander19724d ago (Edited 4d ago )

"I tried getting into this but it felt way too much like a souls game."

You can change the difficulty and make it more like a hack and slash. It doesn't need to be a stressful playthrough.

Psychonaut854d ago

Good to see them continuing to support it, good game but definitely needed some love.

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Team Ninja: How Ninja Gaiden and Nioh connect to Rise of the Ronin

Many of you who have already played Rise of the Ronin may have noticed some elements of our previous works such as Ninja Gaiden and Nioh from Team Ninja. Today we’re excited to share some of the behind-the-scenes development stories for the first time. Plus we share details on an upcoming game update.

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purple1016d ago

not a good title FPS RUSSIA. should have gone with: "new content added'. ... or something like that

try : 'New and expanded content 5 new Ally Missions added. + Addition of dojo training partners"

FPSRUSSIA6d ago

Lol thats the title of the article by playstation blog what are you talking about ?

FPSRUSSIA6d ago

Read the article it has nothing to do with what you said

purple1016d ago

I literally copied and pasted that from the bottom of the article

DEEBO6d ago

The new update is so good...

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Rise of the Ronin—A History of Music With Composer Inon Zur

CGMagazine had the opportunity to speak about the soundtrack of Rise of the Ronin, Starfield and more with composer Inon Zur.

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