Do not buy this game, if you love Team Ninja

[Treasure Chest]

If you love Team Ninja and their games, do not buy this game.

Why?

Rise of the Ronin was made as the new flagship IP for the company and was supposed to be the new standard for the future of Team Ninja games, it had massive funding and the sales were expected to be 5m+ copies sold on PS5 alone. Team Ninja betrayed their core audience and went for the casual market, made the game open-world and added super easy and easy difficulty modes to appeal to casuals. What happened? In the launch week Rise of the Ronin was one of their fastest selling games, but in the long run it had no legs and sold worse than Nioh 1.

If this game was a success, it would have ruined and killed Team Ninja for good. Thank God it was a massive failure. Don't forget that Team Ninja has a tendency to try and sellout (Remember original Ninja Gaiden 3 which was an interactive movie and almost killed the franchise?), but so far, every time they have tried that, the games were failures.

If you love NINJA GAIDEN and NIOH, do not buy this game, this game was supposed to destroy that which you love. It is very important that this game continues to be a financial failure, so that future Team Ninja games remain of high quality and aren't boring open-world garbage with casualized difficulty settings.

Even Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty is far superior to this boring open-world slop!

Go buy Ninja Gaiden 2 Black, Ninja Gaiden 4 or Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty instead, and in the future Nioh 3.

[MangorushZ]

Cool, I'm still buying it n release.

[Kornelius]

Wishlisted
Looking forward to playing.

[Shadowlet]

Honestly Ronin is their worst Nioh game yet, even more than Wolong

[Shivers]

Publicado originalmente por Shadowlet:

Honestly Ronin is their worst Nioh game yet, even more than Wolong

Not possible

[MajinSoul]

Boycott a game because ... they added difficulty options?

[Shadowlet]

Publicado originalmente por Fermentaterer Bone Soup:

Publicado originalmente por Shadowlet:

Honestly Ronin is their worst Nioh game yet, even more than Wolong

Not possible

It really is.

Not going to rob you of your innocence though, gl.

[CoBEpeuH]

wu long is ♥♥♥♥, and Ronin is a masterpiece.

[Noma]

Knowledgeable players had predicted the game flopping, like a turd in a onsen. Nobody would buy a disgusting attempt by Team Ninja to fill their game with revulsing game mechanics taken from the rotten toilet where Ubisoft and Guerilla last shat.

Obviously, the game released on the same day as the massively superior Dragon's Dogma 2 and failed miserably, killing any further unholy thoughts about a second episode.

It's bad taste to try to partake in the deranged fishing out of crap game design, I hope that they learned their lesson and will stop with such scatophagic behaviour.

[Shivers]

Publicado originalmente por Noma:

Knowledgeable players had predicted the game flopping, like a turd in a onsen. Nobody would buy a disgusting attempt by Team Ninja to fill their game with revulsing game mechanics taken from the rotten toilet where Ubisoft and Guerilla last shat.

Obviously, the game released on the same day as the massively superior Dragon's Dogma 2 and failed miserably, killing any further unholy thoughts about a second episode.

It's bad taste to try to partake in the deranged fishing out of crap game design, I hope that they learned their lesson and will stop with such scatophagic behaviour.

What Mechanics are you referring to?
And yeah, releasing on the same day as GOTY 2024 was a bad move, perhaps the steam release will fair better, given Dragon's Dogma 2 isn't going to be re-released this year they should be good.

[Shivers]

Publicado originalmente por Shadowlet:

Publicado originalmente por Fermentaterer Bone Soup:

Not possible

It really is.

Not going to rob you of your innocence though, gl.

Wo long's combat was too simple to be really viable to do anything but spam X, I highly doubt the gameplay of this will be reduced to that of the first punching QTE in the fight against Senator Armstrong's shirt in MGR:R. The gameplay is not going to be spamming light attack again, and anything is preferable

[Rapp Snitch Knishes]

I bought like 10 copies of this masterpiece

[Captain Blud]

They added difficulty settings so everyone has a chance to play and have fun? Oh the horror!

[REBirthTheEdge]

Publicado originalmente por Noma:

Knowledgeable players had predicted the game flopping, like a turd in a onsen. Nobody would buy a disgusting attempt by Team Ninja to fill their game with revulsing game mechanics taken from the rotten toilet where Ubisoft and Guerilla last shat.

Obviously, the game released on the same day as the massively superior Dragon's Dogma 2 and failed miserably, killing any further unholy thoughts about a second episode.

It's bad taste to try to partake in the deranged fishing out of crap game design, I hope that they learned their lesson and will stop with such scatophagic behaviour.

Dragon's Dogma 2?
Massively superior?
That is hard drugs you are smoking.

[dog dogy]

I preorder this game on PS5 cause i trusted Team ninja, finished nioh 1,2 and Wo long, but this game was so disappointing i never bothered to finish it, it was trying TOO HARD to be like Ghost of Tsushima, and IT FAILED

[Buldor]

Publicado originalmente por Treasure Chest:

If you love Team Ninja and their games, do not buy this game.

Why?

Rise of the Ronin was made as the new flagship IP for the company and was supposed to be the new standard for the future of Team Ninja games, it had massive funding and the sales were expected to be 5m+ copies sold on PS5 alone. Team Ninja betrayed their core audience and went for the casual market, made the game open-world and added super easy and easy difficulty modes to appeal to casuals. What happened? In the launch week Rise of the Ronin was one of their fastest selling games, but in the long run it had no legs and sold worse than Nioh 1.

If this game was a success, it would have ruined and killed Team Ninja for good. Thank God it was a massive failure. Don't forget that Team Ninja has a tendency to try and sellout (Remember original Ninja Gaiden 3 which was an interactive movie and almost killed the franchise?), but so far, every time they have tried that, the games were failures.

If you love NINJA GAIDEN and NIOH, do not buy this game, this game was supposed to destroy that which you love. It is very important that this game continues to be a financial failure, so that future Team Ninja games remain of high quality and aren't boring open-world garbage with casualized difficulty settings.

Even Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty is far superior to this boring open-world slop!

Go buy Ninja Gaiden 2 Black, Ninja Gaiden 4 or Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty instead, and in the future Nioh 3.

Isn't your argument essentially, "if you love Team Ninja, you should kill their studio"? Like, if games are financially failures, then the studio gets closed down.

Also, them making a game that is different from a soulslike, isn't a bad thing. Not sure why you want them to die, or be a one trick pony. But you clearly don't have much love for the studio, and instead just have some cultish opinion about their Nioh games.