The Possibility of an Expansion or Sequel

[jonwillwest]

After watching videos of the game, seeing its surprisingly low selling price, and carefully reading the steam reviews, I decided take a gamble and try this game. Fortunately, I made a good a gamble and am actually loving this game, but I'm afraid that the poor reviews will outright prevent the possibility of an expansion or sequel. The steam reviews are hanging around a pitiful 50 percent, mostly complaining about the optimization; for the PlayStation, I believe the reviews are around 70 percent, neither great nor terrible. From what I've experienced, the game is actually much better than what is suggested, and a good expansion could help to vastly improve its reception. Most of the performance issues that I have managed to come across were rather trivial, and I don't understand what a few people are complaining about the combat. The combat is excellent. Once they iron out the bugs, add in some quality of life improvements (I recommend the ability to disable those tutorial pop-ups), I hope that the developer don't simply abandon this game.

[𝕁𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕝𝕖]

Everyone loves the game… the issue is performance ONLY. On both pc and console, if it released perfectly optimized this game would get a overwhelmingly positive review score.

[n1lknarf]

The only QoL I want is that they remove swapping targets when lock on is enabled if the interaction input is pressed, so I can swap weapon styles without changing the target.

I don't think they tested this type of behavior given that they want you to keep the stance that counters the enemy stance.

However, swapping styles cancels all recoveries, including the counters, so you don't have to get punished if you fail them, just swap the style.

[Mike]

Originally posted by n1lknarf:

The only QoL I want is that they remove swapping targets when lock on is enabled if the interaction input is pressed, so I can swap weapon styles without changing the target.

THIS 100%. I thought I was the only one who had the issue because when I made a post about this no one responded lol.

Its so annoying trying to do cool stuff with the style system and the lock on keeps swapping to nearby enemies.

[Chosen King VemNem]

This game 10000% deserves some nice DLC expansions of some sort for sure. I don't really see a sequel happening, but some more content with our blade twin, and more co-op endgame stuff would be great

[Hyobx]

I'm having a great time as well, I think I'm nearing the end of chapter 3 and I'm kinda bummed there isn't much more of the game in a good way. That being said, I could see a prequel dlc focusing on the blade master but sequel wise its very slim, I hope I'm wrong though.

[Stall]

Originally posted by Chosen King VemNem:

This game 10000% deserves some nice DLC expansions of some sort for sure. I don't really see a sequel happening, but some more content with our blade twin, and more co-op endgame stuff would be great

Yeah an endgame co-op focused expansion would be awesome but if they did that they should add cross-play too.

[ragnarok666]

As the game released a year ago on PS5 and there has been no word at all since then about DLC the chances are basically null. Also, previous Team Ninja games, that got DLC had them announced at game release as part of season passes.
Looking at Elden Ring I believe the DLC was only made because of how well the game sold and was not originally planned; thats why we had to wait 2 years for it and it is so disjoint from the base game. Hoping for something similar to happen for Rise of the Ronin is dilutional , as the game nowhere sold well enough.

Team Ninja have announced some (yet unrevealed) "big plans" for their 30th anniversary in 2025, beyond Ninja Gaiden 4 my money is on a Nioh 3 announcement;
or a new Dead or Alive, that will aim for 1000+ cosmetic DLCs.

[RodroG]

Originally posted by 𝕁𝕒𝕔𝕜𝕝𝕖:

Everyone loves the game… the issue is performance ONLY. On both pc and console, if it released perfectly optimized this game would get a overwhelmingly positive review score.

I agree. I'm having a blast playing it. With a bit of tweaking most with capable hardware (especially CPU) can get a solid 60 fps experience. After that, the game is pure joy with rewarding and fun gameplay and many combat approaches. Making allies and building relationships with them is also a nice plus. The story plot and historical lore are also great. It also looks great most of the time, which makes it easy to snap some great screenshots.