r/riseoftheronin

Context, I just got the British training for the bayonet rifle, but can’t activate version ,where the character charged at the enemy while shooting the gun, it doesn’t tell me how to do it, need little help.

Yep. This combat is stupid good. Y'all were right about the katana.

I want more oxtail action. What's the best way to go about getting the styles I'll need for the seemingly only decent aerial combos in the game?

I take these games sloooooow, so getting what I need can take as much time as needed. Running unarmed at the moment because haha.

For me, just please allow me to make my own style using all the parts we like from all these fighting styles we encounter throughout the game

Thats just literally it for me, one simple change, hundreds of hours added to future playthroughs

I want to fond a katana with a jagged blade edge.

I had wanted to play this game for a long time and it was on sale for $30 on PS store so I bought it. I have to say the beginning sections made me pretty frustrated but once I understood the combat I was able to get through those sections and now I just really enjoy the game I think it's really great .

The combat is super fun I find the story to be interesting and the characters are cool. Graphically it's not all that next gen but I still think it looks fine I really don't understand all they hate that this game has gotten .

Anyway I'm really enjoying Rise of the Ronin and just wanted to give a shout out for the game, and if you're considering buying it I would definitely recommend it.

Plus I just saw something that said it's probably going to be on one of the free games on PlayStation Plus in July.

People talk about Nioh 3 being Team Ninja's magnum opus, and I love the Nioh games, but they're not the whole package. Rise of the Ronin was the more well-rounded experience, especially when it comes to the world and story. The combat is excellent - I've never felt like reading body language is so important and well-done as a combat mechanic. It really makes you feel like a samurai. And it can be quite challenging at times, especially on the higher difficulties.

Loving it so far

So, after completing the game 100% (haven't done Midnight yet), I will say that there's plenty of good and bad in this game for me personally. Is it as bad as people make it out to be? No, I think it's a lot better actually. But is it as good as Nioh for me (personal opinion)? Well...

The combat is as always, excellent from Team Ninja, and the flow of it is really good, however some things in this one I found to be a bit awkward, such as the different counterspark windows (yes, this can be countered by countersparking with only one and then doing combos with multiple stances, I still don't like how they did it however). I found the meta to be a bit narrower than Nioh or Wo Long IMO, and the build variety is very shallow compared to it, you do get a lot of movesets to play with however it's just that not all of the moves will be equally as useful. To be fair, this is an issue in Nioh and Wo Long as well. Some other minor annoyances were how enemies can combo you when you're out of ki, tbh I just wish they did more damage instead of making me watch an unskippable cutscenes in the middle of combat, however I have this complaint with many games so I won't hold it against Ronin specifically.
For builds like a I already mentioned, this game isn't worth playing it for those alone, Nioh and even Wo Long was many times better in that regard. The combat itself can be kind of build like like I said, but I do wish this game had more build variety with the armor/weapons, on top of also adding more different and unique looking sets.

The side activities in this game were actually really fun, honestly 10/10 idea, they weren't overused, and all the firearms, archery and glider training events were very fun to master. Speaking of which, I liked the horse mechanic however I did find the horse to a bit janky, and I thought the glider was a great idea for traversal in the world along with grappling hook.

For enemies and bosses. Their movesets are in fact really good, however enemy variety in this game is absolutely atrocious. By far the worst out of Team Ninja's games, even worse than Wo Long somehow. In terms of visuals, they all generally look the same and the movesets do start to become very similar after a while, even when there's some variation. The bosses are much more varied than the enemies which is good, however they lack different styles of attacks often like you would see in other games, such as AOEs or something cool to make them visually distinct. Yes, some of the bosses are very anime and they were fun to fight, but I found too many to be too samey yet again. The dojo is an amazing idea and the best thing this game has imo for the combat. Nioh and Wo Long would really have benefited from something like the dojo in Ronin in my opinion.

The visuals are as usual very Team Ninjaey if you will, however I like their style and I think it looks good. In fact many of the environments or NPCs in my opinion in this game look fantastic. The problem however is yet again, everything is far too samey after playing this game for 200 hours. Too many enemies look the same, too many building and too much of the environment is all the same. This wasn't an issue for me in the 1st 100 hours but after a while this game started to get really tedious to me to explore which I never had an issue with in Nioh 3. By far one of the worst parts of this game to me wasn't the exploration in of itself, but the fact that the open world was so samey in this game, so many locations that always just looked the same and so many enemies that were the same. Thank god there's a trick you can do later in the game to make it snow permanently, or rain permanently as that really improved my enjoyment of just looking at something different for once. I think Ronin would of benefited from supernatural elements heavily yes, but even if you're against that, I think more environment and enemy variety even if making it more "grounded" would've been way better. More snow, more wind, more rain, maybe some cool island or mountain sections more. Anything to break up the pace of the same exploration for so many hours.

Character creation is just like with all the other Team Ninja titles, extremely good and one of the best in gaming. Except in this game you can make 2 characters so that's even better. 10/10 as always, only thing lacking is more crazy slider options.

The sound design in this game is great in general like with their other games, but I found the music to be... incredibly lacking personally compared to Nioh or Wo Long. Maybe that's just me but I couldn't think of any memorable music from this game at all really.

The story... oof. Honestly, I'm one of the people who actually likes Nioh and Wo Long's story, and Stranger of Paradise as well, and the story in this game was just absolutely terrible. Their voice acting even in English was great (and of course in Japanese), but the story is not realistic at all and doesn't make any sense at all either. You will betray everyone in the story many times regardless of what you choose and still you will be forgiven every time as if nothing ever happened. The power of friendship I guess... also the two opposing factions go from hating each other to loving each other randomly as well, it's all a complete mess. The main story choices felt useless and it was hilarious seeing how nobody in this game seemed to care at all about them, not really. Also fighting the same bosses 20 times in the main story sure got old real fast... Looking at you, 10th Aritomo and Ito fight in a row. The only good part of the story was the voice acting and some character storylines, but if you're going into this expecting the main story to make any sense... well, it's just utter nonsense lol

So after doing everything in the main game, every bond, every romance, every mission, all the exploration, everything in the dojo, what do I think? I think this game is good, but it was also very mid in many ways that Nioh or Wo Long was much better for me. I know some people prefer this game and that's okay by me, but I simply couldn't tolerate the lack of variety in so many areas after a while of playing. The dojo itself is amazing, best thing in the game by far for me and it's nice to just come back and replay it every once in a while, but I do not personally like the grounded aesthetic this game was going for, and I think it suffered for it. I see myself replaying the dojo or some Midnight stuff occasionally, however the entire game again 100%? No. I'll do it in Nioh 3 but this game was really tedious and I think it's best if you're getting tired of it to just ignore a lot of the side content and focus on the main story and dojo and Midnight difficulty, and some of the more important character bonds and romances, alongside some fun side activities. Way too much of other stuff was too repetitive and mind numbingly boring to be replayable for me. Oh, and I also plan on modding the game more as well, but that's more of a personal thing lol

Also the performance... jesus christ, the performance of this game on PC, and especially Linux for me is absolutely atrocious. By far their worst game performance wise, and while I liked the visuals, I do not think they're worthy of the insanely large game size or the absolutely terrible performance that I had to spend a long time fixing to even be able to play at 60 FPS and not 30 with lag. And I have a good PC, it's just the game that can't run well at all most of the time on Linux, and even Windows apparently struggles much more than console. So if you prefer controller and console it might be worth going for that over the PC version, although the PC version is the only one with mods, some of which I even made myself.

So yeah, that's just my honest opinion after doing everything but Midnight stuff so far, I know some of you may disagree, but I hope I at least made some good points. I like the game more than most games still, don't get me wrong, but it didn't quite reach the peak that is Nioh 2 and Nioh 3 for me.

I'm on midnight mode and keep on dying against Yausuke Sawamura