This game is so fun to play i have actually nothing to do anymore but am still playing this game im just farming trinkets it feels so satisfying

Word of mouth will improve when it goes on sale. Lot of people wrote the game off for shallow reasons.

I have over 160 hours into the game. Needless to say, I love this game.

I'm happily glad I didn't sleep on this game.

I initially passed this game up because of the reviews. But man they did not give this game a fair shake. Its fantastic! My coworker fell in love with it and highly recommended it. Been playing ever since!

Yeah Rise of the Ronin is a gem

The battle system is years better than ghost of tsushima and I love the parry system so much. Once people actually play it through on a higher difficulty, they will see how awesome the battle system is and a cult following will follow.

Killer Review with a lot of needed context. I appreciate you taking the time to put this together.

Picked it up on your recommendation. It’s way more satisfying than people made it seem. I’m early so I am in the first 5 hours and like the fundamentals. I assume it’ll only get better as I go. It’s team ninja. Thanks for the honest review and all that sifu content.

Team Ninja doesn't miss - best combat developer by far

Loving this game, about 10 hours in with upgrades the combat clicked with all the weapons, stances and timing, very satisfying, think I will get the platinum too

The way the graphics look make me feel like I’m reading a anime manga book if that makes sense. It’s dope as hell. I think it looks good with ray tracing on and still super smooth for me.

This review has gained a sub from me as I too, am having a BLAST being a RONIN. ^_^

It’s going to be taking me two full playthroughs to get everything because I accidentally locked myself on acquiring bond levels with certain characters but for my first play through I went for the most part entirely anti-shogunate but knew what both sides wanted overall. Now on my second playthrough I went entirely pro-shogunate & this games creates an entirely separate few point on how the story is perceived to the player. I basically hit a trunks going back to the past arc to save everyone I wanted from dying but others were still unavoidable but this game is amazing regardless what critics may say. Hopefully, team ninja has some plans to do some dlc content!

Love this game so much, great video and commentary

Im really glad i picked this game up. Only 14 hrs in but ive been having a great time. It was the last physical copy in store also so of course i had to cope lol 😅

That’s why I don’t just go off reviews. If a developer usually pumps out great games like team ninja does, I’m going to give there game a try. No matter what anyone says, then if I don’t like it, next time I probably won’t try it.

I never played Nioh 1 and/or 2, nor Wo-Long and I'm enjoying Rise of the Ronin. I played Ghost of Tsushima which I loved and love Rise of the Ronin more. And the game looks great. I don't know what some are saying the graphics is sub-par.

I really enjoyed your thoughts on Ronin. This was an interesting and thoughtful review. Thanks for the great content. Subbed

I keep playng this game over and over again. Even though it lacks a lot of things the combat, the styles are just sooo addictive. I wonder if there are some secrets in it. I saved ryoma so I wonder what else could you do.

I love this Game and Hope some Coop Modus like ghost of tsushima will come

I LOVE rise of the ronin when I start the game I dont want to stop playing, it is that satisfying.

I love this game, it's so addictive.

You get loot to dismantle it because of upgrade and bond costs and to find better traits it’s kinda self explanatory throughout your play time if you choose the upgrade route

The game is amazing, and the ratings proved that you cant ultimately trust mainstream gaming “journalism” as they seem to only be capable of playing cinematic games these days. I‘ve played for 100+ hours now. More that FF7 for comparison.

The difference between this game and Ghost of Tsushima is that GOT is good as a narrative driven AAA experience, but RoR is more fun as a game where you can get lost in the open world gameplay.

Good day. First of all, it's a very good video. Thank you for spending time to give this game what it honestly deserves. I have a question. There's a title below the 50 master solo dojo. " ??? " Do you know what the name of it is and how to do it? Big thanks if you have time to answer.

20 hours game, I love the deliberate nature of the combat and how quickly one can travel to necessary quests. I’m really loving this game. You should try wanted dead with the new combat update is excellent. I think you’d like it.

Can’t wait to get this game

What's the hairstyle you use to get low hanging curls in the back?

I wanted this game so bad and didn’t get it at launch because of the gameplay I saw smh now ima get it and have to try and play this and stellar blade same time

I was pretty excited to get the "Blue Demon" outfit, just to find out it's red...like wth lol

We need a blade twin dlc where we play as them in America and learn about what they went through or a later period after the story

I don't have this game yet(because of Stellar Blade),but I am getting it.I never let other people's opinions choose whether I get a game or not.😊😊But it does look interesting.

This game is definitely in my top 3 best games of all-time conversations!!! I think that it would be cool if they added an Ultimate Ronin Battle Dojo (with different floors within the dojo) where you have different trials (as you ascend) allowing players to receive powerful/unique content (such as a new class of rare weapons, armor, and accessories) as players complete different challenges (within the dojo)...this mode should be versatile enough to allow players to either play solo (against the gaming A.l. fighters) or against other players (via PvP). This would awesome!!! As an ultimate reward (for players who able to clear the dojo), they should be able to unlock & play a Team Nina created Chapter 4...this would take this already great game, to a whole new level!!!

Only casual gamers who want simple gameplay and eye candy hated it

Really love this game honestly

I just want update to run the game smoothly, the game is all ready kool.

The gameplay and fun factor in this game is superb. Perhaps (if the ps5 pro rumors are true) people streaming with Max graphics settings at 60 fps will get the “the graphics bruh” people to give it a chance.

It’s definitely gone b a DLC there’s certain areas that have ronin security that’s guarding the gate

Persoanlly for me, games like this I like to take my time & go through everything I can on the map before focusing on the main missions. I'm playing through the story twice at this time. On first go around, I got my a$$ handed to me pretty good but as I progressed in the story I got better at taking down all the enemies. I think my main con of this game is that your character, even though you level up and get stronger, your still able to be taken down quite easily by low level random shytheads on the map because everyone has Hyper Armor & can just slash through your attacks un-fazed, THAT is a huge fail on this game. Other than that though, I love the game, it reminds me alot of another game called Tenchu that I played years ago...

I am 45 hours in this game, I have done mostly main missions, a lot of bandit camps and quite a few bond - side missions and I have to say this game is pretty good but I highly doubt that is a masterpiece or even close for that matter. I really love how the game looks, it has an incredible art style, it's very well designed, especially the buildings and the landmarks or cities in general they are some of the best I have ever seen. The combat is super fluid, satisfying and really opens up a lot of possibilities when it comes to personal preference and customization. What I don't particularly like is that the game is pretty much bloated, it's massive, it's has an inexplicable amount of side characters to the point where some of the magic is being lost. While the things that you do in this game are superb, whether is combat, stealth, interactive with the world, gliding etc. I still think that they are not enough to remain interesting in a game that can easily take more than 60 hours and to finish and that inevitably makes the game quite repetitive in my opinion.

Waiting for a sale to buy.

In my opinion you can't really tell how beautiful the game is until you actually are in it and can experience and understand the scale of the beauty.

Rotr is game of the year material if you ask me and the critics made it sound bad. They tried to say that dragons dogma 2 was better lol.

Absolutely love this game and its backdrop . This has been CRIMINALLY dismissed by those that never bothered to experience is breadth and depth, writing it off for no reason other than "Ghost of Tsushima"

As someone who slept on this game because of the reviews. It's actually not a bad game at all. I really enjoyed it.

Best Samurai Game over than GoT.

i'll buy it for 30$. can wait 2 years for that

I feel like they should of went back further like when being a samurai and a ronin was on top instead of putting it towards where the era is ending rise of the ronins story feels like the the number 3 of a sequel instead of the first game

How’d you get that armor set 5:50

I always tell myself that Im just gonna play 1 hour and ended up playing 4 - 5 hours straight.

I don't really care with graphic, as long as the game is good, fun and feel finished/refined (and also doesn't has bullshit feature like microtransaction, battle pass, etc.), I'll gladly buy it.

Just started this game... when does this really pick up? 2 hours in so far. Looking at it with an open mind.

This game had two things against it: dragon's dogma 2 realeased same day and it kept getting compared to sekiro/ghost of tsushima. The game itself isn't bad (minus the stupid nerfing IN A SINGLE PLAYER GAME!!!!) but people kept down playing it while propping up dragon's dogma 2

Are those blue swords in the thumbnail actually in the game?

I put in over 300 hours in Rise of the Ronin ( Having a BLAST ) and I have played and platinum them ALL. Lies of P, Elden Rings, Bloodborne Dark Souls, Demon Souls, Wo Long, GOT, Witcher 3, Fires of Rubicon. I thought GOT combat was good at the time but Rise of the Ronin is BETTER by a long distance. Djisso good job ( You nailed it ) on this review of Rise of the Ronin. Folks who can tell you what's good for you BUT YOU. The number #1 BROWN -NOSE- FightingCowboy stick to Elden Rings reviews ONLY man.

Been saying all of this since launch. People were crying about graphics and cut scene animations, 'Facial are baaaaad.' Man, when are people going to learn that it's all about the core of the gameplay of a video game? I'd rather play a hideous game with engaging core gameplay than a beautiful game that is boring AF.

Honestly I think we DONT need PvP for ROR, but just a better Coop system.

Whenever a game is exclusive to PlayStation this people come out of somewhere who bash this game for nitpick n the reason they showed made no sense. We need to support single player game like this n this people truly want gaming to destroyed. Days Gone, Deiveclub, Infamous Second Son, Killzone, Nioh etc so many game they try to destroy over the most crap take in the world

Great video. The way this game was treated was very similar to Armored Core 6.

How don't you feel the fps drops? It's very noticeable, although I've not had any on fight sequences. It's specially consistently bad in cutscenes.

This game is fun and cool but Nioh 2 is once again a million times better… nothing they have released since then has been as good as that game.

Half way through fixing to beat it and sell it

how do i get handpicked cologne, it wont show it for m, it doesnt show "IT would be nice to go outside for a while"????

It will improve when it releases on pc. Any 3rd party taking a wad of cash to limit their customer base deserves to flop hard.

Bro, they downplayed this game amd i almost missed out. I had an amazing 200hours with this game. The only negative, is there is no more content 😭.

Yess GOT is visually better but I feel like people don't realize that it was repetitive af. Same patch of grass everywhere and the same two trees to make an entire forest, it was not unique at all it was just copy paste assets everywhere. For exemple rdr2 felt like i was in a different place everytime but got felt all the same and the snow biome was also pretty ugly

I really love it! People who complain about the graphics have never touched Nioh :D however, rise of the ronin looks really amazing and the gameplay is totally sick

Rise of the Ronin released on the same day as Dragons Dogma 2. I consider it bad luck. The gameplay and the story are better in Rise.

Toxic gaming critics only gave it a 7

Dragons Dogma 2 hellloooo where forever art thou😂😂😂told folks day one capcom sent out checks cause ain’t no way the reviewers actually played more than 5-10 hours. Kept crying about graphics when DD2 graphics were nearly the same level with 4 animations per character type this situation should be taught in universities everywhere

What? Sekiro came out years ago. How can you say no one said anything about the graphics? They were fine then. People have more expectations for PS5 games. RoR doesn't look terrible imo, but it does feel dated. Looks like a PS4 game, with ok graphics that do the job. Nothing amazing.

Pretty stupid of people to write off a TeamNinja game in the first place. I was skeptical with the open world system since that aint really their forte but they made it work enough that it’s enjoyable. Of course, combat is fun as always. Im having more fun here than DD2, and I really enjoyed that game. Im getting my Nioh itch satisfied here, especially with the enemies actually putting me down when I was mess up.

I want to disagree. I played all their games, and the graphics are not made on purpose they have one of the worst and outdated engines, the katana with a ton of problems soon they will jump to U5 after they finish the next title will release next year from their B team

Same people who hated this game without playing is the same people who buy 2k every fuckin year because it’s sooooo realll and funnn bro 😂😂

Who lied?

Game is amazing, I loved Ghost of Tsushima but I’m enjoying this game more overall the gameplay is just better. Plus I enjoy being able to do co op missions with other players etc and seeing their characters in the real world and fighting them.

27:08 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

Don't compare the graphics to goat of Tsushima.. big difference

2:20 Yep, thank you. That’s what I wanted to hear, I am familiar and I won’t buy it. 🤷‍♂️

How does this compare to Ghost of Tsushima?

At one point you are completely wrong and that is the difficulty. If people have the option to experience the whole game at easy difficulty, it's the perfect entry to learn ALL mechanics. If you then go into hard difficulty, you KNOW all the mechanics, but just have to practise just a little more. If you make only one gigahard difficulty, people will struggle all the time, especially at the beginning, like really hard. This turns off most people. At another point I also highly disagree, which is gear being "obsolete". This is wrong. If the gear doesn't matter at first, it's a good thing, because it puts the focus on the mechanics. If you then want to specialize into a certain playstyle, you can do it. Let's get real here, this was the biggest downside of nioh 1 and 2 where only meta gear builts made the game beatable. Rise of the ronin made the bad things from nioh go away. And I played nioh 2 for more than 1000 hours. I don't want to know how much time I WASTED in the inventory to create builds, only to find out, that only meta really works, full onmyo buffing at the beginning of every harder fight, which became idiotic very fast. The beauty of Rise of the Ronin is, that you can pick just one certain combat "stance", just ONE and become a god at it, no matter the foe and weapon they use, even if it is described as ineffective.

I despise playing against real people in games, all they do is trash it. If they can't make it, they break it. So many amazing, beautiful games have been ruined; resulting in miserable gaming experiences; unplayable.

I have the sekiro game also an I couldn't even get into that game..the fighting mechanics was lame ,the movement of the character..an there was no pop in the graphics at all..

Speak for yourself. I don't want any PVP. That just breaks PVE because of all the adjustments that constantly have to be done because of pvp. At the end of the day the game will be nothing like it was at release because PVP will have to change so much. It happens all the time when games add PVP into a PVE type of game. Which is what this game is. It's kind of funny watching so many games go down the same road

Gear doesn't matter in any of the Souls games. I've see plenty of videos and playthroughs of players beating the game naked and at lvl 1. Also, is the fact that you could be geared up in the souls games and both enemies and bosses would still 1 hit kill you. I like games that don't require players to be too hung up on gear.

Being insulted that a game requires you to be good or get better is pathetic, just slowly increase the level from where you were and redo missions it’s not that hard. If that’s sumn to whine about than respectfully it’s time to grow up cause that mentality is the type of mentality that will have you quitting on life just cause rent was raised 100 dollars. Plus even still you don’t have to have the “best gear” in this game because the gear that’s not masterwork doesn’t cap out so you can still get better stuff, that’s why even in midnight mode you don’t only masterwork items the argument is a mute point there’s multiple acceptable solutions that are available. To top it off why should you expect to have gear your not worthy of anyway it’s meant for the people who are good and accept that degree of difficulty while being able to handle it💀🤷‍♂️

so it feels like nioh and the other knockoff sekiro ( i forgot the name), because i played nioh 1 + 2 + the other one and they all felt the same,. janky and cheap compared to other titles of the genre, just seeing this gameplay gives me flashbacks and is very repelling, the leveldesign stood out by beeing the worst in any game i have experienced, i hoped they would improve on those things but it doesnt seem so

Have more options get criticized, Jesus, people cry about everything, roleplay means to do whatever you want so there is a particular story mode but you can play along certain characters and think they changed sides due to many things, the lack of imagination and real arguments is astonishing. Regarding Sekiro and all of those From Software games really stop it, the west has closed games from Japan because they always despise the competitors, this never changes, the only exception is From Software but there is ko way Baldur's Gae won when FF XVI and Zelda were superior and you know what other game was funnier? Hi Fi Rush.

For what this game offers. It’s better than something like “Battlefield 2042” with a $120 edition but broken on launch. But it does feel like a PS3 game (animations, frames, graphics) upscaled graphics patch to the ps4 then ported over to ps5. Nevertheless, better than what been releasing from AAA studios

No. No one lied about this game. You liked it and that's all well and good. If you ask others who didn't, you'd find that their opinions differ for very good reasons. You don't have to like those reasons, but I also think its immature to call them lies.

Game is a flop tbh. Still same issues of fps lag and LOD issues. Using the same game engine as DW9 and they still don’t have it correct at all. Playing in 4k dips to 24fps when there’s too much going on from weather effects to loading assets etc. Had 8 years and this was what they call “ambitious” seems more like a joke. The combat is fine, but the story is confusing and doesn’t allow you to exactly focus on just one of the linear paths and forces you to play both sides of the fence… that’s just downright awkward as you have fre-enemies strange. Open world has a good approach but poor execution. Forgot to mention as well there’s an AI algorithm that fixes the game itself. The enemies learn your attack pattern and hesitate at the right time so you end up committing mistakes in timing. Tried it in Dojo and Boss fights and all fights are all differently generated as I used a wide variety of different weapons for testing. Also if you guys play this with a pro controller you can literally mop the enemies since you can bind buttons transition techniques with no slow reflexes, and have literally constant ki from passive effects like flash attack and violent gail.

It's a lie.. even the the graphics.. it's like your playing ps3

Its a huge letdown like Wo Long. They scrapped the great mission based level design for a mid ubisoft fetch quest type open world (ubisoft games you can coop the whole world like farcry). The coop is basically just grinding levels you beat instead of playing the story with friends.... there are literally 2 teammates with you yet you cant coop without beating the mission. The combat is okay...I mean it gets stale really quick unlike nioh. Dont get me started with the story... I need to have knowledge of Japanese history to know any of these people (Yakuza Ishin was similar).

wolong way better the combat is not as good too hard to deflect ha

I really like the game.. it’s a solid 7.5 to me.. I’m only taking away for the story which i thought was lacking .. I like the combat.. but nioh has a step up on that!! Nioh 2 to me is a 9….its my favorite combat of any game!!

this game is AMAZING! the ppl that complain have never played nioh or wu luan or any other from the company lol

Got bored of this after 20 hours decided to play Dragon dogma 2..300 hours later and after platinum I'm glad I returned ronin

there is another very similar game outside which is Hogwarts Legacy. It has the same flaws like boring side quests, tedious story line and even worse battle system, and this game got 9 from ign. Its too ridiculous to me that media rate two similar games with different judgement and they are not even pretending to hide their preference and bias.