Rise Of The Ronin’s Gameplay Trailer Has Me So Hyped

The Recreation Awards was fairly the packed showcase of upcoming video games. It ran a bit over three-and-a-half hours, in any case, so it’s simple to overlook a lot of the night time’s bulletins and divulges. Nonetheless, one it is best to completely hold your eye on is Crew Ninja’s Rise of the Ronin, which obtained a brand new gameplay trailer exhibiting off the fight and characters. And on the finish of it, the studio introduced that it’ll launch on March 22 for PS5.

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This new trailer is emotional, action-packed, and thrilling in methods nice samurai tales are typically. We don’t know precisely who’s who right here—although historic figures like modernization advocate Ryoma Sakamoto and the mental Shoin Yoshida make cameos—however we see that there’s a warfare occurring between factions that’s inflicting loss of life and destruction. All through the trailer, there’s monologuing about time’s perpetual march, remorseless violence for beliefs, and “altering the river’s stream.” Within the background are explosions, hearth, a swelling drum beat, and clashing metal. It’s all very thrilling.

However what are we really seeing? Nicely, if I needed to scale back it to its elements, it’s giving Ghost of Tsushima and Nioh in an Ubisoft-like open-world atmosphere. To that final level, Crew Ninja mentioned in a PlayStation Weblog submit that Rise of the Ronin is its “greatest sport thus far.” Our protagonist, presumably the ronin (masterless samurai) of the title, runs via darkish caves to skirmish with armored warriors, soars throughout villages to carry out katana takedowns, and parries metal earlier than firing his varied weapons. This seems very very similar to Nioh 2, which is smart contemplating Crew Ninja made each video games. However as an alternative of limiting itself to the Souls style, because the studio’s executed with its final video games (together with Wo Lengthy: Fallen Dynasty), Crew Ninja simply provides you Nineteenth-century Edo Japan and says, “Right here, go discover.” Why, sure please!

A story of the Tokugawa Shogunate’s demise

Crew Ninja director and president Fumihiko Yasuda spoke a bit extra about Rise of the Ronin’s narrative underpinnings on the PlayStation Weblog. Yasuda mentioned the sport takes place throughout the closing moments of the Tokugawa Shogunate, the army authorities established throughout the Edo interval that stored the nation in its feudal state, which was largely marked by stagnation and oppression. Our protagonist, someway linked to lots of the period’s icons, will make decisions that’ll both align with or insurgent in opposition to these characters and their allegiances.

Whereas this can be a samurai story via and thru, swords aren’t your solely weapons. Since this happens throughout the tip of the Edo interval (which dovetails into the Meiji period that introduced again imperial rule and extra weapon imports), Rise of the Ronin provides you with an assortment of weapons, from rapid-firing pistols to matchlock-looking rifles. Yasuda mentioned there’s a “big selection” of drugs within the sport, together with a grappling hook and hold glider for stealth takedowns and fast traversal. Like in Tsushima, there’s additionally a horse you possibly can trip.

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Rise of the Ronin launches on March 22 as a PlayStation 5 unique. As you’re in all probability changing into accustomed to by now, it’ll run you $70 when it comes out. There’s additionally a Deluxe Version model that’s $10 extra if you would like some further goodies, like a digital artwork ebook and soundtrack, outfits, weapons, and extra.