Developed by Koei Tecmo's Team Ninja, Rise of the Ronin is an open-world samurai action RPG set in the final years of the Edo period.
Rise of the Ronin was the best breath of fresh air I needed when it comes to feudal Japan and sword fighting. Playing a game where it’s a mix of Dark Souls, For Honor and a splash of Shadow of Mordor. I would be recommending this game to those who love Japan’s history and sword fighting, but just on the PS5. The reason is that this game killed my 3070, and I’ve had to regress to continue playing the game. I would have tested it on the Steam Deck, but I’m not willing to lose that too.
So, play this game on the PS5, but if you don’t have one, you can play it on PC. Just make sure it’s a Super edition or a 4080 just to be safe
Rise of the Ronin is an open world action RPG set in mid-19th century Japan, from the developers behind the Nioh franchise of action games.
Ahead of Rise of the Ronin launching on Steam today, RPG Site had a chance to talk to Yosuke Hayashi, Producer and Executive Vice President at Koei Tecmo, and Fumihiko Yasuda, Development Producer & Head of Team Ninja, about the PC version and more.
Now I hope they start developing Nioh 3! Those are my personal favourites. I loved Rise Of The Ronin but the openworld isn't as challenging as the close combat levels of the Nioh series in my opinion. I would love more Nioh a.s.a.p. ;)
Unreal game couldn't get into it at first but wow its great
Solid game
I’m enjoying the game a lot, but in no way is it a 9. Incredibly mid open world, and performance is rooouggghhh. Looks like a mid gen ps4 game. Which is not to say you can’t have a lot of fun, the combat is great, story is interesting. But a 9? No. Unless your only metric as a reviewer is how much fun you’re having which is entirely subjective. But from a reviewer I expect them to take into account things like performance and design.
Mmm I'd give it about 7.5. I really enjoy it. The combat is what really saves it for me. The world is pretty boring for the most part but it is easy to run through quests and missions and jump from right to fight to stay engaged. Frame rate is ok but I'm playing with vrr so only occasional showdown. Comparing it to dragons dogma it's miles better. Playing dd2 at 30 fps with motion blur is really taxing on my eyes. Overall it took about 40-50 hours before I got bored with Rise of Ronin. I'm about 20 hours into dd2 and am really missing the combat from rotr and already getting bored from the lack of challenge and variety in enemy
Just got it in the mail and enjoyed the first hour and a half