Team Ninja's next samurai outing, Rise of the Ronin, will take more from the Nioh series and Wo Long: Fallen Destiny than first expected. The developer has confirmed the game will feature an in-depth character creator and the ability to play with up to four players in online co-op during the game's main story missions.
The news was confirmed by Q&A information on Rise of the Ronin's official website (thanks, PSU), although it remains sparse. Players who don't want to face the dangers of war-torn 1800s Japan can "join up to three others to experience the game's main story missions in online co-op. Note that a PlayStation Plus membership is required to play online, and there is no PVP combat."
Rise of the Ronin will release on 22nd March on PS5; the game recently became the subject of controversy when director Fumuhiko Yasuda compared the teachings of Shōin Yoshida to Socrates. Yoshida's work was used to fuel Japanese nationalism, with a right-wing segment of the government using it to argue for an eventual invasion of Korea. Sony insists that the game's Korean cancellation has nothing to do with Yasuda's comments, claiming that it never intended to release the game in that region.
Are you excited about cooperative carnage in Team Ninja's upcoming Rise of the Ronin? Will you design a custom character slavishly or run with a default option? Let us know in the comments section below.
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This is very cool. Surprised it wasn't shown at all at the recent State of Play.
I have rise and dragons dogma pre ordered, rise is definitely going to be played first.
Oh I kinda enjoy creating characters in a game. But if it's as hard as nioh and wo long, I might not be into it.
This game just keeps sounding better and better to me. It's a Day 1 for me.
I'm actually struggling to keep up with all the games I want.
“never intended to release the game in that region” geez, sounds like a big screw you to Korean gamers
Does the mean we can pick gender too, or is only male because of "historical accuracy"
As much as I would like to play this DD2 is first for me, hopefully it turns out good though
@TwoDents I genuinely didn't have much fun with the first game since it was pretty boring imo, but fighting monsters and climbing them like SOTC was easily the best part of it. I'm hyped about DD2 since it just straight up seems like a remake and what the devs truly wanted to do that they couldn't in the first due to limitations.
Aslong as the difficulty isn't similar to Nioh and Wo Long then it's fine.
I don't even know, I might be alone with my opinion but it doesn't seem like such a good idea to me. This is going to be a story and primarily character-centric game, am I right? It's like character creation could have been in Horizon or God of War.
Weirdly this makes me less keen. A game that is character driven with a voiced protagonist AND still has a creator character?
That seems quite a strange combo to me for a serious dramatic setting. I didn't love the look of the trailer protagonist, but... God of War, Horizon, The Witcher, Ghost of Tsushima, Jedi etc, KCD, Assassin's Creed, GTA the list goes on for big, high quality games where the character is the character, and do with them what you will.
Has me worried that this going to be more 'Saints Row Samurai' 😵😅
Seems odd that co-op, even in a specific way, wasn't shown as a dedicated feature before now. Makes me a little more interested, although I don't anticipate any of my friends getting this.
Ronin looks cool overall but I'm still not super jazzed about it. Probably wait for it to come to Plus in a year or two.
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Yeah same I still haven’t got round to finishing dark arisen yet.
Will be playing rise of the ronin first, also will be getting Hi fi rush and battlefront classic collection day one as well. Also will be going through FFVII rebirth
Hmm not too happy with these choices myself. Was looking forward to this game but co op multiplayer seems a strange choice. Could be closer to suicide squad than GoT
Please don't ruin this game by making it casual friendly. Stick to your principles Team Ninja, you are the masters of combat and your biggest fans enjoy the difficulty.
@breakneck yep agreed. I went from being uninterested to being interested but still not sold as I don’t feel I’ve seen enough to warrant a day one purchase. Usually games are showing too much, but this one is almost afraid to look good.
I'm starting to believe that Rise of Ronin is actually the Ghost of Tsushima sequel Sony was hoping to release but couldn't, and I'm not complaining lol
I’m just glad the game has a difficulty option. If it was another “soulslike” then I wouldn’t have been interested.
So, does that mean that it's only the missions that can be done in co-op, not any of the open world stuff?
I'm not 100% sure what to think of this game. I loved GOT and was intrigued by this games time period and apparently realistic setting. On the other hand, I've never played a TN game before and noticed an enemy in a trailer that looked straight out of RE4. 'Realistic'? Like all games now, I'll see what the reviews say before buying.
Nah.i will stay with the main storyline with the original protagonist.and the same campaign i seen on the trailer.word up son
@breakneck I have the impression it’s not ready to be released
@Bentleyma Everything I’ve read is pointing toward that, yes. It’d be nice to have some proper clarity though!
It's TN and they (the new TN) have been good since Nioh, so I'm hyped for this. Will try co-op with my SO since she enjoyed GoT.
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