According to the critics, the game features a fantastic combat system that blends tactics and strategy into a satisfying mix that is easy to learn but difficult to master.
With a pedigree of the Ninja Gaiden series, Dead or Alive, Nioh and Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty, Team Ninja’s Rise of Ronin has been one of the year’s most anticipated releases. Well, the game is on the horizon and the reviews have finally dropped…and it might seem that the developers may have missed the mark a little bit this time.
According to the critics, the game features a fantastic combat system that blends tactics and strategy into a satisfying mix that is easy to learn but difficult to master. However, everything around that seems to be less appealing with a convoluted story, checklist-y and bloated open-world, and plenty of junk loot that takes time and attention away from what is more important.
Developer: Team Ninja
Rating: 18+
Genre(s): Action RPG
Platform(s): PS5
Rise of the Ronin Review Roundup
Here are some reviews and first-look articles for Rise of the Ronin from around the web. At the time of publishing this article, the score for this game was 75 per cent on Opencritic and 76 per cent on Metacritic.
Mufaddal Fakhruddin has been writing about games and technology for the past 15 years. He has lost count as to how many reviews he has written over the years, but he is sure headphone reviews make up at least 70% of that.