Rise of the Ronin is Assassin's Creed with Killer Combat

The Besties

Leisure, Video Games

4.9 • 5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 March 2024

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Team Ninja has been busy! In the past five years, the studio released Dead or Alive 6, Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, Nioh 2, Stranger of Paradise: Final Fantasy Origin, and Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty. Their latest game, Rise of the Ronin, compiles everything they learned into their most ambitious project: a sprawling open-world samurai adventure set in a recreation of mid-19th century Japan. Rise of the Ronin takes the “something for everyone” approach, blending the exploration and loot systems of recent Assassin’s Creed games with the quick-reflex sword fighting of the studio’s Nioh series. This video game smoothie is quite delicious — if you can stomach the occasional funky chunk of game mechanics. In the back half, we talk about our favorite under-appreciated open-world games.

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0:00.0	So I've been going to the supermarket and getting these like a frozen pizza for when
0:07.2	We're like I'm exhausted or my wife is exhausted and we don't want to deal with cooking and the frozen pizzas are like too small for three people,
0:15.2	although one of the people is my son who's like a little person,
0:18.0	a little child.
0:20.2	So it's not quite enough pizza for us, but like pretty close and he's getting plenty.
0:27.8	So we've been sort of managing it and then I kind of supplement with some cereal.
0:32.2	The other day I went and got like an actual pizza, like a true
0:38.4	pizza pie and brought it home. New York style and which he had never seen like a full pizza pie before.
0:46.0	And it was like a life chanting experience for him.
0:51.0	Yeah, I bet. Can imagine if your entire life is like you've only seen personal pan pizzas and then someone
0:58.6	brings you a fucking like four foot diameter pizza.
1:03.4	He must have thought, I can't imagine that.
1:05.4	He must have thought he shrank.
1:07.0	Or do you think that he feels that there are large versions of everything.
1:13.0	That he's been eating baby size.
1:15.1	So like right now, you're gonna give him the big size
1:18.0	marshmallow or like the real size.
1:21.6	Oh, the real size is like chicken.
1:24.6	You got to man.
1:25.6	Babies go crazy for that shit.
1:27.6	You've never seen it, it's actually hysterical.
1:29.8	Like they will go.
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