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[LectureMaster]

Always love Gameranx's contents. They are like a unicorn in the gaming news outlets. Simple and passionate gamers, nothing more.

• Vertigo 2
• KILL KNIGHT
• Sonic X Shadow Generations
• Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
• Anomaly Agent
• Rise of the Rōnin
• A Quiet Place: The Road Ahead
• CONSCRIPT
• Children of the Sun
• Nine Sols

Bonus:

• Enigma of Fear
• Lorelei and the Laser Eyes

 

[DenchDeckard]

F5 indiana jones.

 

[HYDE]

Rise of the Ronin is great. But the open world trash sucks, and there’s too many npcs introduced. Combat is fantastically brutal & gory. Later bosses are extremely difficult, but rewarding for being creative with taking down there assistant enemies first and foremost. This better game was underrated and overlooked by an overrated Dragon’s Dogma 2.

Nine Sols is very appealing, but does it do anything new? Or is it just doing a lot of the same but doing it very well? Can anyone chime in that has played it?

 

[Killer8]

Still playing Rise of the Ronin, it's honestly fantastic as a fan of the Nioh games. It's essentially those games but in an open world format and works surprisingly well. The choices in the story and the social link elements, I suppose if you could call them that, feel just about engaging enough that they add to the game even if they aren't actually that deep.

I feel like people just wrote the game off because of that retard on Youtube making fun of the horse running animation. Yeah, it's not the strongest visually from a technical perspective (the Pro patch does help) but it has a lot of passion put into the Edo period setting.

I had guessed the game would end up on criminally under-rated or "why Rise of the Ronin is secretly genius" tier lists, I just didn't think it would happen so soon.

 

[The Cockatrice]

Lest see. Rise of Ronin, shit. Nine Sols, chinese HK at home with an absolute garbage final boss that ruined the entire game, hence trash. Sonic Gen underrated? Dafuq? It sold well afik for a Sonic game. Banishers, maybe, dunno, it's an AA, heard some decent things about it, but everyone says the level design and quests are dogshit even those that praised the game which feels like a meh in my eye, one day will give it a try when cheaper. Most of them dont seem underrate at all, just very mid games and people are getting tired of mid games. They work well when we have some amazing bombastic aaa stuff, but since that shit is dry, these just ruin your mood.

 

[raduque]

Banishers is pretty damn good. I really enjoyed the demo. I want to pick it up soon.

 

[xrnzaaas]

Banishers is pretty damn good. I really enjoyed the demo. I want to pick it up soon.

Banishers is just too long in my opinion. Would've been better as a 20 hour game, kinda like Vampyr. The world is massive and there are only a few unique skills to use on obstacles and only a few types of activities. That means exploring the world eventually gets boring. Only the side cases are unique (and for most part pretty good, partially because you're allowed to banish living people even if it's not the right thing to do ).

I started by trying to do every activity I could find, but dropped that idea later on. My ingame clock shows about 60 hours with the game and I reckon trying to max everything out would mean another 20.

 

[YeulEmeralda]

Rise of the Rōnin is the kind of game Ubisoft could never make.

 

[TintoConCasera]

Add Earth Defense Force 6 to that list.

 

[coachmcguirk91]

Rise of the Rōnin is the kind of game Ubisoft could never make.

People shit on Ubisoft because of their repetitive world design, but it is their absolutely shit combat that makes their games mediocre. In comparison, ROTR is addicting as fuck because of the combat. I got 100+ hours in that game. Easily my favorite single player game last year

I just wish Team Ninja moved on from their shitty game engine and actually had the time to develop a proper AAA game

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

For those who like Kingdom Hearts (lighthearted whacky story), Mario Odyssey, or Astrobot, Infinity Nikki is a mix of all those, adding an incredible dynamic soundtrack and great dungeons. The exploration is fantastic, second best in class after Zelda (no wonder it's the same director).

Criminally underrated because it's a game aimed at women. The level of attention to detail and open-world design is something Ubisoft, Guerrilla or Insomniac can't even dream of.

 

[reektann]

Children of the Sun is a great sniper puzzle with really unique style. Loved it.

 

[Kotaro]

Rise of the Ronin is so criminally underrated

Go play this gem people

 

[fart town usa]

Rise of the Ronin is a dime. The true 2024 GOTY.

 

[Hypereides]

Add Earth Defense Force 6 to that list.

Been eyeing 5 as of recent. I want to check out what all the EDF! EDF! EDF! ritual chanting is all about.

 

[ChoosableOne]

I'm waiting for the Rise of the Ronin PC port.