As an open world action-adventure sport with a interval Japanese setting, Rise of the Ronin has drawn numerous comparisons with Ghost of Tsushima, and the extra that we’ve seen of the upcoming Workforce Ninja sport, the extra outstanding the similarities between the 2 video games have grow to be. It’s no shock, then, that Sucker Punch’s 2020 samurai epic served as very direct inspiration for the Rise of the Ronin improvement group.
That’s as per Rise of the Ronin director Fumihiko Yasuda, who revealed in a latest interview with Automaton that with Workforce Ninja getting down to create its first open world sport, Ghost of Tsushima was one of many video games that the studio took cues from, citing its fight and the extent of analysis that was poured into its Japanese setting.
“Rise of the Ronin is our first open world sport, and Ghost of Tsushima was one of many video games we used as reference, and I personally loved it,” Yasuda mentioned. “I felt impressed by the truth that a sport set in Japan had been researched to such an extent by the builders, and had additionally obtained excessive reward for elements akin to its fight system. On the identical time, I puzzled why we couldn’t launch a sport like Ghost of Tsushima again then. Ghost of Tsushima served nearly as good encouragement for creating Rise of the Ronin.”
In the meantime, Yosuke Hayashi, producer at Koei Tecmo, mentioned that past its similarities to Ghost of Tsushima, Rise of the Ronin additionally options the “distinctive traits” that one would count on to see in a Workforce Ninja sport.
“It’s not that we weren’t aware of Ghost of Tsushima, quite that we predict a very powerful factor is to foster the distinctive traits of Koei Tecmo and Workforce Ninja video games,” he mentioned. “I’m assured that if you play Rise of the Ronin, the sport’s tactile really feel, fight and different elements of ‘Japanese-ness’ will appear totally different and higher when in comparison with different titles.”
Rise of the Ronin is ready to launch completely for PS5 on March 22. Learn our impressions of the sport’s first three hours by means of right here.
In the meantime, Ghost of Tsushima will lastly be launching for PC on Could 16.
