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.
Get the full list of games (and other stuff) discussed at www.besties.fan. Want more episodes? Join us at patreon.com/thebesties for three bonus episodes each month!
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A Souls-like for Fans of N64-era Mascot Games
Falling in to the Fallout TV Show
Chicken Soup for the Gamers' Soul
Pepper Grinder and Princess Peach, Together at Last
Arise with Dragon's Dogma 2
Unicorn Overlord and a God of War-like You Never Heard Of
The Future of Video Games (In Demos)
We Really (Rogue)Like Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor and Balatro
Final Fantasy VII Rebirth and Helldivers 2 are Battling for Our Time
Persona 3 Reload, Lysfanga, and Some Big Besties News
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is Kinda the Pits
Anomaly Agent and the future of the Resties!
The Grab Bag is Full and it is Only February
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth is Infinite Fun
How we got from Batman to Suicide Squad [Resties]
Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown Starts the Year Out Strong
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora and the Art of Jackfruit Lock-picking (feat. Jordan Morris)
Our big video game predictions 2024 [Resties]
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