Rise of the Ronin is Workforce Ninja’s second motion recreation at present in growth—Wo Lengthy: Fallen Dynasty (opens in new tab) is coming quickly too—and takes place in nineteenth century Japan close to the top of the Tokugawa interval.
Within the third-person, (possibly) open world recreation, you play as a samurai and “struggle to forge a brand new period for Japan,” in line with the outline for the sport’s trailer, which debuted on the PlayStation State of Play stream at the moment.
The trailer follows a hawk flying by way of populated streets and because it soars as much as reveal the titular ronin character standing atop a cliff. It cuts between some characters in snowy, shiny, and cavernous areas after which has a shot of the ronin using a horse up a hill with a shocking scene of bushes and a bridge within the background. Then it cuts to the ronin pulling out a wingsuit to glide over the water and to town streets under—instantly evoking the type of open-world exploration that Ubisoft goes for in its lately introduced Murderer’s Creed Japan recreation, codename Crimson (opens in new tab).
It is a Workforce Ninja recreation, creators of the Souls-inspired Nioh video games, so finally the trailer slips into the sport’s fight. Rise of the Ronin’s one-on-one duels resemble Sekiro greater than Darkish Souls, however the zoomed-in digicam frames it nearly like a combating recreation. An obvious parry mechanic interrupts an enemy’s swing and opens them up for a ending blow. One other scene sees the ronin whip out a grappling hook to drag himself towards an opponent and slice him with fiery blades. The trailer ends with the ronin taking pictures a solider with a musket and drawing a revolver to complete somebody off—this man clearly is not afraid to make use of one of the best {hardware} on provide.
Rise of the Ronin is a “PlayStation 5 console unique” which implies it will most likely come to PC too. It is due out in 2024, the identical 12 months that Ubisoft is planning to launch codename Crimson.