We're playing Rise of the Ronin and will post our review soon. In the meantime, we immerse ourselves in the atmosphere of Team Ninja's new role-playing action to discover the main factions of the next, ambitious PlayStation 5 exclusive now close to launch.
The latest interactive experience signed by Koei Tecmo and the Japanese software house that gave shape, among others, to Nioh and Wo Long Fallen Dynasty will make us take on the role of a former assassin in contemporary JapanIt was Bakumatsu, a crucial historical phase to say the least for the land of the Rising Sun due to the landing of the American Black Ships and the progressive 'Westernization' of the country which led to the end of the last legacies of the feudal system.
The events that will outline the narrative outline drawn up by the authors of Team Ninja will be of fundamental importance in the construction of the playful framework of Rise of the Ronin. Over the course of the adventure, players will become involved in the political plots of the dominant factions in the final years of the Tokugawa shogunate.
The deep interactive representation of the Bakumatsu Era offered to us by Team Ninja finds a direct and immediate reflection in the Factions of Rise of the Ronin. The Clan Sabaku driven by Naosuke II e Taka Murayamafor example, will defend the centralized government and its thousand-year-old traditions, while Ryoma Sakamoto e Kogoro Katsura of the faction Tobacco they will try to undermine the established power by forcefully opposing the shogunate. To further fuel the chaos generated by the bitter conflict between the members of the Sabaku and Tobaku clans, the obeythe representatives of Western forces who aim to open Japan to foreign trade following the directives of senior officials Matthew Perry e Rutherford Alcock.
In the kaleidoscopic narrative mosaic represented by the factions of Rise of the Ronin, each secondary character will follow with extreme attention the activities carried out by our alter-ego in an attempt to influence his decisions and, in doing so, succeed in pushing him to espouse the cause of his own faction. It will therefore be up to the players, with the actions performed both during the main campaign and in the exploration of the open world of Rise of the Ronin, to determine the fate of both the hero and the individual factions.