- Publisher: Koei Tecmo Games
- Release Date: Mar 10, 2025
- Also On: PlayStation 5
- Summary:
- Developer: Team Ninja
- Genre(s): Action Adventure, Open-World, Role-Playing, Action RPG
- # of players: Up to 3
- Cheats: On GameFAQs
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Score distribution:
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Positive: 10 out of 18
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Mixed: 7 out of 18
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Negative: 1 out of 18
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Mar 6, 2025Rise of the Ronin is still a great adventure on PC, with a great combat system and RPG touches. Although technically it improves on what was seen on PS5, it doesn't make a huge difference compared to the console version, and the aspects that were weak there are still present here, such as the archaic facial animations, along with new bugs.
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Mar 6, 2025The PC port of Rise of the Ronin proves to be solid and highly scalable, thanks to a wide range of graphical options that allow for customization across different setups. However, preset adjustments are necessary to achieve the right balance, and some settings in the options menu feel less intuitive than expected. Since this test was conducted on a pre-release build, improvements may come with the day one update, and we genuinely hope they do.
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Apr 4, 2025Rise of the Ronin is a challenging open-word souls-like with versatile and dynamic combat and an unused setting.
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Apr 23, 2025Rise of the Ronin does a great job at combining combat and stealth, improved by a vast array of weapons to wield. The characters are memorable, as are the locations, showing off bakumatsu Japan. Regrettably, performance issues sour the experience.
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Aug 9, 2025Rise of the Ronin is far from a perfect game, but it proves that Team Ninja still knows how to craft a thrilling action experience. If you’re looking for an engaging story or beautiful graphics, you won’t find those here. However, if you need an action RPG to keep you occupied for the next few weeks, Rise of the Ronin should do the trick.
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Apr 8, 2025Rise of the Ronin is, from many perspectives, Koei Tecmo's most ambitious adventure and its arrival on PC should be celebrated for providing even more enthusiasts of the theme and fans of the studio with access to it.However, between mistakes and successes in the adaptation, here we have yet another proof that PC ports require a lot of attention during their creation.
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Mar 14, 2025Another fumbled PC port blighted by poor optimisation and unpredictable performance issues.