Tenchu 360 for US News

Cool. I hope it can restore my faith in the series after the dreadful psp version.

Does anyone know how this was rated in Japan (preferebly Famitsu)?

This series has sucked ever since the first one.

I am happy about this, finally what looks to be the best of the From Software 360 titles is getting a release, the demo was a refreshing change from the Tenchu usual, you actually feel like a trained ninja with superior reflexes and skills. Not just some bloke with a sword and grey hair.

Off topic but why would you want to know Famitsu review scores when its widely known that reviews are bought? The whole point in Famitsu is to have a fat glossy exclusive-filled magazine, not in-depth honest reviews.

I don't bother getting excited about Tenchu games after the first one was such a struggle to enjoy. The control and the collision detection was laughable, or at least it would have been if it hadn't been breaking my stealth-addicted heart so bad... :(

Surely Tenchu is just a combination of Ninja Gaiden and Splinter Cell? So why is it always so dreadful?

I remember seeing a video of this and thinking it looks like a PS2 game

No mention of the game being completely shit? Oh well.

@ jonsaan, don't forget the terrible DS version.

From playing the demo, the visuals are'nt mind blowing but its still nicer than alot of 360 games to date, the animation is nice and smooth moving too and from moves. Plus the distances and backgrounds have been boosted a hell of alot. If you actually play the game, or its demo you'll know that it could'nt have been done on current consoles. Thats not to say that current console Ninja games are bad, Shinobido was fantastic.

What I missed from the demo was the Tenchu series usually wonderful use of music.

bah, I would rather have Shinobido: Way of the Ninja on 360.

Hurrah!

Fuck Tenchu I want Ninja Gaiden 2!

I don't understand why people like this. Oh well, taste as they say...

First tenchu woz cool... Think it went a bit downhill from there tho... hopefully this will bring it back to its former glory :)

/crosses ninja slippers

Ninja gaiden has nothing to do with being a Ninja, well apart from the Real Ultimate Power sense of being a ninja.

Ninja's are soooo 1996.

Not 'The' Clive Dunn surely?

Tenchu Wrath of Heaven was the only enjoyable Tenchu last gen but TBH the game is like Splinter Cell where the games have barely changed from the original.

Tentatively interested. I do enjoy the Tenchu games, though Shinobido superseded it in most ways (though the lack of silly numbers of Stealth Kills saddened my blood-hungry tastes). Hopefully they've learned from it.

Either way, I'll probably enjoy it. It's not at all like Splinter Cell, though. As stealth games go, it's closer to Metal Gear Solid, albeit with far superior levels and a more freeform design (reminding me of the Thief series, which is A Good Thing).


Damn, now I want a new Thief game :(

The problem with Tenchu is the horrible controls and clunky movement.

You hardly "feel" like a ninja when you clumsily bodge your way around the game world. That was one of the things that was great about Ninja Gaiden - Ryu moves like a ninja should.

shame it'll be balls

The level design in the recent ones let it down, too. Far too linear.

That level used in the demo of the first one had me playing and replaying for aaaages. They lost that quality in the others, restricting your path a bit more.

Perhaps they were trying to idiot proof it? Well, if you ask me, there are better ways to do this than cleaving off areas of freedom. It's the same reason I could never get into splinter cell (as well as the clunky animation system)

But still... NEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEENJAAH! And grapplehooks which arbitrarily don't work on some surfaces because they haven't modelled that part of the level even though it's right there and you are very tempted to look around it ftw (they should look at Thief's rope arrows for that... just mark grapple-able surfaces with something recognizably grapple-able)