Tenchu Senran: stick to the shadows gameplay vid

I remember that I once dodged a whole stage’s worth of dumb samurai guards and badly-rendered (by next-gen standards) female geisha sentinels just so I can get that “grand master” rank when Tenchu Fatal Shadows evaluates you at the end of your mission.

It’s rewarding.

An annoying bit about it though is that you can only “stealth kill” a guard (sometimes two guards) right on the spot. After they’re dead you’d have to drag their corpses from the spot where you killed them to a nice shadowy area so that other passing guards/civilians won’t get alerted by the dead bodies. You had to pre-plan your run through a stage, and most of the fun came from replaying that stage to perfection.

Nice that the game tries to teach you to clean up after yourself, but it’s bad (in some people’s opinion) that in-game, a Ninja doesn’t have enough foresight to work around corpses. From Software offers a nice solution to that past gameplay peeve, in Tenchu Senran they call it “stick to the shadows gameplay,” some of us here at QJ call it, “drag ’em before you kill them.”

Sweet. Now if only they fixed the camera… (you do know that we’re saying this “fix thing” so that we don’t sound like we’re “fan-boying” right?)

Via Game Trailers

I remember that I once dodged a whole stage’s worth of dumb samurai guards and badly-rendered (by next-gen standards) female geisha sentinels just so I can get that “grand master” rank when Tenchu Fatal Shadows evaluates you at the end of your mission.

It’s rewarding.

An annoying bit about it though is that you can only “stealth kill” a guard (sometimes two guards) right on the spot. After they’re dead you’d have to drag their corpses from the spot where you killed them to a nice shadowy area so that other passing guards/civilians won’t get alerted by the dead bodies. You had to pre-plan your run through a stage, and most of the fun came from replaying that stage to perfection.

Nice that the game tries to teach you to clean up after yourself, but it’s bad (in some people’s opinion) that in-game, a Ninja doesn’t have enough foresight to work around corpses. From Software offers a nice solution to that past gameplay peeve, in Tenchu Senran they call it “stick to the shadows gameplay,” some of us here at QJ call it, “drag ’em before you kill them.”

Sweet. Now if only they fixed the camera… (you do know that we’re saying this “fix thing” so that we don’t sound like we’re “fan-boying” right?)

Via Game Trailers