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What happened to this great series? Tenchu 1-3 were some of the best stealth games ever made.
there was a tenchu 3?
I always remember playing tenchu 1, it was kinda short but the music was superb. tenchu 2 looked better, had better mechanics, but strangely most of the levels had no music, as i recall.
>>333813452
4 also
Wrath of heaven is a bullshit spec.
>>333813509
just googled it, nice
gotta emulate it
>>333813513
whats your prob with it?
>my face those shorthaired Kunoichis with Mini-Yukata and sexy as fuck eye-shadow and pale skin in Tenchu 3
My dick was off the hooks, I sometimes peeked up their skirts to fap.
I replayed tenchu 1 half a year ago. I was blown away by the atmosphere and gameplay. Music is incredible.
I especially liked that however weird and slow the controls were there was a move for every situation. Making everything very methodical if you got good enough.
No other tenchu ever did it for me because it lost the methodical controls.
>>333813589
Any instakill mechanic is retarded desu, made the game trivial as fuck.
Was a fun game regardless of that though.
>>333813641
can you recommend it? i really liked tenchu 1 and 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuatOQOTVNw&list=PLC97F8247662DD064&index=10&nohtml5=False
>>333813697
It's alright but the story is kinda shitty with Rikimaru going full Naruto Mode at the end.
Wrath of Heaven also as a unique Character that you can unlock that uses that Chiropractic to dispose of his enemies.
Tenchu 4 on the other hand was pretty shitty though, while they managed to make Rikimaru look pretty bad ass from a character design standpoint it dropped the ball entirely on Ayame.
>played the fuck out of tenchu z
> would play a multiplayer game similar to it in a heartbeat
>>333813452
>>333813697
Tenchu 3 is great. Excellent level design, good music and all around nice gameplay.
>defeat this crazy hambeast
>suddenly insane karate demon appears and kicks the shit out of Rikimaru
Tenchu 4 on Wii is fucking good.
As much as I love Tenchu, I always preferred Shinobido because it gave you more opportunities to play in a truly sneaky ninja kinda way, with how much more dynamic the AI and base mechanics are. Also had more positions from which you could do stealth kills, which was pretty cool.
Was a little disappointed with the sequel on the Vita though.
>>333813875
the music in this game was off the charts good and not one sequel was able to top it since then
one of the key reasons why I think Tenchu 1 > Tenchu 2 is because of the music, of which 2 had almost none of
I always wanted a Tenchu/Hitman hybrid where you could sneak with disguises and shit. Like Ayame posing as a prostitute or Rikimaru pretending to be a new bodyguard or something.
>>333814667
>Kung-Fu's the shit out of you
>Drop Health Potion
>Picks it up and Drinks it
>My face when
>>333814667
>get his health down to 20
>the motherfucker has secret potions
That shit triggered the fuck out of me. Good music in the fight though.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wU6odaJDpkM&nohtml5=False
>>333812737
Tried to change too much and appeal to a different market. Tenchu 3 is the highlight of the series but Fatal shadows while still being okay just didn't feel right to play. Tenchu Z was a monotonus grind of a game but if you had friends it was okay.
I'd play a new game in a heartbeat if they moderned it up and actually had some decent ai./
>>333815186
>Tenchu 3
>Highlight
I disagree, Tenchu 2 was much better both plot and location wise. Every character had his own Levels and Sidestories that all climaxed at the end which let to different Point of Views.
Like when you play Rikimaru you never confront Tatsumaru and you just run into Ayame having killed him and giving you Izayoi, playing Ayame would give you her point of view which had you infiltrate the ship and fight Tatsumaru. All in all if you wanted to experience the entirety of the Story you would be forced to play all characters. Wrath of Heaven was almost the same for everyone aside Tesshu, only dialogue differed between Ayame and Rikimaru and it seems That Rikimarus Story is canon anyway, what I liked though was that different difficulties actually gave you some new cutscenes, like Onikage being resurrected again after you defeat Tenrai.
>>333815042
The composer also did the music for Rurouni Kenshin. Shit is fucking gold.
>>333815186
> Tenchu 3 is the highlight of the series
yeah, no
>>333815458
I won't disagree on the plot but 3 was more fun to play for me. I enjoyed Tesshu a lot as a character.
But hey opinions.
>Tenchu 1
>Mission 9
>Just cheesing your way to the top of the castle with the grappling hook and avoiding the whole level.
Good times.
>>333815621
The last two Levels were a fucking abomination holy shit.
First you need to run to the end of the Level which was littered with enemies and few places to hide and then you end up fighting Onikage.
As if that wasn't enough after you finished that level you got thrown into the next Level and if you died there you would need to restart the last and current Level again. Those Levels were about Ressurection Leaf and Healing Potions stacking.
>>333815928
Git gud. I can run that level with nothing on me and finish it just fine. There are health potions all over the place. And the sneaking isn't even that hard in that map. The sneaking is hardest in level 8, where getting spotted has you fucked.
>>333815928
>Ressurection Leaf and Healing Potions stacking.
I remember abusing the absolute shit out of grenades as a kid, you could stun lock most bosses with them.
>>333812737Does he kill her?
What about Z?
>>333812737
>What happened to this great series?
Gonna shamelessly plug my blog here because I've a LOT to say on the series: http://asiplaythem.tumblr.com/tagged/tenchu
Basically what happened (if I remember correctly) is that Sega obtained the rights after Wrath of Heaven and didn't know what to do with it, farming it out to one or two third party studios. Then From Software got the rights afterwards and tried to do something weird with the Wii, which didn't do amazingly well.
But, considering how well From Software is doing with the Souls series, they could very easily be open to rebooting or opening up Tenchu again. I REALLY hope they do and go for something semi-open world following on from MGSV's success in design.
>>333818143
From Software was shit before Miyazaki came. They can't do anything properly without him.
>>333818291
What is Armored Core what is Kings Field
>>333818143
Agreed. That's if From Software ever gets their own collective heads out of their asses and starts making games that aren't ____Souls.
>boss fights in a stealth game
WHY
>>333818291
>>333818469
Well, I think they're wrapping up with Souls once III has it's inevitable DLC. For the time being at least. I think the idea bucket is starting to run dry and they seem to have the rationality to stop when they're ahead.
They could literally put out deep fired shite and slap "FROM THE CREATORS OF DARK SOULS" on the front and it'd sell millions. Like, they could reboot Tenchu using the same engine, maybe adapt the controls to something similar, call it "stealthy ninja Dark Souls", and do all sorts of whacky shit during development with the confidence in knowing it'll sell buckets.
>>333814762
The final boss is complete bullshit though since it expects you to have trained your combat skill.
>>333819923
Tenchu would adapt extremely well to something like the Dark Souls control scheme. The series already had backstab mechanics. Would need some work to get the Grappling Hook and such working comfortably though.
>>333814741
No its not
>Stupid wii controls.
>no grappling hook.
>>333814762
Shinobido was done by some of the founding members of Tenchu I think.
Also the comedy script in WOH (I think)
>Bloody awesome!
Capture asking for images with sandwiches
>showing hamburgers
What do I do?
>>333818560
At least you can cheese em with mines, grenades and sticky bombs like a true ninja. One of the things that Shinobido did a lot better, even though it still has em, but a lot less and the arenas are a lot larger and there's even more tools you can use to avoid direct combat as much as possible.
>>333819992
>not taking a shitload of mines with you and turning the entire arena into a deathtrap
Do you even ninja?
He was still shit though, I agree. Took me quite a few attempts to pull it off properly and he felt really out of place.
>>333820127
>Shinobido was done by some of the founding members of Tenchu I think.
Yep, Aksys made Tenchu 1&2 (and Way of the Samurai).
>>333813667
>Any instakill mechanic is retarded desu, made the game trivial as fuck.
it literally drops your HP to 1 and the game is about stealth and then you get it by the end
>>333820202
The problem with Shinobido's final boss is that he passes over mines without triggering them meaning that you have no choice but to slowly chip away at his health with your sword.
>>333820559
Huh? I used mines and home-brewed gas grenades to defeat him. Unless I'm thinking of a different boss.
>>333820061
Darks Soul's combat is literally a slower version of WoH's combat, so yeah, it would work well.
>What happened to this great series
First, releasing TenchuZ exclusively on the fucking xbox360, and after that QTEs. RIPIP Tenchu.
>>333821018
>a slower version of WoH's combat, so yeah, it would work well.
No it wouldn't
Stop trying to hamfist dark shit into everything
>>333821589
>TenchuZ exclusively on the fucking xbox360,
What the fuck were they thinking?
>>333812737
I loved Tenchu, but they've aged like milk.
>>333818291
>From Software was shit before Miyazaki came
What is Otogi, King's Field and Armored Core?
Get the fuck out of here, it's obvious you're one of those faggots that jumped on the bandwagon once the Souls games became popular.
>>333821939
Apparently Microsoft was one of the publishers, so that might have something to do with it. Though they also made Chromehounds;_;a 360 exlusice without any Microsoft involvement, so there was definitely something wrong in their heads at the time.
>>333821018
>>333821901
Hmm, I'm not entirely sure Tenchu's combat is like Dark Souls, but I could see them taking Bloodborne and adding directional attacks on top of the simple combo system and it working gorgeously.
Likewise, making boss battles about taking a few swipes, then dodging and running away for a sneak attack before they wreck your shit would fix so many problems the series always had.
>>333821939
The Xbox seemed like the big winner of the console war when they made that choice. But still, there's no excuse for them not releasing SOMETHING on the PS3 by the end of it's cycle. Not even HD remasters came out in the end.
>>333821589
>TenchuZ exclusively on the fucking xbox360
So many great Japanese games last gen that fell to obscurity because fucking MS was moneyhatting half of Japan.
I'm glad that Xbone is such a failure they're not even relevant in Japan anymore. Shame damage's already been done.
I fucking love the music in these games.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zuatOQOTVNw&list=PL8DE85A85B2F3BCC4&index=10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQIYoiKZ5Oo&list=PL8DE85A85B2F3BCC4&index=9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpPLGtG2Nk8&list=PL8DE85A85B2F3BCC4&index=14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XjFuk5_xCSE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vvd4n0ffkxk
>>333812737
what game is this from? I don't remember Rikimaru ever having to kill a titty monster geisha
>>333822918
If the geishas spotted you, guards would be alarmed. But it's true that you could never hold geishas like that.
>>333814936
There was a broken item in Tenchu 1 that transformed you into a Geisha/Guard
>>333814936
>Ayame as a prostitute
Why do you have to do this to my dick?
>>333822918
Looks like someone drew a red kunoichi from WoH from faulty memoryor intentionally made her sexier because that's what people like to do
>>333814936
>Ayame posing as a prostitute
You mean the canon Tenchu 3 dub?
>>333814936
JUST.
>>333822462
>Hmm, I'm not entirely sure Tenchu's combat is like Dark Souls
No its fucking not
You have block
and you have 1 or 2combos
and some special attacks
and primarily inventory management
its not roll and shild bash souls
Why did Samurai and Ninja stop being cool? I remember there being quite a few Ninja and Samurai themed games in the 5th and sixth generation, but now it seems like they are almost non existent.
Acquire and Koei seem to be some of the few developers that still occasionally make games with these settings, but outside of them Nioh seems to be the only other game about ancient Japan that is coming out anytime soon (though I guess team Ninja is pretty much just Koei now anyway).
I'd kill for a new Tenchu or Shinobi game.
>>333825209
The 2000s, more precisely, after the war in Iraq. Give it a moment of thought.
>>333825371
Do you mean all the shitty military shooters? Yeah, I guess that makes sense. Well that and it seems like so many good Japanese developers either aren't making games anymore or they've moved on to mobile garbage.
Sad times.
>>333825371
No, I'm going to make you spell that implication out.
Tenchu Z was the shit, would give a testicle to get a new one
>>333825772
where have we seen black hooded figures doing not very nice things on tv nowadays?
Weren't there a spiritual sequel to the Tenchu series? Shinobido or something like that? Watched the gameplahy video of the game and it was literally Tenchu but with some simplified mechanics for modern players.
![maxresdefault[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/cnoPqgO.jpg "maxresdefault[1].jpg")
>>333822918
Titty monster is from Shadow Assassins. The last Tenchu game if I recall.
I really hope FROM give the franchise another go. If they still own it that is.
>>333812737
tenchu 2 was GOAT
>>333825736
"Shitty" military shooters aren't the problem, they always existed and some of them were even pretty good, the problem is that once CoD 4 happened figuratively everyone started to flock to that very specific kind of game as if they were flies attracted towards a hot steamy turd, killing a few genres in the process. That, and the 2008 financial shitstorm forcing a lot of devs to play it safe. The decline wasn't instantaneous, but rather moderately paced and steady.
What I don't get is what made ninja so pupular in the first place. The only thing thing I know for sure is that the fad is at least as old as the 90s.
>>333826026
That game is from 2005 or so.
>>333826026
Yes and we've been talking about in this very thread >>333814762
SODOMAYHEEE
>>333826174
>tfw this game is completely fucked if you try Emulate it
Shit sucks.
How is Way of the Samurai?
>>333826174
>you will never break someone's arms, then turn their head backwards and watch them try to talk
why is she so perfect?
>>333826539
Why is she so ugly in 1?
>>333826026
I only played the vita one and it just wasn't that great. Though I hear the ones they released on the ps2 are much better, I think they only came out in Europe and Japan though.
>What I don't get is what made ninja so pupular in the first place
This was probably a result of Japanese culture becoming more popular in the West after the 80s I assume. I imagine shows like TMNT and ancient Japan themed anime played a large role in making martial arts and ninja weaponry seem cool to kids. I also remember a lot of kids being into the genesis Shinobi games and the nes Ninja Gaiden ones (I'm pretty old).
>>333826323
Great series. Incredibly underrated. I mean they're kind of low budget, but they're one of the few games were your decisions actually seem to matter. They also have a ton of replay value if you're into wanting to see all the endings and unlocking all of the customization items. If you own a ps2 start with the first one. If you don't, then 3 and 4 are up on steam.
>>333827070
Also meant to reply to >>333826132
>>333827070
>ancient Japan themed anime
I can't think of any of those that are from the 80s/90s and depict ninja in a realistic way.
>>333827316
>I can't think of any of those that are from the 80s/90s and depict ninja in a realistic way.
I can't think of any piece of media that portrays ninjas realistically. At best it portrays them as somewhat realistic assassins, but that wasn't really what they were about.
>>333827532
What were they about then? Intel gathering?
>>333827616
Just watch Ninja Scroll to get the gist of it.
>>333827316
I wasn't specifically referring to only ninja. I mean I know anime like Kenshin, Ninja Scroll and Ronin Warriors had a large influence on me being into ancient Japan and samurai/ninja themed things. Definitely not realistic though, but then again I wouldn't call Tenchu realistic either with all the supernatural stuff going on.
>>333827616
Yes. Just "normal" spy shit generally. Infiltrating enemy encampments to gather intelligence, spread misinformation and sometimes sabotage or assassinate someone.
Here's one of the old ninja manuals, just a glance at the table of contents should give you a rough idea:
http://gen.lib.rus.ec/book/index.php?md5=9F7EC4CD105CAE9E0072381EDF468269
>>333827708
>>333827776
Alright, I'll check those out.
>>333827907
Is that the whole book? I've been looking for that shit on the net for a long while, is that site you linked by chance blacklisted on google or something?
Also thanks m8s.
>>333828096
The whole thing. Was originally looking for the Shoninki, no luck on that sadly (without paying that is). And I think the site might be blacklisted on google, I only found it via the Meta Library. Lots of interesting stuff on there though.
>>333826091
Was Shadow Assassins any good? It's the only Tenchu game I never played? Worth tracking down? Does it have any issues running on a wii u?
>>333826323
Very nice, shitty graphics but sweet gameplay, 3 and 4 came out for PC
>>333826174
It's Sadame you twat
>>333826539
Tenchu 3 had the best Ayame of all Tenchu games, cute and sexy as fuck at the same time. No wonder Onikage fell in love with her.
>>333828539
A fucking Zeon brooch?GAS THE NEWTYPES
>>333828806
>brooch
That's her hair m8
>>333828834
What.
>>333827070
>They also have a ton of replay value if you're into wanting to see all the endings and unlocking all of the customization items. If you own a ps2 start with the first one. If you don't, then 3 and 4 are up on steam.
>>333828334
>Very nice, shitty graphics but sweet gameplay, 3 and 4 came out for PC
That sounds great. Aren't shitty graphics a given for PS2 games anyway, also, do they emulate well/at all?
>>333831002
3 and 4 are PS3 games
>>333831002
2 emulates pretty good on my toaster
>>333832301
Good to hear.
Who voiced Rishi in the japanese version of Tenchu 4?
>>333832923
Rikiya Koyama
Pic related shares the same VA
>>333833602
Rinshi was voiced by a man?
