Staff Ninja’s PlayStation-exclusive motion RPG Rise of the Ronin is barely every week away from launch, and Sony has revealed an epic cinematic trailer for the event. Mixing live-action scenes with in-game visuals, the trailer focuses on the bond between the protagonist and their misplaced Blade Twin.
Set in nineteenth century Japan, Rise of the Ronin sees the participant controlling a customizable warrior-for-hire generally known as the Veiled Edge. The sport delves right into a interval of historical past the place the so-called Black Ships of the West threatened Japan’s beforehand closed borders, and can see the participant character interacting with varied historic figures as they forge their very own path by way of the sport’s open world story.
The participant will get to customise two characters, the Veiled Edge and their Blade Twin, two siblings who had been raised and educated collectively. The launch trailer focuses on this dynamic, contrasting photographs of the twins as kids with a tense stand-off between the 2 as grownup ronin.
Rise of the Ronin is a brand new model of sport for Staff Ninja, combining the fight model of earlier video games like Wo Lengthy and Nioh with a extra freeform, open-world construction. The sport’s advertising and marketing has pushed the sense of freedom within the sport, with a storyline that may react to your choices as you select your individual path as a ronin.
Rise of the Ronin arrives on PS5 on March 22. You possibly can try GameSpot’s preview of Rise of the Ronin right here.