Nil-Ninjahtic: Ronin

Nil-Ninjahtic: Ronin is yet another of literally thousands of 2D retro platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere. It's essentially a sequel to Ninjahtic and Ninjahtic Mind Tricks, which is apt because it pretty much seems like a copy + paste + reskin of those games. This keeps mostly the same art assets as Ninjahtic Mind Tricks, so it's pretty repetitive stuff at this point. Just like the last two, this is some badly implemented GameMaker Studio platforming with a bit of brawling. The controls are clunky and again, the visuals bad. One important note is that even though this is an amateur project, it does seem to be sincerely and genuinely made. I couldn't find any flipped assets, plagiarism or any other kind of insincere actions from the developer, but unfortunately genuine intentions alone are not enough to produce a brilliant PC gaming experience. Let's wade into all the usual defects. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's un…

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Cool game. I like the Ninjahtic series. Be aware that you can block shurikens and bullets by holding down the block button and walking toward the enemy.

This is close to a masterpiece. The minimal tutorial isn't very clear; you can run up a wall at any tile by simply trying to move up while on a wall. The first boss fight is ambiguous. When he teleports, I don't know if that counts as a hit or not. Most of the time he teleports, but of you wait for his charge attack and hit him after he dodges towards you, you can hurt him (a red sprite shows up). The difference between what is solid and what isn't is not always clear. We can climb up pipes and they can be mistaken for background decoration at first. There are store signs, all of them can be climbed, but they're as bright as the background environment which is not solid. Checkpoints: they only happen after a boss fight. It took me almost 1 hour to beat the first stage and the boss, that means if you quit the game before then, you must start from the beginning of that chapter. I beat Stage 1 and apparently only 5% of players have done so. I believe it confirms the checkpoint issue. .... To the dev: I hope you take it constructively, your game is amazing. My first thought after launching the game was "this is how platformers should be made".

Nil-Ninjahtic: Ronin 10/10

The game itself is really entertaining and thrilling on the same time since it isn't an easy platformer. The boss fights of this game are more harder than on a Dark Souls game, if you do one wrong turn, you have to start from a new, no matter how far you went on your progress. The story itself isn't thrilling, you could say "boring". Luckily got this game on a Steam coupon, so I didn't wasted so much money on this "torture"