| Signalstar said: Rygar is a port of an Eight year old game that received absolutely no improvements which begs the question why bother? And every tenchu games after the first has gotten poor reviews. Tenchu Z on the 360 got a bad score on the DS and even the PSP port of Tenchu 4 will get poor scores. |
Z and DS were basically just attempts by the folks who took over the franchise to cash in. there truly was very little "stealth" in the DS game... there wasn't much at all besides a nice story.
Z was more of a create-your-own-ninja sim and had little to do with the Tenchu franchise... it could have been any game or stand alone.
Tenchu: Shadow Assassins represents an attempt from ORIGINAL developers (the ones that made the first couple Tenchu games that everyone seems to like) to bring Tenchu back to the forefront of the genre. many reviewers acknowledge this and have given the game good scores, reactions from people who have played it have been generally positive.
the point being that the X-Play review is completely inconsistent with other views of this title and I think I know why.
even their review of Rygar is flawed by the fact that there is not nearly as much motion control in the game as they make it out to be.... in fact, most of the motion control is used in the OPTIONAL game mode.
and for folks like me who never played the PS2 Rygar, why does it matter that this release doesn't offer much more than a restyling and a slight bump in graphics? does the re-release of games on the Virtual Console or PSN make them worse titles now than a decade+ ago? Rygar retails at $39.99 - so they recognize that it would be wrong to charge for a completely "new" title.
