RONIN Reviews

Fun game, I loved it.

I like the core idea/mechanic, but the extreme lack of polish and faulty hit-boxes make me wish I had played a different game (or watched a video). #Janky #Frustrating #Unfair #Shovelware #BuillSh*t

Fun little platformer. I got all achievements on this game. Can get frustrating but overall good little game.

This game is like a simple turn-based mix of Gunpoint and Mark of the Ninja, but the idea is wasted. It is just too unpolished, too unbalanced, too buggy and the game design choices are stupid. The controls are simple enough but too clunky. It is not easy to aim with the very and very limited umprecise jump trajectory, but it is too easy to make a mistake, like unintentional ceiling grab while in combat. And the real-time movement plus turn-based combat just don’t work so fluently together in this game, making very unfair situations where you cannot do nothing than getting shot. And there are lots of trial and error gameplay which is not a good at all. The level design is otherwise good, but it is just impossible to complete the levels without causing alarm and lockdown. There are simply too many guards around to raise the alarm quickly at any time, and most of the time you are forced to avoid the laser sights without any chance to kill those constantly shooting guards. The guards have way too long range and detection distance. The player character cannot just kill the guards automatically when getting close enough instead of knocking them down? And the guards could not accidentally shoot each other? Those would have added extra strategy and extra fun. It is so stupid that the game says early on "this is not a stealth game" but yet you are not supposed to cause alarm and the level design does not support gameplay without causing alarms. And the problem with that when unavoidable lockdown happens, you have lost all your chances to earn a skill point which is really needed to get new upgrades. It is so stupid that all the level objectives must be met to earn just one skill point. Otherwise you won't get any upgrade from the skill tree. And there are even empty skills slots in which you can waste your very few skill points. And lastly the game is buggy. It is not uncommon to clip through walls, ceilings or even ground when using the grappling hook. It happened occasionally which is annoying. There is always a chance to reload from the latest checkpoint, but even still and the checkpoint system is poor in this game. So one time with this is just enough. Do not buy at full price.

If you're looking for a game to enjoy for a few hours then move on, and you don't mind having to occasionally retry a single part of a level a dozen times, then this is a good choice.

An addictive action/puzzler for those who like Ninja games like Mark of the Ninja as well as high intensity environment puzzlers like Super Meat Boy. Found myself constantly wanting to try just one more time to perfect my previous attempts at cleaving through each stage. Highly recommend and only wish I'd given this one a chance sooner.