TENCHU: Stealth Assassins

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TENCHU: Stealth Assassins Anonymous Mon Jul 27 02:36:36 2015 No.2567886 [Reply] [Original]

Can we talk about one of my favorite PlayStation games? I found a demo video with differences not even in the original Japanese release.
https://youtu.be/lJOD3zeIDZQ

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 02:52:41 2015 No.2567898 >>2567886 I don't understand why Tenchu was praised in Ps1 and somehow hated in ps2.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 03:09:10 2015 No.2567906 >>2567898 I've never heard anything bad about the third game. I in fact love it for the moveable camera. And it's eons better than Shadow Assassins.

Anonymous Mon Jul 27 03:34:03 2015 No.2567936

>>2567906
It's more a press thing. Tenchu 3 have a rating of 79 in metacritic, not that bad. But the metascore of Fatal Shadows, in my opinion the best game in the series, it's 58.
It's like in some moment Tenchu stopped being cool, except for the fans.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 03:40:42 2015 No.2567939 >>2567936 I find Fatal Shadows more challenging than the previous games. Also, is Tenchu 2: Birth of The Stealth Assassins /vr/? It was released on ps1, but in 2000.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 03:43:24 2015 No.2567941 >>2567939 Yes, everything released on ps1 it's considered retro. It's not about the release date but the platform.

Anonymous Mon Jul 27 03:48:33 2015 No.2567948
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Now here's some related stuff;

The music of Tenchu:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVrnds0HgLQ&index=41&list=PLzV2pdZ3UIRPwUwrcxqdv3bPwqKbXzbwQ
Tenchu Beta:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAy28ZRKR9Y
Tenchu something:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSY_SVd865Y&index=40&list=PLzV2pdZ3UIRPwUwrcxqdv3bPwqKbXzbwQ

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 03:51:13 2015 No.2567952 >>2567948 >that last video Been in my favorites playlist since 2008

Anonymous Mon Jul 27 04:23:48 2015 No.2567983

Debug menu is fun as fuck.

>shoot arrows, bullets and lightning out of your chest while zipping around on lightfoot scrolls like an asshole

>grapnel up the side of the tower instead of going through the tedious inside, lay like 50 mines, then walk near the door to trigger the cutscene
>Onikage walks in to shit talk and is immediately blown the fuck up
>he literally disappears and now I can't finish the stage

Worth it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 05:28:01 2015 No.2568050 >>2567898 I believe the reviewers at the time thought the new games were too similar to the PS1 games, they wanted Sam Fisher and Agent 47 not ninjas,

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 05:29:55 2015 No.2568052 >>2568050 How someone can't love ninjas?

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 05:35:57 2015 No.2568059 >>2568050 The series switching developer houses might have had something to do with it.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 08:07:02 2015 No.2568178 This game is amazing.

Anonymous Mon Jul 27 08:20:54 2015 No.2568189
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>>2567886
>one of my favorite PlayStation games
My man.

It feels bad that they sold the Tenchu name and everybody did whatever the hell they wanted with it.
Did anybody here play the shinobi hyakusen version? It was filled goodies, like https://youtu.be/GKWpagWQFGI

I did a no damage and no items run with Ayame not too long ago.
https://youtu.be/DSZCoDffKgE

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 11:23:56 2015 No.2568503 >>2568059 K2 actually did it great.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 12:47:56 2015 No.2568648 >>2568189 >It feels bad that they sold the Tenchu name and everybody did whatever the hell they wanted with it. Actually Tenchu returned to Acquire since Tenchu 4. And nou the franchise it's more dead than ever ;_;

Anonymous Mon Jul 27 12:52:19 2015 No.2568660

I think the first two were loved because of the metal gear stealth fad/fashion of the time. People are fickle and I guess the later games didn't really develop on it enough. I played the first two and thought they were pretty good despite the hardware limitations. I'm currently playing through wrath of heaven on ps2 and it's pretty good. Did they up the difficulty? I don't remember it being so hard. The enemies patterns are harder and there's this limestone level early on and it's full of nasty drops.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 16:58:22 2015 No.2569403 >tfw you will never live in a quiet village next to a small waterfall and a bambu forest like in T2

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 17:00:31 2015 No.2569414 >>2569403 >bambu

Anonymous Mon Jul 27 17:09:46 2015 No.2569447
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>>2568660

It was even released earlier, I'm pretty sure it's a loved series for its own merits. First time I was introduced on this game I still was in high school. Usually I don't get nostalgia'd because I'm always playing retrogames but this shit is special. Also,

>that kid which pretends to be bleeding and simulates a high pressure bloodstream leaving his chest

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 17:41:24 2015 No.2569519 >>2567948 That Tenchu music video is fookin genius.

Anonymous Mon Jul 27 17:46:57 2015 No.2569530

>>2568660
>metal gear stealth fad
Tenchu came out a year before though. I played the shit out of the Japanese version, first import game I owned. I still think it's the best in the series, maybe it's the level design, I don't know. Third (?) stage where you went up a mountain was great. Later games just seemed really half assed.

Those English voices though, holy shit.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 17:51:08 2015 No.2569541 >>2567886 They're both unplayable nowadays.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 17:53:46 2015 No.2569547 File: 1 KB, 142x133, 1436482655918.png [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2569541

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 17:54:51 2015 No.2569549 >>2569447 >>2569530 Metal Gear Solid was not the first Metal Gear game, you fucking retards.

Anonymous Mon Jul 27 17:56:44 2015 No.2569554

>>2569541
I don't find that to be the case. The hit detection is sometimes funny (in that he doesn't always trigger the animation, just the stealth kill) and jumping can be kinda floaty, but I still like the games. Two of my favorites on PS, and I find them much more replayable than MGS.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 18:15:32 2015 No.2569613 >>2569549 >not the first Metal Gear game No, but we're not talking about the first Metal Gear. It wasn't until 1998 or so that stealth games were even a genre, which is what we're talking. Metal Gear barely qualifies, rudimentary as it is.

Anonymous Mon Jul 27 18:19:10 2015 No.2569624
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>>2569549

kek, you're the one talking about the "fad" thinking specifically about the popularization of this kind of mechanic with MGS and arrival of Thief series, don't play the smart guy now.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 18:50:35 2015 No.2569723 >>2567983 How do you get into debug? I remember trying but couldn't figure it out.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 21:44:52 2015 No.2570230 ECHIGOYA WHERE HAVE YOU HIDDEN

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 22:54:25 2015 No.2570517 What is the best thing to do with debug mode? I was able to change the location of cutscenes.

>>	Anonymous Mon Jul 27 23:07:40 2015 No.2570574 >>2569723 http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps/198911-tenchu-stealth-assassins/faqs/4279

Anonymous Tue Jul 28 16:41:58 2015 No.2572367
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OST:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgSQcY89SSc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4YF_T4MZBI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zclzlxDIRQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQIYoiKZ5Oo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpPLGtG2Nk8

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 28 17:25:44 2015 No.2572437 File: 23 KB, 409x437, 1430518136072.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2567948 How it changed from the beta to the final product we got, or it was unplayable because lack of polish, or the guy playing was bad. Also >boing!

>>	Anonymous Tue Jul 28 17:33:10 2015 No.2572450 is shinobi gaisen the definitive version?

Anonymous Tue Jul 28 19:07:14 2015 No.2572617

>>2572450
I think it is. There's also Shinobi Hyakusen with 122 missions made with the editor and lots of videos, extras and stuff. One thing i really like about Tenchu it's all the content we usually have in every game, like all that game modes in Tenchu 3.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 02:12:12 2015 No.2573520 You know what would be nice? If whoever owns Tenchu would make a game of tenchu with a Dark Souls like exploration and the entire map of the first game was connected together with different areas in between.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 02:23:26 2015 No.2573532 >>2573520 Some kind of Tenchu pseudo-sandbox would be the shit.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 03:55:17 2015 No.2573678 >>2573520 I guess a non linear, open world Tenchu with branching storylines would be pretty great. Alas, the franchise is dead now so there's no hope to see that.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 04:31:19 2015 No.2573720 File: 207 KB, 1796x1382, ayame_by_scary_PANDA.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2567898 what? The worst Ive ever heard anyone say about the PS2 games was some mild complaints at worst

Anonymous Wed Jul 29 07:12:15 2015 No.2573874

>>2573678
>>2573532
>>2573520
It is not /vr/ but after giving away the Tenchu name, Acquire tried again and released Shinobido.
The characters are weak, but the game is incredible. The mechanics have all been improved. It blew my mind when finding a dead body, the guard looked around and then decided to look up, where I stood like an idiot on a roof.

Anonymous Wed Jul 29 17:21:29 2015 No.2575078

>>2573720
The critics were pretty bad, specially with Fatal Shadows.

>>2573874
Shinobido it's a masterpiece, even being really different to Tenchu. I love the idea of working for differents lords, helping one, betraying the other.
Too bad Acquire have so little production outside Tenchu and Way of the Samurai.

Anonymous Wed Jul 29 18:05:45 2015 No.2575164

>>2567886
I will never forget throwing rice balls and reusing them over and over again to distract guards.

Or guards catching them and starting to eat them. "Oh, hey rice from heaven. Thanks gods."

Or the randomly placed female orgasm sound on the distracting ocarina.

Tenchu was awesome.

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>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 19:02:28 2015 No.2575317 >>2568189 >https://youtu.be/DSZCoDffKgE Holy shit

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 19:05:59 2015 No.2575326 >>2568189 >https://youtu.be/DSZCoDffKgE Holy shit, that last Onikage fight. Did you use savestates?

Anonymous Wed Jul 29 20:12:17 2015 No.2575435

>>2570574
Does DEBUG mod not work on emulators? I know I input the code correctly because the "pause" message disappears and if I press select I can see that i can advance the game frame by frame. But when I hold L2+R2 to open the options nothing comes up? I've tried both PSXFIN and Epsxe so far. Couldn't get mednafen to work.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 21:30:22 2015 No.2575609 File: 464 KB, 900x1150, TENCHU_swimsuit_illo_for_PSM_by_AdamWarren.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2575078 >The critics were pretty bad, specially with Fatal Shadows. Fatal Shadows is my favorite one.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 21:32:38 2015 No.2575614 >>2575609 best thing about fatal shadows was the opening movie. and the girls thighs

Anonymous Wed Jul 29 21:37:21 2015 No.2575621

>>2575609
Mine too. That's why i don't really understand how videogame critics works.
I must say this affected sales too.
Tenchu 3 was the last one selling more than 1 million copies, Fatal Shadows didn't even reach the half million. While the first Tenchu sold like 2 million copies.
Tastes just change, i guess.

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 21:39:14 2015 No.2575629 >>2575621 tenchu is too japanese. people wanna play as a badass bald male, not some scrawny ninja grill

>>	Anonymous Wed Jul 29 21:40:52 2015 No.2575635 File: 47 KB, 372x575, American_Ninja.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>2575629 There was a time when that ninja stuff was the coolest thing here in the west.

Anonymous Wed Jul 29 23:20:09 2015 No.2575842
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>>2575621
>That's why i don't really understand how videogame critics works.

if they wanted to work they wouldn't be VG critics

That said I really liked 2 and FS because they for want of a better term a bit more "normal." I liked fighting human enemies more than demons and shit

>>2575629

Ninja girls are best girls

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 04:06:17 2015 No.2576205 Just started out this series, beat the first game. Took a bit of time to get used to the controls, but it was great fun. Fuck Onikage though, that bastard

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 07:00:12 2015 No.2576364 >>2575326 No, but since I played on an emulator, there is not much credibility. For what's worth, I played it 4 times on the day before, and 3 before getting that perfect run.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 16:50:12 2015 No.2577126 >>2576364 The only issue with your video is that you would be able to beat it a lot quicker if you avoided some of the guards rather than killing them, ie the dog before the final Onikage fight.

>>	Anonymous Thu Jul 30 17:11:48 2015 No.2577151 >>2576205 How näiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiive...

Anonymous Thu Jul 30 18:12:35 2015 No.2577253

>>2577126
Yeah, but I said in the description, I wasn't really trying to do a speedrun, I chopped some loading screens to shorten the time.
About that dog, I left him alive in one of the gameplays, and dodging Onikage I eventually backed up enough to a point where it saw me. And then I got hit. Everytime I got hit and had to replay the whole thing was because of one of the Onikage fights.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 31 01:57:35 2015 No.2578083 >>2577253 Rather than backing up, you should turn to your sideso that youre just on the wall. He can't hurt you because you'd be blocking. I think I've played this game too often.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 31 17:25:33 2015 No.2579394 Has anyone hete beat Shinobi Hyakusen?

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 31 17:33:18 2015 No.2579413 >>2579394 I heard it's hard as fuck, also 122 missions are many missions.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 31 17:56:10 2015 No.2579459 >>2579413 When it ends, does it just end? Do you get anything?

Anonymous Fri Jul 31 18:41:40 2015 No.2579575

>>2578083
But the problem is that if he connects the first kick he will usually do a combo, and you can only block the first hit. That is why the fights against him dragged on for so long. I don't remember if Rikimaru can block more than one hit, but with Ayame it really didn't work.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 31 18:56:10 2015 No.2579586 >>2579575 I usually just charge him and dodged, not block, his attacks.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 31 19:06:46 2015 No.2579607 >>2579459 I suppose it ends when you complete the 122 missions. I don't know if you get anything for that but i heard there's a lot of videos, extras and unlockable stuff.

Anonymous Fri Jul 31 19:26:30 2015 No.2579643

>>2569547
>>2569554
He's kind of right, even though he comes off as a retarded faggot trying to get negative reactions. I was a huge fan of the first game in the series back when it came out but now I can barely play two levels without feeling like I could be doing something much better with my life. Tenchu on PS2 perfected that formula for me, that's what I always play now when I want to play Tenchu. The first game will always have a special place in my heart though.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 31 20:26:12 2015 No.2579742 >>2579643 I don't know, but i played the first Tenchu years after Tenchu 3 and still loved it.

>>	Anonymous Fri Jul 31 23:52:27 2015 No.2580071 Is Shinobi Gaisen, Shinobi Hyakusen, and Shinobido worth getting a japanese PS2?

>>	Anonymous Sat Aug 1 18:29:34 2015 No.2582002 >>2580071 Just a chipped ps1 or 2 should be enough.

>>	Anonymous Sun Aug 2 02:40:35 2015 No.2582782 This thread was fun while it lasted.

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