Tenchu: Fatal Shadows

[EvilMog]

I didn't really like the sheathing/unsheathing thing in T2. None of the new concepts they introduced in that game gelled all that well (hiding bodies, swimming, etc.).

As for jumping out of the water for a stealth kill, I wasn't aware you could do that. Didn't you make a splash and alert the guard? Anytime I touched water in T2 the guards heard it.

I liked being able to sheath my sword. I wish all sword play action games let me do it. And you can for SURE jump out of the water and stealth kill people. I don't recall excatly how but I remember my bro and I killing fools that way on the last level.

[Dolemite]

One thing that worries me is that the usual composer of the series, Noriyuki Asakura, only did one or two songs for Fatal Shadows. Someone else did the rest of the score.

Asakura's soundtracks are amazing (one of the reasons I don't like Tenchu 2 is because the idiots at Aquire decided it would be a great idea to include NO MUSIC WHATSOEVER in the levels), and I hope the new guy is up to the task.

You drop a rice ball, then grapple to the ceiling (this is in the PS2 vers too right?), and right when he picks it up, you drop on him and do something cool.

Yeah, the ceiling move is in the PS2 rev as well. That's a cool ability, and came in really handy several times.

Ninja Vision is probably the most useful ability by far, however.

[Dolemite]

IGN review: http://ps2.ign.com/articles/586/586805p1.html

[Lyte Edge]

IGN review: http://ps2.ign.com/articles/586/586805p1.html

That score is too low. :P Fatal Shadows is much better than the last two tenchu games (Tenchu 2 and the last PS2/Xbox game) IMO. The AI is still stupid (on normal setting, anyway), but smarter than before, and the level design is better this time around.

[Dolemite]

That score is too low. :P Fatal Shadows is much better than the last two tenchu games (Tenchu 2 and the last PS2/Xbox game) IMO. The AI is still stupid (on normal setting, anyway), but smarter than before, and the level design is better this time around.

That's what I've been hearing, yeah.

[Diff-chan]

it's sad to have to admit that Fatal Shadows not only fails to enhance the genre as a whole, but also fails to offer any serious improvements over its predecessor.

Why do people still care about this stupid series? It has been the poor man's stealth game for like 8 years now. The PS2 Tenchu did nothing to fix the flaws of the older games, and this one wont either.

Heh.

[g0zen]

You're proud that your views are in line with IGN?

Well, congrats, I guess..Want a McGriddle?

[Jeremy]

I'll get this when I can get it for $5, like Tenchu 3 for Xbox, which is fun on Live, although the controls are sloppy, hopefully that isn't the case with this game.

[Dipstick]

I'll get this when I can get it for $5, like Tenchu 3 for Xbox, which is fun on Live, although the controls are sloppy, hopefully that isn't the case with this game.

They're just as bad. You see the point about this game fixing none of the flaws of the previous Tenchu games? Yeah.

I just wish it didn't take so much damn time to restart missions; maybe I should actually install HDLoader and see if that helps any...

-Dippy

[Thief Silver]

I agree though, it still looks like ass, and it most likely does offer very little interactivity with the environs (ugh). They need to make the level design a bit more epic than it actually is, maybe throw something intelligent into it. Because going around killing every enemy with the same technique which you could do for a good deal of tenhcu 3, gets boring. If they were to have each environment of the levels different and clever, seperating them from the way you play the other levels, that would make this a truly great game.