>>736357969
>Redditjim

>>736357969
Genuinely enjoyed it. Mr. X would have been perfect, but Majima's OST and skin make up for his absence. Finishing hardcore mode later today.

>>736357969
It has denuvo so this is probably one of the worst places to discuss the game. They've also haven't bothered announcing the actual patch so lots of people wouldn't know the game is great with hardcore mode now.

>>736357969
It's nice that a new Shinobi came out, but when I saw it was a Metroidvania about doing crazy combos, I rolled my eyes.

>>736360032
>no combo score
>no combo decay
>the game is somehow about combos
What?

Who's the guy on the right?

>>736360627
Death Adder, final boss from Golden Axe.

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>>736357969
Will HE ever come back?

>>736360398
You learn dedicated combo strings that can do things like knock an enemy in the air, you can cancel strings into other attacks to hit the same guy easily, and it's obviously useful stunlocking an enemy to death. It doesn't literally go 20 HIT COMBO A THOUSAND POINTS but the scoring system involves opening an enemy up for a finishing move and landing it, so you'll naturally gravitate towards certain combos so you can do that.

>>736357969
Game turns into slop halfway through so I have no confidence the DLC is worth giving a shit about

>>736357969
>Eggman doesn't get his own stage
Yeah, they absolutely had to rush this DLC to get it out the door.

>>736360032
>but when I saw it was a Metroidvania
it's not though, it's still a linear level-based game with stuff to find in each level and a tiny bit of backtracking

>>736361507
>Knocking into the air
It's only really useful to keep a chain going while dodging moves or to just outright ring out a mob.
>canceling strings
Which are useful for other stuff like dodging or hitting more than one mob.
>It's obviously useful
It's also useful to other things that can't be covered just by x the mob over and over again.
>It doesn't cuhhraizy stuff
Probably because the game is about efficiency, you have multiple ways to finish mobs and "combos" are really only useful to maximize the damage on a window you get from bosses or armored mobs.

I can't really blame you fully for a shallow take on the game, normal mode is basically a glorified tutorial mode.

>>736362115
>It's only really useful to keep a chain going
There's a literal launcher like Dante's High Time, but combos generally knock enemies off their feet up into the air so you can do an air combo on them.
>It doesn't cuhhraizy stuff
Why did you specifically say it has "no combo score" and then ignore any comments about the combo score?

>>736361420
Yes. as a port

>>736362930
>There's a launcher
So Musou games are also combo games? Modern NG? Launchers have other utilites other than juggling defenceless potatoes.
>ignore
Because it's a meaningless score metric that can be inflated and doesn't weights on the final score, the only thing the combo matters for is to trigger amulets and even then the system itself is more tied to not being hit rather than the combos themselves since it has no decay. The execution gauge isn't tied to combo otherwise kunais wouldn't be the main way to raise it and as a score metric it only copunts the max amount of how many executed enemies at one time was, the other scoring metrics are all tied to efficiency and combo itself is tied to not being hit..