Grit
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Goated!
Shinobi Art Of Vengeance / Ninja Gaiden Ragebound
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Grit
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Those annoying eagles make a return, loved how they respawn when you get knocked back, back in the day.
Nevermind Ragebound go finish your game please good sir
Shinobi blood look insane even without the blood.
You were on to something with those enemy ambushes.
My games had about 5 different facelifts over the years, it's gone from Shinobi (Joe Musashi universe) to my very own I.P, I've worked so hard on it and I didn't want it to just be a fan game.
I started drawing the sprites for it a few years ago which also have had many face lifts too.
I've realised I'm going to have to do simple sprites, no bigger than 100 pixels and only dark, medium and light colour work. (3 shades of the same colour instead of 8 different shades of colour per skin tone for example)
On top of that I've had a lot of death happening in my family over the last 3 years and I ended a 20 year relationship with my partner so I've been feeling less than motivated to do anything.
Grit
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Outside of the game dev talk! That last paragraph I can relate to word for word and the only difference is context.
I will say this, there is nothing wrong with feeling the way you do but do not linger in it for too long.
People who say only focus on the good, keep them away from me, we need to experience it all so those bad feelings die and not us.
The only thing you can do is work on you here on in if you aren't already. Don't look at hitting rock bottom as an excuse to lose the best parts of what makes you who you are.
Bruh, this is nothing new, you know exactly what takes, discipline.
No one can put in the effort you suppose to put in. Only you.
You can dismiss the above but do one thing for me and start lifting again with no goal in sight.
Keep well
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There's a demo now too, it's like Christmas has come early, all we need now is the Bushiden game and it will be like the Holy Trinity of Ninja games.
I gave the new Shinobi demo a playthrough
It's really good, so good in fact it made me forget my little pet peeves that bother me like the overuse of screen shake and big flashy effects. I really like the combat and platforming mechanics and it definitely feels like the Shinobi of old times but with an upgrade.
It's really good, so good in fact it made me forget my little pet peeves that bother me like the overuse of screen shake and big flashy effects. I really like the combat and platforming mechanics and it definitely feels like the Shinobi of old times but with an upgrade.
I said earlier I feel like Lizardcube is severely overrated - but looks like they brought the goods this time around. Might have to grab a copy!
DC
It looks sick i cant wait to play. Might stop being lazy and play the 3ds version first.
So I got into it finally and it's a really good game, it feels more like a metroidvania type than a Ninja Garden game, I can't think of any aspect that's "Ninja Garden" (especially gameplay) apart from the characters used to be honest.
It will do until Shinobi is released
Halcyon Ways
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Just bounce off of everything to win =D
WOW! I just tested the theory and it's true
, I literally spent 4 minutes bouncing off every enemy all the way through the level, I didn't know I could bounce off projectiles too.
It was bothering me that I wasn't bothered by the hit flashes and screen shake so I decided to investigate 
I took some of my gameplay, slowed it down and analysed it
What I discovered is the biggest boldest hit flashes are displayed behind the characters and not in front so you still see a large percentage of the attack, not only that when the attack lands there's a slight pause and the enemy turns completely white which adds full contrast between the enemy and the flashes which allows your eyes to remained focused and to differentiate between the two and as the flashes quickly disappear the enemy fades back into colour.
The screen shake also pauses the screen as it happens and there is a slowing velocity as the shake finishes, it doesn't jump up 8 pixels and down 8 pixels 4 times
its more like 8, 6, 4 which gives a very smooth motion while its happening and a gentle stop when the animation ends and is really easy on the eye.
The art style complements all this as I don't think with the square edges of pixels it wouldn't of been as subtle, especially with the shaking of all the graphics on screen. I really have to take my hat off to the developers for this, it really shows how much thought and effort have gone into basic things like hit flashes and screen shake.
so I decided to investigate I took some of my gameplay, slowed it down and analysed itWhat I discovered is the biggest boldest hit flashes are displayed behind the characters and not in front so you still see a large percentage of the attack, not only that when the attack lands there's a slight pause and the enemy turns completely white which adds full contrast between the enemy and the flashes which allows your eyes to remained focused and to differentiate between the two and as the flashes quickly disappear the enemy fades back into colour.
The screen shake also pauses the screen as it happens and there is a slowing velocity as the shake finishes, it doesn't jump up 8 pixels and down 8 pixels 4 times
its more like 8, 6, 4 which gives a very smooth motion while its happening and a gentle stop when the animation ends and is really easy on the eye.
The art style complements all this as I don't think with the square edges of pixels it wouldn't of been as subtle, especially with the shaking of all the graphics on screen. I really have to take my hat off to the developers for this, it really shows how much thought and effort have gone into basic things like hit flashes and screen shake.
Halcyon Ways
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Another thing you might not know is that if you use the dodge roll and then hit jump. You will get slightly higher jump that lets you throw 3 kuni at once. You also get a new attack as you dodge roll. =DWOW! I just tested the theory and it's true
I wanted to post some more trailers
I pre-ordered it today, I've not pre-ordered a game since Metal Gear Rising on the PS3 that's how excited I am to play it, I always wanted to make another Shinobi 3 game because in my opinion it's one of the best games ever made and after playing this demo I can honestly say it's up there with Shinobi 3.
I pre-ordered it today, I've not pre-ordered a game since Metal Gear Rising on the PS3 that's how excited I am to play it, I always wanted to make another Shinobi 3 game because in my opinion it's one of the best games ever made and after playing this demo I can honestly say it's up there with Shinobi 3.
O Ilusionista
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Nice, I just hope they won't put Sonic itself on the game, as he would be very out of place