It’s one thing figuring out how not to get seen by multiple enemies all looking at each other but that gets worse when you don’t even know where you’re meant to be going. The early stages felt linear and satisfying to get through but after a while the levels got too big, too complex and ended up being frustrating.

The main problem though was the level design. I remember one bit with a fucking boat that made me what to kill myself as I struggled to figure out exactly what the game wanted me to do. Especially when you have to use your ability to create shadows that you can leap onto. That works well enough but we’ve been spoiled over the years by games like Assassin’s Creed that let you freely navigate the world you are in so being crouched down trying to figure which few pixels you can actually warp onto was annoying. You can’t jump in the game but you can shadow leap by pointing at a surface and warping to it. It felt clunky at times, especially for a ninja stealth game. While Aragami was a good game and one that we can recommend to stealth fans, it had a few issues. The setting of Feudal Japan was well-realised too, the game using a similar cartoonish look to that of the Borderlands games to represent its action. You skulked around in the shadows figuring out which guards to kill in which order so that your naughty deeds weren’t observed and you unlocked various new abilities along the way that could help you. The game offered thirteen levels to stealth kill your way through and initially it all seemed to capture that spirit of Tenchu reasonably well. They had captured a girl called Yamiko who had used her powers to summon you so that you could rescue her. It told the story of Aragami, the titular supernatural assassin who used darkness to navigate the game’s world and to take out the Kaiho, an army of warriors who use the light.

Jin PS4 tagged aragami / dlc / nightfall / ninja / stealth by RichieĢ016’s Aragami was a third-person stealth action game that was reasonably well received and caught our interest because it looked like the Tenchu game we’ve always wanted on the PS4.

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