We jump around, climb on walls, and bitch about quick time events!
Game: Mark of The Ninja
Webzone: Mark of the Ninja Remastered
Devel: Klei Entertainment
Engine: Custom
Price:$20 USD, $5 if you have the original
Wazzat:In Mark of the Ninja, you’ll know what it is to truly be a ninja. You must be silent, agile and clever to outwit your opponents in a world of gorgeous scenery and flowing animation.
Does It Launch
- Works OOTB unlike the non-remastered version.
Performance @ 1080
- It maintains a solid 60 except when it don’t.
- Sometimes depending on the hour of the day and what shoes you are wearing it will nosedive into the 40’s every 10 seconds or so making it unplayable.
- This can be resolved by restarting the game… a few times.
Graphics
- Dark and flashy.
Control
- Steam controlla no issues.
Does It Launch
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Performance @ 1080
- Runs smoothly @ UHD #Wintel
Graphics
- The animated cutscenes give me newgrounds flashbacks. Not that that’s a bad thing, I just haven’t seen that sort of animation in a good long while
Control
- Works OOTB with the ps4 controller. Still getting xbox prompts
Does It Launch
- It does start right up
Performance @ 1080
- Oh yes, when the performance tanks it tanks like the Panzer VIII
- It’s jarring to see.
Graphics
- Graphics look crisp and even when your character is hiding you can still see it
- Which I guess is where the focus of this particular remaster went into.
Control
- Yes, the Quick Time Events are still just as responsive as they were last time but more on that later.
QA Score:
Fun section:
Fun?:
- Venn:
- Like HitMan this game has a little thing I like to call the nope cascade.
- One little mistake can trigger a tsunami of guards and that’s that.
- It’s repetitive as hell and that really sinks in around the two hour oh hi Mark of the ninja.
- Press X to stab respects is hella annoying and adds nothing to the game.
- When you are not doing that it’s hurry up and wait.
- It does provide you with a bag-o-tricks to overcome situations designed for said bag-o-tricks.
- When this game first arrived on Linux is was busted with the always run mechanic taped down.
- Even after that was sorted it was nothing exceptional but OMG NEW GAME ON LINUX!11! allowed me to overlook a lot of shortcoming.
- In 2018 we have a gang of games and more incoming so revisiting this is not a good idea.
- Even with a new coat of HD it’s still… boring.
- How, fkn, evar.
- If you have been waiting for a remaster of bitch ninja Mc. bag-o-tricks and have the original pick this up for $4.99 and kill two hours.
- Jordan
- I’m with pedro, I’m not that big a fan of the QTE assasturbations
- Aragami had it right, position yourself and press a button
- The sneaking gameplay is pretty good, although sometimes you get screwed by the context sensitive menus
- Sometimes though, the best option seems to be to cheese the fuck out of the enemies and make a mad dash to the next checkpoint
- I guess I’m not very good at this game. It requires a sort of patience I really don’t have
- Nice touch, you no longer run by default
- Everything looks nice in UHD, so If you enjoyed the original one, want some new side missions and some crisper art, it’s not the worst 5 bucks you could spend
- Pedro
- I suppose I shouldn’t have expected much since it’s just a remaster rather than a remake.
- But I still hate the QTE stealth kills.
- And just how annoying it is, the moment you’re spotted, ninja dude forgets he has a sword until the enemy is knocked down.
- Also, and I mentioned this last time, you get rewarded for not killing guards or raising the alarm.
- But all you can do with those rewards is to buy more skills for your character to make the game easier.
- If you’re already good enough to get through the levels without those skills, why would you want to buy them?
- Klei does good games.
- Shank is fucking awesome! Shank 2 is just more of that fucking awesomeness! Don’t Starve is great if you enjoy that kind of game.
- Of all the games they decide to remaster this one… I don’t get it.
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