With a big map filled with activities and a story that is affected by your choices, there’s quite a lot to do once you completeRise of the Ronin,and you can probably predict some of these if you’re a fan of open-world games. There are some other things you may not expect, though.
Because of that, the game will still offer more of it once its beaten, so you don’t need to worry about having a short game experience with it. Starting it over can also be tempting here, as we’ll see, and that expands the experience even more. So, what can you do after the story is over?
9Find All The Cats
The Best Collectible
This game has many collectibles for you to find, and that alone is already a fun activity to do in the game. Among these, you have cats that are just chilling around the map, and you can approach and pet them.
That’s even useful for better equipment, as getting the cats take them to the base, and you can get better gear depending on how many cats you have. You can evenspend time with themlater.
8Find All The Shrines
Skill Points Are Always Welcome
Another collectible you’ll find out there are the shrines, which will help you by giving you more skill points to mess around with on your skill trees. Upgrading your character is always useful, even post-game, so you can mess around with other difficulties.
These shrines can also help you collect all the trophies if that’s interesting for you. One of the trophies in the game will ask for every upgrade in one of the four skill trees, so every extra skill point counts.
7Upgrade Skills And Gear
Master Thyself
We briefly mentioned this topic due to the shrines, but making your character as powerful as they can so you’re able to venture through side content is always helpful. You can level up and use the shrines to get as many skill points as you have and become a true master of your favorite weapons.
However, there’s plenty of gear to find, from armor toweapons and sub-weapons,and they can all be upgraded through resources, meaning you can make yourself even more powerful with the right upgrades.
6Hunt The Fugitives
Extra Fights Are Always Welcome
Among other collectibles in the game, we also have fugitives, which are strong-ish enemies scattered throughout the map, and they are the perfect opportunity to level yourself up in case you’re stuck in a mission and can’t progress.
They also come with powerful loot, also helping you out with getting better gear options, or at least gear that you can disassemble for resources and upgrade the ones you already have. They’ll be useful, one way or another.
5Bond With Your Allies
Teamwork Makes The Dream Work
The game offers you many potential allies throughout your adventure, and each of them hastheir own bond level,which is essentially how much they like you. You can increase that through conversations (if you see eye to eye), gifts, or missions with this ally.
These missions can be very entertaining to do and help you connect with the characters even more as you learn a bit more about them through seeing them in action.
4Midnight Difficulty
Raise The Stakes
The game offers you three difficulty settings: Dawn, Dusk, and Twilight, which are easy, medium, and hard, respectively. That’s all fine and good, and these difficulties are pretty well balanced between them, but in case they were not enough for you, beating the game unlocks Midnight difficulty.
If you want to start the game over and play around with the fact you now know how to play the game properly, this is the perfect way of re-doing it, or you can still mess around with the other difficulties in case Dusk or Twilight were hard for you at first.
3Make Different Choices
Will You Fight Or Support The Shogun This Time?
You have quite a few choices to make during the story, such as choosing missions that support or hinder the Shogun, and that also influences your allies' opinions about you, since they will have their own views on the political situation of their land.
Thus, you can easily make a second playthrough and alter the choices you can make during the story just to see how different things will go between you and the friends you make along the journey.
2Testament Of The Soul
Replay Without Starting Over
When you first arrive in Edo, you’ll unlock a special menu called Testament Of The Soul, which is the game’s fancy term for Chapter Select. You can replay missions from the game without having to fully start over and lose all your skills and gear, and you can still do more here.
Through this menu, you can still level your character up, change choices you’ve made in the past and make them matter in the endgame, and play around with other difficulties, including Midnight.
1Play Online
From Friends To Randoms
If you were expecting a singleplayer-only experience, well, think again. Though the game works as a singleplayer adventure most of the time, there are a few big missions where you go through a menu before entering them, so you can manage your gear and your team.
The team doesn’t need to be exclusively NPC companions; however; you can join these missions with random people from the internet or play them with your besties who also bought the game.
Rise of the Ronin
WHERE TO PLAY
An action-adventure game from Team Ninja, Rise of the Ronin takes place during the final years of Japan’s Edo period. In the midst of the country’s turmoil, you play the titular ronin on a journey of your own making.
