This Blog Needs More Tenchu

I've received a formal request for more Tenchu. I'm not sure why it's more Tenchu because I'm not sure I've written anything about it. (Have I?)

Tenchu is, in a word, AWESOME. I personally have this thing for stealth killing. If I am seen even once in my mission, I consider it a massive failure on my part and restart. This isn't all that smart really, as in the most recent Tenchu Z, you got more gold by letting the boss see you and killing him normally. I never did this. At the expense of doubling my gold for that kill I would sneak about in the shadows and murder my targets in complete secrecy.

I took great pride in what my Ninja looked like in that game. I bought each and every piece of armor and clothing and chose what I felt made me look coolest, even if that didn't make me look like much of a Ninja. Good times, I can still remember the blood fountains as they blossomed from the throats of my fallen foes.

One thing I hated about the game was innocents. They would wander around aimlessly screaming and making a ruckus if they caught sight of you or your deadly work. You can't kill them, that makes Rikimaru angry and he docks your pay. What a jerk, they are interfering with my art. They should be punished, to the full extent of my blade.

Another problem the critics had with the game was the fact that guards are stupid, and forget you ever existed after they let you slip away. What's the problem with this? Personally I don't want to be hounded incessantly by a generic samurai that got lucky enough to catch a glimpse of me. Maybe I want to slip away before he even realizes what he saw and then I can stab him in the neck. Granted, I've already stated I don't let them become fully aware of me without restarting the mission. But if a guard hears me run along the roof "What was that?!". I don't want him following me to the ends of the earth.

Let's say though, that I want to practice my non-sneaky combat. Let a guard see me so I can engage him mano a mano. Uh oh, things aren't going well. I try and escape, hide and let him go back to his route. If the guards were really smart, they'd follow me and I'd have no real way of escaping. But the way it's designed, I can pretend I'm really a ninja and *poof* I'm gone. They can't find any trace of my being there any longer and go back to being trained dogs and walk along predetermined paths again. I like it this way. Maybe that's just me. I can forgive sloppy programming as long as the gameplay makes up for it and the sloppiness doesn't make the game unplayable. My opinion anyway.

That's all I can really think about Tenchu at the moment. Sorry it wasn't a fanfic about Rikimaru and his protoge realizing that all these battles they've been through... They've created a bond that cannot be broken, a bond called love.