Rise of The Ronin Walkthrough Gameplay Part 4 - Follow Your Blade Twin - (PC Gameplay)
1Rise of The Ronin Walkthrough Gameplay Part 4 - Follow Your Blade Twin - (PC Gameplay)
Rise of The Ronin Walkthrough Gameplay Part 4
This video includes the 4th part of Rise of The Ronin that is played on PC.
Rise of the Rōnin is a 2024 action-role playing game developed by Koei Tecmo's Team Ninja and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment for the PlayStation 5 and by Koei Tecmo on Windows. It is the third collaboration between Sony and Koei Tecmo after Nioh and its sequel.
In the year 1853, the Blade Twins are tasked by the Bladesmith to assassinate Commodore Matthew Perry and steal a secret message in his possession. They are able to steal the message, but are unable to kill Perry due to the intervention of another assassin, the Blue Demon. Outmatched, one of the Blade Twins is forced to flee while their partner sacrifices themselves to ensure the Blade Twin's escape, now the Protagonist. After Shogunate oniwaban attack the Veiled Edge's village, the Protagonist realizes that their partner is still alive and decides to desert the Veiled Edge to search for them. The Bladesmith forces the Protagonist into a duel to the death to win the right to abandon the clan, with the Protagonist prevailing and the Bladesmith wishing them luck with her dying breath.
The Protagonist makes their way to Yokohama in 1858, where they befriend wandering ronin Ryoma Sakamoto. The social order of Yokohama and all of Japan has been thrown into turmoil due to the arrival of the Perry Expedition and increasing Western influence in the country. As Ryoma searches for his master Shoin Yoshida with his fellow students, the Protagonist investigates the whereabouts of their partner, now known as Demonclaw Samurai, who is working for the Americans and British. Shogunate Chief Minister Naosuke Ii enacts harsh suppression and purges of anti-Shogunate and anti-foreigner sentiment, culminating in Shoin's arrest and execution in 1859 which angers Ryoma and his friends. Genzui Kusaka decides to take Shoin's place and rebel against the Shogunate, along with Kogoro Katsura, Shinsaku Takasugi, and others. They rally a small army to attack Ii directly. The Blue Demon, whose true identity is Akikatsu Manabe, attempts to protect Ii but is struck down by the Protagonist in retribution, and Ii is either successfully assassinated or manages to flee with a still-living Manabe, only to be assassinated later by the Demonclaw Samurai. As a result of Ii's death, American influence in Japan wanes as British influence strengthens, led by Ernest Satow and Rutherford Alcock.
In 1863, the Protagonist continues working with Ryoma's group in Edo upon learning the Demonclaw Samurai is collaborating with the British. After Genzui brazenly burns down the British Legation, Ryoma begins to balk at Genzui's increasingly violent methods. Genzui sets his next target as Kaishu Katsu, an important Shogunate official. The Protagonist and Ryoma attack Katsu, who easily fights them off and instead wins them to his side by telling them his desire to reform the Shogunate and modernize Japan without the use of violence. They assist Katsu in recruiting additional followers to his cause. Eventually, they meet the Shogun Yoshinobu Tokugawa himself, who expresses his own desire to modernize Japan to match the West. Yoshinobu decides to travel to Kyoto as part of a ploy to lure his enemies into the open, and Katsu requests the Protagonist and Ryoma to join the Roshigumi to protect Yoshinobu. However, shortly after their arrival in Kyoto in 1864, the leader of the Roshigumi, Kiyokawa Hachirō, is assassinated by the Demonclaw Samurai and exposed as a traitor, throwing the organization in chaos. Roshigumi is disbanded, some of its members returning to Edo while those remaining in Kyoto form the Shinsengumi.
Sensing weakness, Genzui leads the Choshu clan to attack Kyoto. The Shinsengumi, along with the Satsuma clan armed with British cannons, are able to defeat the Choshu. The Protagonist confronts the Demonclaw Samurai, who reveals that they have been behind many of the events accelerating the Shogunate's decline as revenge for their village's destruction. The Protagonist disagrees with the Demonclaw Samurai's path of violence and refuses to join forces with them. The Demonclaw Samurai flees while Genzui commits seppuku to avoid capture. Realizing that both the Satsuma and Choshu want to overthrow the Shogunate, in 1866 Ryoma manages to convince Satsuma general Takamori Saigo to join forces with the Choshu despite being traditional enemies, forming the Choshu-Satsuma Alliance. Shortly after, the Protagonist infiltrates the Shinsengumi to investigate an assassination attempt on Ryoma. The Protagonist roots out the traitor within the Shinsengumi and accompanies Ryoma to the Shogun's palace, where they manage to thwart an attempt by Satow to assassinate Yoshinobu and convince the latter to dissolve the Shogunate and effect a peaceful transition of power.