N - 'Way of the ninja'

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 3:05 am

This is a fricking amazing game:

Winner of the Audience Award at the 2005 Game Developers Choice Awards, N, 'the way of the ninja', "is a highly advanced system of spiritual, cognitive, and physical training. It emphasizes pacifism, humility, and the need to traverse a series of 5 rooms before the end of your lifetime."

http://jayisgames.com/archives/2005/04/n.php

for an online version, go here:

http://www.milkandcookies.com/links/34440/

Post by **glossy** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 3:36 am

nice, although the controls don't feel very 'tight'

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 7:34 am

I think it's a thing that needs to be mastered - if you load up the game and watch the demos that automatically play, you can see that you can develop a really fine level of control

ah - just read that there's a way to disable sticky keys in the control config - maybe only in download version. Gonna try it.

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 7:41 am

never mind - the sticky thing is in windows control panel - not part of the game.

edit: check out the help menu - has some very useful tutorial information

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 4:13 pm

Wicked find jules, that's a lot of fun. I have no idea what level I'm on now but I've passed like 4 stages so far.

Post by **Freakaloin** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 4:13 pm

old...

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 6:27 pm

glossy wrote:nice, although the controls don't feel very 'tight'

Once you get the hang of how your character moves around the levels it get's pretty tight. I'm up to stage 5 so far..

Post by **Freakaloin** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 6:31 pm

don't u ppl have homes?

Post by **Foo** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 7:51 pm

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 8:30 pm

Freakaloin wrote:don't u ppl have homes?

Yeah when I'm home I'm not here!

Post by **Zyte** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 9:29 pm

Nice find! I remember you coming up with Wik fable of souls and again you find a nice subtle game.

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 9:32 pm

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 9:33 pm

I'm stuck on this one stage right now... it's tough cause you gotta draw out this little fast thing on the ground to one side then run through a narrow tunnel and jump out a small opening at the top before the thing you drew out to one side rams you comming back.

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 10:51 pm

yea i think i remember that one. I'm not much further ahead - just finished episode 4 (so done 20 levels). lol 480 levels left.

i'm in awe watching some of the demos - the amount of control those peeps have is ridiculous

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Sun Sep 18, 2005 11:09 pm

I remeber this from a while ago. I lost about two days in it.

Post by **4days** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 12:26 am

http://ece4co.vis.ne.jp/shockwave/rshot.html

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 1:31 am

4days wrote:http://ece4co.vis.ne.jp/shockwave/rshot.html

very stylish

Post by **Foo** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 3:27 am

http://ece4co.vis.ne.jp/shockwave8/itoneko.html

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Mon Sep 19, 2005 4:44 am

Foo wrote:http://ece4co.vis.ne.jp/shockwave8/itoneko.html

ROFL!!

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Wed Sep 21, 2005 6:35 am

Yes! Finished episode nine - new flavour unlocked (now i can make my ninja pink! :icon26:)

this game has an incredibly high skill barrier - like quake does - soo many important things to master that you never even thought of before. So many subtleties - but the power you have over the level is phenomenal once you start mastering these things.

"Way of the Ninja is a very apt title"

btw for help, this looks like it might be good:

http://www.freshsurf.co.uk/n-vision/nehs/

holy shit just realized that you can view replays of all the top scorers - it's integrated into the game. Unbelievable!

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 3:46 am

on episode 25

what about you freaks?

Post by **Zyte** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 8:59 am

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 6:54 pm

Starting episode 29 now

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 8:01 pm

[xeno]Julios wrote:on episode 25

what about you freaks?

I think I was on episode 10 but I keep having to restart since It doesn't seem to save.

Post by **[xeno]Julios** » Tue Sep 27, 2005 10:27 pm

yea u have to restart each episode if you quit halfway through. But once you finish an episode (which itself consists of 5 levels) then your progress is saved.

So i'm on episode 29 right now which means I've completed about 145 levels so far.