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N - 'Way of the ninja'

Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 3:05 am
by [xeno]Julios
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/

Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 3:36 am
by glossy
nice, although the controls don't feel very 'tight'

Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 7:34 am
by [xeno]Julios
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.

Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 7:41 am
by [xeno]Julios
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

Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 4:13 pm
by Guest
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.

Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 4:13 pm
by Freakaloin
old...

Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 6:27 pm
by Guest
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..

Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 6:31 pm
by Freakaloin
don't u ppl have homes?

Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 7:51 pm
by Foo
Image

Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 8:30 pm
by Guest
Freakaloin wrote:don't u ppl have homes?
Yeah when I'm home I'm not here! :olo:

Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 9:29 pm
by Zyte
Nice find! I remember you coming up with Wik fable of souls and again you find a nice subtle game.

Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 9:32 pm
by [xeno]Julios
:)

Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 9:33 pm
by Guest
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.

Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 10:51 pm
by [xeno]Julios
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

Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 11:09 pm
by phantasmagoria
I remeber this from a while ago. I lost about two days in it.

Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 12:26 am
by 4days

Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 1:31 am
by [xeno]Julios
4days wrote:http://ece4co.vis.ne.jp/shockwave/rshot.html
very stylish :)

Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 3:27 am
by Foo

Posted: Mon Sep 19, 2005 4:44 am
by [xeno]Julios
Foo wrote:http://ece4co.vis.ne.jp/shockwave8/itoneko.html
ROFL!!

Posted: Wed Sep 21, 2005 6:35 am
by [xeno]Julios
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!

Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 3:46 am
by [xeno]Julios
on episode 25

what about you freaks?

Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 8:59 am
by Zyte
16

Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 6:54 pm
by [xeno]Julios
Starting episode 29 now

Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 8:01 pm
by Guest
[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.

Posted: Tue Sep 27, 2005 10:27 pm
by [xeno]Julios
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.