I guess you could say I'm somewhat new to Tenchu, although I got introduced to it from Tenchu 4: Shadow Assassins for the Wii a couple years ago. Decided about 2 months ago to get into the series from the very beginning and now I'm flat out in love with Tenchu XD I've never been very good at stealth games (I'm looking directly at you, Splinter Cells...), but Tenchu feels like it was made just for me. And so far, Wrath of Heaven seems to be my most preferred game since they ditched the tank controls and the combat system is fantastic. I'm dying to play Fatal Shadows as soon as I clear the game as Tesshu.
And I agree, we never really see games like these this day and age. Which is why I just don't like the gaming industry very much anymore. There's hardly any creativity put into these games and there's hardly anything original. Nowadays game developers have to create a hyper realistic shooter with zombies in vain of Call of Duty's mainstream success to make a significant financial profit. Consumers, 12 year old kids included, would eat this stuff up like candy, which makes it extremely difficult for amazing titles that isn't filled to the brim with guns, sex, violence, and more guns to sell very well in today's economy. If the day comes that fighting games, beat 'em ups, hack 'n slashes, indie titles, and platformers stop being made in favor of FPSs and yet another Madden/Live lineup of games, I see myself giving up video games all together :U
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Went a bit off-topic there, but I had to let that out