Once all nine kanji are lit, your character recites an incantation and learns a new skill. Sometimes, if you pull off a particularly gutsy stealth kill, you'll get an additional half of a kanji.

Near your health bar there is a row of nine kanji each time you stealth kill someone (or something), a kanji will light up. Best of all, these stealth kills are easy to execute: just catch your opponent off-guard, press the attack button, and watch the blood fly. Rikimaru slices his katana into his foes from various painful angles Ayame favors quick kicks, neck cracks, and throat slashes and Tesshu (the hidden character) just rips out his opponents' still-beating hearts. Each character has five or six different stealth kills that trigger depending on the angle at which you approach your opponent (from the front, sides, above, behind, etc.). And Tenchu's coolest features are the myriad ways you can kill your damnable foes. Together they must assassinate legions of ronin, ninjas, zombies, monks, clockwork guards, and other dastardly demons allied with Tenrai.Īs any Internet-savvy reader knows, ninjas are awesome because they can kill anyone they want. Rikimaru, presumed dead at the end of the first Tenchu, has returned to help his kunoichi compatriot, Ayame, foil the plans of Tenrai, an evil warlord. The Azuma are a mystical sect devoted to the virtuous Lord Gohda and visiting heavenly retribution on his enemies. The game tells the story of two ninjas of the Azuma clan: Rikimaru and Ayame. As Lazlow, the loudmouthed DJ of Grand Theft Auto III once said, 'I think we all went through a ninja phase when we were younger.' Tenchu allows you to revisit your ninja phase better than any other ninja game I've seen. Third in a series of stealth-action titles that began on PSone, Wrath of Heaven lets you play a ninja, nature's ultimate badass. There's something deeply satisfying about watching your opponents die a brutal, painful death, and Tenchu knows this. Burst vessels, severed body parts, hearts ripped out of chest cavities. What distinguishes Tenchu: Wrath of Heaven from all the Splinter Cells, Metal Gear Solids, Hitmans, and other stealth-action games? Buckets and buckets of blood.

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