Certain skills can be upgraded twice, enhancing the protagonist's abilities beyond those of the characters from previous games.Įnemies can hear footsteps if players run too close, and may hear them from a greater distance if they run on noisy surfaces such as puddles of water. The unlockable skills however are more varied, with most of them making their first appearance in the series while others return from previous games with some tweaks. Only one fighting style is available: a Ninjato that can either be set with slower but more damaging attacks (the same as Rikimaru's in previous games) or faster and weaker attacks with different animations. The main difference is that, as mentioned above, players create their own character and unlock new skills, items and clothing for him as the game progresses. Gameplay is relatively the same as the previous games in the series. Players use gold obtained by doing well in missions both in single player and multiplayer to purchase new aesthetic styles, abilities, items to use during missions, different special attacks to use in combat, in addition to combo-editing abilities. Characters also have different attributes (which are strength, agility, and health) which can be altered. Tenchu Z is the largest game in the series to date, containing 50 missions with different difficulty settings and objectives. There is no connection between Tenchu Z's plot and those in the previous games, nor are there any returning characters with the exceptions of Rikimaru and Lord Gohda. In between thwarting the country of Ogawara's plans, the protagonist also receives missions in which he eliminates evil people such as abusive monks and greedy merchants. As a new recruit in the Azuma Ninja Clan, the protagonist is sent to assassinate those who are assisting the country of Ogawara, including army generals and spies who have infiltrated the House of Gohda, as well as recover stolen items and rescue prisoners. The House of Gohda, where the Azuma Ninja Clan reside under the service of Lord Gohda, is on the brink of war with the neighboring country of Ogawara. It also features four-player cooperative play through Xbox Live.
It is different from previous games in the series in that the player creates their own ninja characters, then builds up their skills as they play through the game rather than choosing from a small selection of pre-made characters, as they take orders from the series' previous main male character, Rikimaru. GPU – if a game doesn’t work, try changing the graphics driver from “any” to one of those listed.Tenchu Z (published in Japan as " Tenchu Senran") is an action-adventure stealth video game developed by K2 LLC and published by FromSoftware in Japan and Microsoft Game Studios worldwide for the Xbox 360 in 2006. License_mask – Change to “1” if playing XBL games leave at “0” for disc-based X360 games (Turn Demos Into Full XBLA Games)ĭraw_resolution_scale – “1” is the default X360 resolution, “2” will double the resolution, “3” will triple it and so on. You shouldn’t mess with these if you don’t know what they do! Here are a few settings you may want to change: Here you’ll see a bunch of options you can change, with information on the right side about what each one does. In the “Documents” folder (default: C:\Users\username\Documents\Xenia), a few new files should appear, including “ .” Open this file with Notepad. To change things like resolution, you need to manually enter this information in the Xenia config file.įor the config file to appear, just open Xenia once, then close it. The next one down from that is “state-gameplay,” but don’t expect a seamless experience.Īfter Installation: Select “File -> Open” to load your first game into Xenia. The ideal tag you’re looking for is “state-playable,” which means the game runs pretty smoothly from start to finish. Here you’ll see developers submitting information about how playable games are. The best place to get the most up-to-date list of games compatibility on Xenia is to go to the games compatibility list on the Xenia Github. Before diving in with Xenia, you probably want to have an idea of what games you can actually run with it (assuming you have the recommended Nvidia GTX 1070 GPU to run games smoothly in the first place).