*casually btfos Sekiro before it even existed*

*casually btfos Sekiro before it even existed*

SHINOBI'S BACK

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Ninja game != Superninja game
If you want to compare Sekiro and Tenchu that's fine but this? Really?

I have this game and have never played it
Is it like the ninja gaiden games?

No you can literally run around on walls and you spend most of the time in midair
Also your diabeetus and have to keep killing or you ded
Stylish as fuck and great music, can't really compare it to any other action game, OP is desperate for attention

"am i cool yet Yea Forums?"
i doubt anyone in this thread has played it

>I have this game and have never played it
imagine being this much of a colossal fucking faggot. holy shit.

its fucking sick bro play that shit

Friendly reminder that the 3DS game is extremely underrated
It's basically Shinobi III 2.0

i remember playing this and doing pretty good until the subway level with dogs, gonna play it again once in finish my ps1 backlog

The only issue I have is that since it's an early 3DS game, YO STREETPASS SHIT.

Luckily, all you need to do is just turn on streetpass for the game.

I just heard the music looking at this

>literally doing the entire game
Fuck that mechanic.
I would like it more if your health wasn't always depleting.

It got nightshade

Get gud

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Which wasn't a game with a better budget that tightened things up.

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>SEKIRO DOESN'T NEED EASY MODE GIT GUD!!
>OY VEY SHINOBI TOO HARD FUCK THIS GAME!!!

Why are Fromdrones so absolutely pathetic?

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When someone say ninja i always think of Joe/Hotsuma.
I like the fact that you can one shot all the bosses in this game.

>I'm an idiot and I stink and I eat poop
Why did you post that?

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Oh please.
By default, a mechanic that depletes your health the entire game is the literal use of "Artificial Difficulty. "

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LITERALLY git gud

You get that life drain when you don't kill enemis.
If you don't like that mechanic just play nightshade.

>DOESN'T COUNT REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

super duper fun time friendly reminder that ALL 2d games are objectively bad and 2d only existed due to hardware limitations in the past.

Shinobi had an easy mode for one. Okay only in the Japan version but it counts.

youtu.be/0T9aPaFL0KU?t=27

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"Artificial difficulty" is a stupid term. The life-draining mechanic helps establish the brisk efficiency the game wants out of the player, along with the tate system.

How fucking DARE you shitheads use one of my favorite games of all time for your retarded shitpost wars?

You digusting little turdlets.
Stay off my fucking lawn.

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All I remember of this game was the giant spider boss and its minions. I spent three days trying to make a perfect run of the fight and still remember as one of my few crowning achievements in vidya tate-ing the ever living fuck out of that 8 legged piece of mutated nippon archnabitch.

Fuck the final boss and fuck those fucking dogs.
Otherwise, the game is perfect. Ageha is a slut.

Holy shit, I was surprised when I saw that thumbnail. This is honestly my favorite ninja game of all time. I played it so many times and even unlocked Joe Musashi. Gameplay, design, combat is all good, but the music is the most phenomenal.

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I never understood people when they said this was insanely difficult or even impossible. Except for the final boss, everything is very manageable and sometimes even easy. You just have to understand the 'tate'-system, which should be possible for everyone unless you have the cognitive level of a 3-year old.

>tfw that awesome moment comes up when you fight Moritsune for the first time and the neon sign behind him brakes and changes the letters to 'KILL YOU'

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Both games are so drastically different it makes me think you've never played either. What the fuck is wrong with you, retard?

Its like NG before NG.

You can run on walls and the gameplay is tight as fuck and its retardly challenging. But theres less focus on combos and there not as much fluid control when moving your character.

If you liked NG you will like this, but its not the same

>running around for 10 minutes just looking at his cape

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You're forgetting those dogs in Chapter 2.

Not really, they're more about timing than improvising and they're much slower, but still really challenging. They also involve more platforming and some of the bosses are fucking bullshit, especially the last boss.

>boring game
>remember very little

Pick one

>Moritsune for the first time
He's really easy to cheese. It's great. I laughed when I found out he could fall off the building and take damage from it.

The thing with the last boss is that it isn't really difficult. You can survive half an hour without dying on him, but your attacks do so little damage that you'd probably need 1000 attacks to kill him (not joking).

For anyone who never saw the final boss: he's flying and encased in an energy sphere. To somehow damage him, you have to combo some talismans that he releases from time to time, but you also need to have him teleport right in front of you right as you combo the last talisman, or your attack does almost zero damage. The frustration is because destroying a talisman will reward you with health, thus cutting down the tension in this boss fight to zero. Even the people who speedrun this game count on luck to beat this boss fast, because if you don't tate his ass in the first try (40 seconds in), you have to keep fighting for 7 more minutes to have another chance at it.

I still gotta play this, does it emulate well? Did no death runs of arcade Shinobi and both the Shadow Dancers recently, awesome games

Sluts ruin everything.
Also who the fuck left a cursed sword in the reach of children

that's what i remember, it was a generic videogame, some mashing, some generic platforming and some bosses, maybe i'd remember it more if it had done something unique i guess

I found the problem: you're a brainlet that should be gassed.

You forgot to say the talismans self-destruct and you can only hit them from one side.
I agree with it being based on luck, though. Look at this guy:
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He plays like a complete ass and manages to hit a perfect Tate.

this plays like a c of d budget title and was fucking ass

but you didn't give me any reasons as to why i was wrong

Wait WHAT?!

Shinobi 3 is one of my favorite games... I had no idea this existed. Are there any decent 3ds emulators?

Shinobi Legions also follows the Shinobi III structure, but not as good, feels sluggish and floaty. It's also more focused on swordplay than shurikens.

>doing pretty good until the subway level with dogs
That's where most people ragequit. They're not that hard though, just stubborn.

>that final boss is unironically impossible
It's all about timing and patience (just like the rest of the game). Dodge all the shit until enough of the flying paper things have spawned, then try to plan & time your way slashing through them. Once you fucked them all up, hope the boss is near enough so you can hit him full charge.

Laughable little clowns. I found that you can easily determine who's a braindead monkey by seeing if they have trouble with this game. It's literally an easy game unless you are mentally challenged. Sorry, but it's true.

Me too bro. It's especially sad when you think about how this was supposed to reboot and revive the franchise.

I also have Nightshade and while it's a neat game (Hibana is sexy af btw), it lacks the art style, atmosphere and gameplay of the original. Nightshade feels more like a casual arcade version. I remember playing with the unlocked roller-skate costume in the tokyo city levels was nice.

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>spent hundreds of hours playing this game
>have 2/3 level world records in it
fuckin love shinobi

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wasn't legions also developed by overworks?

>Hibana
I don't recall too much about Nightshade. But she was one of the few things I like from it.

And that umbrella girl.

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Citra exists, but when I last tried emulating Shinobi 3DS I didn't have much success (though admittedly I didn't fiddle with it all that much because I own the game and have played through it a bunch). It's not exactly like Shinobi III, through. There are some significant changes. The biggest is the parrying system, which is something you'll need to use effectively in order to not get your shit kicked in. The game also emphasizes sword attacks much more than shuriken. I'd say it's a bigger leap from Shinobi III than Shinobi III was from Revenge. It's a great game though. I recommend it.

I also recommend the Game Gear games for anybody reading.

Nightshade felt to me like one of those Saturday night action movies where a secret agent pursues a ninja, and the only thing about ninjas in the movie are a sword and shurikens. Something like that.

>Even the people who speedrun this game count on luck to beat this boss fast, because if you don't tate his ass in the first try (40 seconds in), you have to keep fighting for 7 more minutes to have another chance at it.
That's not entirely accurate. I can't remember the exact time, but a second full set of 8 talismans appear all at once about ~1/2 minutes after you kill the very first talisman of the first set. Obviously in a speedrun you can't lose 1/2 minutes, but it's definitely not a 7 minute wait.

The luck you need to beat him reliably also isn't THAT bad. You just need him to do his teleporting attack at some point after the 8 talismans are out. After that you're golden and it's 100% player skill.

I did this 3 years ago, so I remember it almost perfectly. I only died twice (30~40 minutes each try), and almost every time I got the 8 talismans, he teleported and did that lightning attack. I said fuck it and tried whittling down his health little by little, then once I hit 45% of his health or something, I somehow scored a perfect Tate. I'm pretty sure it was 7 or 8 minutes in, because I still have that video recorded somewhere.

But like I said, the frustration isn't because it's hard. It's because there's no tension, since you can survive almost indefinitely.

that's what nightshade is for

but desu because there's no tension, the game is much more boring for it

I remember this comment from that guy who did the world record (I think?). It's the guy who said he felt suicidal, if that rings any bells. Anyway, he said that if you don't score the tate the first time, you need to wait 7 minutes for another perfect chance. I'll try to find that video or page, because that's probably where that user got the "7 minute" estimate from.

>That music.
I remember listening to the OST while lifting weights back then, kek. Still have it on my MP3 player actually.

This one was good too: youtube.com/watch?v=aVnKTYc5zuA

This is the first game I played on ps2. I was so poor i couldn't afford a memory card so every time I wanted to progress in the game I had to play from the beginning.

Eventually I did beat it in one sitting.

You kick then to open them up. Stealth dash and then cut. They should be the first ones out of you want to up your sword strength for the next tate.

This game, due to some unknown alignment of cosmic factors, managed to not only have an "infested" chopper battle but have it worse than DMC2, let that sink in for a second.

I went and looked up the video where I learned it from originally. The second batch of talismans spawns 30 seconds after the death of the first talisman.

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>But like I said, the frustration isn't because it's hard. It's because there's no tension, since you can survive almost indefinitely.

This is absolutely true. It's an absolutely terrible fight for no real reason. All they'd have to do to fix it is make shurikens stun him or make it so you can hit him while he's doing attacks as long as your sword is charged or something. If you play the EU version of the game, there's actually an easy mode that replaces super mode too, where you can just kill him with 3 fire ninpo hits to his back.

The problem with the dogs isn't fighting them alone - it's that if you somehow touch their fucking sword, even while fighting something else, Hotsuma gets taken aback like he just saw the ghost of his brother or something.

>2003
Makes me feel old af. That was even before the MySpace/emo era. I remember at the time I played this, I also imported whole boxes full of Chinese bootleg anime and JAV DVDs. I remember being stoked about seeing Sora Aoi's first few movies.

Anyone know how good/bad Shinobi runs on PS3?

It's fine. There's a weird graphical glitch I see sometimes when you use the fire ninpo, but it doesn't affect gameplay.

>dmcfag
>casual shitter
as expected, but what can you expect from someone used to play games with passive enemies who simply exist to float and get hit mid air until they die

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I can deal with that. Still annoyed Sony isn't pushing harder to have PS4's PS2 library at least match that of the PS3. Oldie-but-goodie for $10 are always swell to have kicking around

>I was so poor i couldn't afford a memory card
I knew so many kids back then with the same problem. You either couldn't afford to buy one or didn't WANT to spend so much money on something so stupid, which is why most ended up buying 3rd party cheap trash memory cards.

>"infested" chopper battle
To be fair this was something very 90s about these games and which we'll probably never see again. I mean who would make a game nowadays with a ninja fighting a rocket-shooting zombie helicopter???

She had a good ass too.

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Oh fuck off, fag.
I bet you never even played Dante Must Die mode in your life, let alone Hell and Hell mode.
You don’t know shit about aggressive enemies.

i remember being at part where i have to keep on fighting guys or my life would die. someone stole my ps2 memory card.

stop pretending it's any harder
>b-bbut the challenge is making the screen say you're epic badass

Hibana is 10/10 prime grade ninja fuck material

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>worse than DMC2
How do you figure?

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I had fun with this game but it's definitely way easier because you were super fast in that game.

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What struck me most about shinobi is how fucking dark the story is. It's not over the top in any particular way, although Hiruko can ham it up at times so there was always this horrible dread behind all the killing.

too much ass

>it's like NG before NG

Ninja Gaiden came out in the 80's you retarded faggot.

You're just overcompensating because DMC5 failed to top DMC3SE

Obviously he means the Xbox Ninja Gaiden, you nitpicking retard.

As a side-scroller game. Shinobi started out exactly the same way dumbass.

nice sperg virgin response

That's still far from a ghetto booty

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This fucking stage, gave me so much issues.

>When you fuck up trying to jump from wall to wall or fighting in mid air over a pit

>your own weapon drains your health when you are not killing enemies
Imagine how much the game journos would cry if this game was released today, begging for an easy mode, callings elitists bad peopled, etc.

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jesus i remember this game controlling like dogshit, never thought i'd see Yea Forums praising it

I mean you are killing your clan and friends.
And in the end you die and what is worse in nightshade they recover the fucking sword.

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I wish we could have had good 3D fan porn animations back then.

>not destroying akujiki

probably leaving it open for a sequel but oh well

Why not? It was overall well praised, I don't remember the controls being bad at all but I do remember some of the platforming being annoying do to the camera.

The camera control is awful (and I'm not someone that usually complains about camera control in games) but everything else is pretty smooth and works as the game needs it to.

Who's this artist?

Kenseiden and Shinobi are both more Kino than Sekiro can ever hope to be.

>Imagine how much the game journos would cry if this game was released today
They'd all give it a 3/10 and call it buggy and 'unplayable'.

>how fucking dark the story is
>you are killing your clan and friends
Another reason why they wouldn't make a game like this today. Games today are like school kids trying to be edgy with lots of blood and gore, but no real substance behind the killing that could genuinely cause drama.

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You can tell its a Dreamcast game that was moved to PS2.

Fuck off with this shitty c++ statement

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3D fan porn is all fucking garbage made by people without a shred of artistic sense. SFM killed decent porn.

They tried that. It didn't take so well. Akujiki's kind of a dick like that.

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it would literally be cuphead.webm except they die after 2 minutes

How can you tell?

Well the giant ass Sega logo is a pretty good clue to start off with.

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Yeah obviously I was referencing the 16 bit NES side scroller to a fully 3D hack and slash game. Use your fucking brain for once shit dick

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It can't be broken not even demons want to touch that shit.
But yeah probably just to make a sequel nigthshade was good so no complains here.

are those hooves?

Good. Playing this shit with a Dreamcast controller would be a nightmare

DAAAAAAAAAAAMN SON,... I've never seen that CM before. Sweet.

Imagine how that suit seals in the flavor after a long day of fighting.

>Not knowing Homare
C'mon man.

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>Akujiki translates to evil eater

>Those side nets exposing her hip
You just know she's a slut. The character designers did really well.

She's a ninja, user. Of course she's a slut.

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so does it emulate well

I love how much she hates her job and treats it like a person who hates their job as well.
>Fucking Ninja clans always fighting over damned artifacts. I just want to go home and kick back. Fucking mondays.

I mean there's a whole bunch of other stuff like honor and sorrow there too but still.

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does it have an easy mode?

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That's official artwork from Sega, right? Such a juicy ass.

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So the game starts off on the back of a jet and that's all I need to know.

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Like bayonetta.
And hibana is voiced by the same voice actress.

Not really. The focus is more on going fast than dwelling on the combat. If you're hitting most enemies more than a few times you're probably doing it wrong.

Yeah, and it flies through a city at full speed.

>hibana is voiced by the same voice actres
Oh snap, I never knew.

2D Sprite Shinobi was better.
This redesign is pretty gay and we never got based Yuzo Music again.

>Coulda had Taki and given my dream ninja babe team up
>Instead we got shitty Natsu

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Nightshade seemed so fucking hype, but I just couldn't hack the second level boss.

Was that worm? The subway was a bit of a low point but the rest of the game is pretty cray.

It was a bitch but I beat it after a couple hours of repeatedly trying. I have a formula for beating shit:

>keep trying until I get a bit annoyed
>start losing hardcore
>get frustrated and stop playing
>leave it paused for like half an hour to fuck off and do something else
>come back
>win in the next try flawlessly

I became the true Shinobi™.

Nah, the thing that rolls around on the rooftop, you're supposed to tate the adds and then hit the center for max damage but I'm a spazz so I couldn't do it properly.

Just today i was playing Shinobi III on Genesis
I got to Stage 8 until i ran out of credits.
tfw

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PS2 Shinobi was so fucking based

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Man looking it up on gamefaqs, nightshade is loaded with neat extras in the way of unlockable characters and costumes. You can unlock Hotsuma, Joe Musashi and Hisui the umbrella girl and there's a lot of time attack shit.

I should replay this

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Shinobi by Platinum Games when?

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>Shinobi by Platinum Games when?
This please

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Hopefully never. It doesn't sound like a good idea to me at all.

Yeah lets just touch the evil magic sword, what can go wrong. Though I guess in fairness this is the sort of thing you should at least rope off.

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How do you fuck that up?

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By being a fat fuck

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youtube.com/watch?v=VDNGagnfSfs

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Goddamn, Tengu!

The end.

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Nice

>Goddamn, Tengu!
This

This mediocre game is being memed into relevance here quickly.

I had a tengu problem once. Fuckers kept going threw my garbage cans at night, making all kinds of racket. Had to call animal control and they set up a trap. I think they dropped the fellas off inna woods somewhere.

I think you mean, these kick ass games are finally getting some proper recognition.

>I think you mean, these kick ass games are finally getting some proper recognition.
Based

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Thank you user.

Oh no, you captured the helpless slutty ninja, now what will you do.

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>it's that if you somehow touch their fucking sword, even while fighting something else, Hotsuma gets taken aback like he just saw the ghost of his brother or something

Easiest method I've found is just using the charged dash. Hold down square and you charge the blade, release and you dash to your target and a good distance behind them. Pierces guard, hits multiple enemies and easily kills weaker enemies as long as you have like level 1 sword

man the art for these games so cool. I'd like to hang it on my wall.

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>I only died twice (30~40 minutes each try), and almost every time I got the 8 talismans, he teleported and did that lightning attack.

bro use magic. The wind sword projectile scales with your tate. It won't be as strong as a normal hit but you'll deal a huge chunk of damage with a bunch of swings at max tate. This is how I beat the annoying moth bitch when I'm lazy

Can I switch places with her?

>I post this in every thread I get a chance to mention this game but that final boss is unironically impossible
>mfw I literally one shot the final boss the first time I fought him
The stars aligned for that one, I must admit.

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Cute

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well this thread quickly degraded to waifu fapping

wah wah wah

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>strider chruazy game never ever

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The newish Strider was pretty cool

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Perfect

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this is how you use a scarf

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Cool

Thank you again.

45205

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Fromdrones like you are worse than DMCfags could ever hope to be. Enjoy your R1 spam games.

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Bump

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man i love shinobi but let's not pretend it has particularly aggressive or interesting enemies

why are umbrellas so cool as weapons

Agreed youtu.be/b2Qpwo8Utis

>nearly an hour
So Im gonna watch it but Im getting a snack first

Same but im old enough to remember playing this at launch. Shit game and an insult to the series.

Just beat monkey kratos. Took me way too long to do, easy once I got the rhythm

The dogs are absolutely that hard
they're the hardest enemies in the god damn game and it makes no sense

Yes I've beaten it on normal and half of it on hard before I got bored

of all games you picked this one? okay so youre autistic then. interesting flex.

it's one of the best games on the ps2.

Nigga you can't code shit! Don't even front

Shinobi is a pretty good game that flows well and has some uniquely satisfying mechanics

makes sense to me

My then-GF blistered her thumbs playing this game and it was incredible to watch, she was fucking addicted

I don't know if Platinum is a very good fit. They're more about over-the-top wackiness. Shinobi has always had crazy shit in it, but the games have mostly emphasized precise play, not bombast. Shinobi does not need to be cuhrazy.

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The whole Platinum meme really wore it's welcome out. I like a good number of their games but they're not the end all be all of action some claim

Platinum makes weightless shovelware garbage. All of their games suck

t. never played tenchu or shinobi

In all fairness, Shinobi and Nightshade aren't exactly weighty themselves. It's not like they're supposed to be either.

Honestly I really do miss when games could just be dumb games. Im just tired of all this Oscar bait crap. I'd even take what plat does over another last of us or modern tomb raider

Shadow Dancer on Genesis is the best Shinobi game

>retarded fucking magic arm that spits fire and shit
>regular ninja

k

It's not. the level design and enemies are more like the arcade game and shadow dancer. I fucking hated it an the retarded counter/ranking system.

Someone should make an infographic with good Ninja games.

I would, but then I'd have to kill you.

PS2 Shinobi was my first game in the series when it launched. Never had a Sega system growing up, but I got Nightshade & Shinobi 3DS because of it and was not disappointed. It's a really slick game when played well, and I think it's what got me into stuff like NG and DMC in the first place.

My first Shinobi was Shinobi X. You know the one with the digitized graphics. Shit was weird, man.

I hope you at least got to play the EU version with the better OST

Damn, you're right. Shit was weird.

I did not. Didn't even know it had a different OST till a decade and a half later.

rad OST

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Sega always did okay by music. I heard Yuzo is coming back to do the background music for the upcoming mini MD

This game was boring 6th gen crap

>If you want to compare Sekiro and Tenchu that's fine but this? Really?
No that's really note fine.

i still have a save on super difficulty on the last stage. i come back to it once or twice a year trying to beat it.

Any luck?

no i still haven't beat it. idk if its my PS2 or the game in general but framerate tanks when all 8 talismans spawn and i have to tate the boss. ill have to extract the save and try on an emulator.
regardless, i cant kep trying for too long though, since you have to beat the stage every time you load the game before you get to the boss, and i cant imagine playing on super without the combo cancel, which is absolutely destroying my fucking thumb. by the time i reach the boss my hand is blue.

You're getting old, man.

how did you know
im 29

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> 29
That's adorable

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its horrible.
too old to be great at video games, too young to be the old man that NTRs high schoolers

You can be the newlywed guy who gets ntr'd though.

That would imply he can even be wed in the first place

I think I dropped the game at that part. I was ok with fighting, but fighting over bottomless pits? Nah im too casual for that

>your ninja clansmen were all killed by this resurrected evil Japanese wizard
>and he revived them as zombies loyal to him with all their ninja skills and personality intact
>and you have to kill them all
>also, you have to unseal this evil sword that keeps sucking your soul if you don't feed it the souls of bad guys because it's the only thing that can kill the evil wizard
Shinobi's story is pretty damn dark.

shit never turns out well for ninja clans. Frankly Im amazed we ever manage to scrounge up to actually form one.

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>Your dumbass friend is the reason why this shit happened to start with
>Even if you beat evil wizard dude you still need to get rid of said sword too
>You can't just seal it because it will take your life too
>If you want to live you'll have to kill shit for the rest of your existence
>Kill yourself anyway and shatter the blade so at least nobody else can fuck with it
>Some assholes in the future reform it and super cyborg is using it

>also, you have to unseal this evil sword that keeps sucking your soul if you don't feed it the souls of bad guys because it's the only thing that can kill the evil wizard
So that was Hotsuma's deal, but what was the excuse for the mechanic with Hibana? I'm sure it was stated but I plain forgot.

Hibana never really wielded the sword for most of the game and there's some stuff about being equal parts Hotsuma being in the thing and her having more mental fortitude. I suppose a sequel would have expanded on that but that never happened unless X Zone said something.

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>Sequel
Does SegaWow or whatever it's called now even exist anymore? It's sad that this particular direction Shinobi took may never be revisited again.

The best unlock is that extra costume with the roller skates because it lets you run faster.

I always felt like this game was hard for no reason.

No idea. I think it's kind of in that weird spot where it will always be overshadowed by it's more "nostalgic" genesis predecessors so any new shinobi will build off that, outside maybe a cheeky reference.

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mocap shit is always fun to see

do you have more shinobi related stuff

It being a game is reason enough

As a big Tenchu fan AND a big action game fan, I'm gonna try this game for the first time. Wish me luck, Yea Forums

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Gannbatte 頑張って

Good luck. Shinobi can (And probably will) push your teeth in sometimes. But it's fun.

Man, these cutscenes are so wack. I love them.

I had to get a new copy myself recently. It's a bit depressing how cheap it was but also really convenient

Good music though

OH SHIT! This music fucking rules! The game's a little straight forward though. Does the combat open up later?

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no. It's not a long game.

It's a pretty simple game in the end. What you see is pretty much what you get. But it works.

The combat isn't meant to be complex, the focus is on maintaining your speed and tate, which becomes pretty much vital in the later parts of the game.

I played the shit out of Shinobi on a demo disk I had but for the life of me I could not find it in stores anywhere. I really should get round to picking it up now.

I'M THE SHINOBIEST

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Killing bosses in one hit.

For some reason I remembe the snake dude with the giant white lasers being much harder than the final boss.

>trying to beat the game on Super as Joe
>keep getting torn apart by the subway dogs
Fucking hell, I'm half tempted to just restart as Moritsune.

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You probably should. Joe sucks in shinobi and nightshade I think.

>only wearing one sock
What does this mean?

Hotsuma stole the other one right off her foot without her noticing.

>having a gf that plays these type of games
>not marrying her
What happened user?