If you loved Ninja Gaiden then you really loved The Revenge of Shinobi. I actually rate this higher than the original Ninja Gaiden but I give Ninja Gaiden credit for having the better story. To me its one of the best ninja games to ever come out. With The Revenge of Shinobi I was interested more with its game play, which was very fun. Now thinking back I don't know how I beat this game. Its not a walk in the park to finish but I also remember that it wasn't impossible to beat neither like the impossi
ble Ninja Gaiden. The thing I liked the most was that Shinobi had powers of ninjitsu where as in Ninja Gaiden Ryu had a variety of different weapons. The ninjitsu powers that Shinobi had were the art of thunder, the art of fire, the art of floating, and the art of pulverizing. The most powerful ninjitsu was the art of pulverizing where Shinobi blows himself up killing everything on the screen. The downside is that you lose a life in doing so. Its worth it in crunch time situations like fight clearing a tough crowd or defeating a challenging boss. My favorite ninjitsu art was the art of fire. The screen gets filled with 5 strips of dragon fire and move horizontally across the path killing everything in sight. In the game you play as Joe Musashi, a master ninja whose wife is kidnapped and master slain by the Neo Zeed, a corrupt crime organization. This game takes place 3 years after the first Shinobi which I never played. Joe hears the last words from his dying master telling him of Neo Zeeds plot and sets of on a journey to save his wife. This would've been an even greater game if that had the little cut scenes like Ninja Gaiden did. The only thing you get in the game is a little synopsis after each level you finish. The game play completel
y makes up for it though. Shinobi fights in various environments. In the first level he fights at a province in Japan battling ninjas and samurais in dojos. The other levels include Tokyo, a Military Base, Detroit, Chinatown, New York, and the Neo Zeed stronghold. The bosses are pretty tough but manageable. There is some strategy to beating them. They even had the Terminator who turns into the green hulk when you get close to beating him. What's even crazier is that they had a boss in the 6 level that morphs into Spiderman and Batman. What's even more crazier than that is going up against Godzilla at the end of the 7th level. I didn't know what they were trying to go for at the time but whether it was coincidence or a gimmick, it kind of cool to see. My favorite thing about the game was the shurikin cheat. I don't think I would've been able to beat the game without this cheat. All you had to do was go to the options then go to the shurikin limit and set it to zero. After waiting awhile the
double zeros will turn into a figure 8 giving you infinite shurikins. The shurikins are best used when doing a somersault flip in the air by pressing the jump button then pressing it again when you were in mid-air. When doing the somersault you press the shurikin button and you get a spray of shurikins shooting out all at once. Doing that numerous times helped me beat this game. I was really hoping for a Shinobi remake like they did for Ninja Gaiden but it hasn't happened yet. They had a Shinobi game for the Sega Saturn and the PlayStation 2 but those weren't up to par. Especially the one on the PlayStation 2. You're fighting all kinds of weird stupid creatures on that one; everything but a ninja. So I'm still waiting for a decent remake of Shinobi if you hear me out there Sega! All in all, Shinobi is one of the best ninja games ever made. I'm gonna bust this game out and play it for old time sake. You should too.
If you loved Ninja Gaiden then you really loved The Revenge of Shinobi. I actually rate this higher than the original Ninja Gaiden but I give Ninja Gaiden credit for having the better story. To me its one of the best ninja games to ever come out. With The Revenge of Shinobi I was interested more with its game play, which was very fun. Now thinking back I don't know how I beat this game. Its not a walk in the park to finish but I also remember that it wasn't impossible to beat neither like the impossi
ble Ninja Gaiden. The thing I liked the most was that Shinobi had powers of ninjitsu where as in Ninja Gaiden Ryu had a variety of different weapons. The ninjitsu powers that Shinobi had were the art of thunder, the art of fire, the art of floating, and the art of pulverizing. The most powerful ninjitsu was the art of pulverizing where Shinobi blows himself up killing everything on the screen. The downside is that you lose a life in doing so. Its worth it in crunch time situations like fight clearing a tough crowd or defeating a challenging boss. My favorite ninjitsu art was the art of fire. The screen gets filled with 5 strips of dragon fire and move horizontally across the path killing everything in sight. In the game you play as Joe Musashi, a master ninja whose wife is kidnapped and master slain by the Neo Zeed, a corrupt crime organization. This game takes place 3 years after the first Shinobi which I never played. Joe hears the last words from his dying master telling him of Neo Zeeds plot and sets of on a journey to save his wife. This would've been an even greater game if that had the little cut scenes like Ninja Gaiden did. The only thing you get in the game is a little synopsis after each level you finish. The game play completel
y makes up for it though. Shinobi fights in various environments. In the first level he fights at a province in Japan battling ninjas and samurais in dojos. The other levels include Tokyo, a Military Base, Detroit, Chinatown, New York, and the Neo Zeed stronghold. The bosses are pretty tough but manageable. There is some strategy to beating them. They even had the Terminator who turns into the green hulk when you get close to beating him. What's even crazier is that they had a boss in the 6 level that morphs into Spiderman and Batman. What's even more crazier than that is going up against Godzilla at the end of the 7th level. I didn't know what they were trying to go for at the time but whether it was coincidence or a gimmick, it kind of cool to see. My favorite thing about the game was the shurikin cheat. I don't think I would've been able to beat the game without this cheat. All you had to do was go to the options then go to the shurikin limit and set it to zero. After waiting awhile the
double zeros will turn into a figure 8 giving you infinite shurikins. The shurikins are best used when doing a somersault flip in the air by pressing the jump button then pressing it again when you were in mid-air. When doing the somersault you press the shurikin button and you get a spray of shurikins shooting out all at once. Doing that numerous times helped me beat this game. I was really hoping for a Shinobi remake like they did for Ninja Gaiden but it hasn't happened yet. They had a Shinobi game for the Sega Saturn and the PlayStation 2 but those weren't up to par. Especially the one on the PlayStation 2. You're fighting all kinds of weird stupid creatures on that one; everything but a ninja. So I'm still waiting for a decent remake of Shinobi if you hear me out there Sega! All in all, Shinobi is one of the best ninja games ever made. I'm gonna bust this game out and play it for old time sake. You should too.
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