Shinobi: Excessively Challenging and Fun.
CowboyKiller
85% score
Ok while the difficutly of this game might turn away the casual gamer. It is definatly a game that need's to be recoginized. Shinobi is a great looking hack and slash game. The scarf is one of the cool feature's about this game, leaving trail's as you whip around baddie's chopping them to peice's. The overall detail of the game is done very well for it's style, I mean it's classic shinobi, in 3D with some CG flair. The control's are easy to grab a hold of and play but to master is a completly different experience all together. Watching somone masterfully dash there way threw group's of enemy's can almost look like a work of art. The sound FX, though fight the game extreamly well do tend to get a touch repetitive. But it's a hack and slash game what do you expect. The OST fitting the NEO-japan vibe to the game. Overall this game is done extreamly good, but you will hear it time and time again. This puppy is a hard one, you will definatly grind some teeth going threw this one. And that could be accompanied with thrown controller's and curseing. The storyline is kind of out of this world, but it fit's the Shinobi genre. The game flow's nicely with change in baddies every now and then to keep you interested. If you are looking for a challengning game that you will definatly not beat right away this one's for you. If you feel you might be intimidated by the difficulty of the game you might want to put your money elsewhere. Overall just a great rage inducing game that I would suggest to anyone who is interested.
