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How did Shinobi end up in this [bad] game?

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 5 / 7
Date: May 29, 2003
Author: Amazon User

What has brought the once mighty Sega so low, that they would release this piece of.... gear, and try to pass it off as a game? Shinobi, perhaps the coolest ninja series ever, is forever annihilated by this poor excuse for a... whatever it is. Hotsuma's design is actually fairly decent as far as movement and effects. That's where the buck stops though. The levels were drawn by a near-sighted fourth grader who was able to eek out some rectangles. Seriously, if you blink, you get instantly lost in levels where every wall looks the same( grey, drab, flat), and you can't tell whether you are going forward or backward. As for the enemies, there is neither an attempt at or a pretense of any AI. Instead, as the levels progress, the enemies just get more and more hitpoints, and "invincible angles" (what a stupid feature) so that by sheer probability you are bound to mess up and die the next time you blink or sneeze. If you like aneurism induced comas, go ahead and buy this one. For all others, this is a pass.

Boring!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 4 / 6
Date: September 27, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Whatever happened to the Shinobi plotlines in the old Genesis games such as Shadow Dancer, Legend of Shinobi and Shinobi III? What happened to Joe Mushasi and his faithful dog sidekick? What about the evil Union Lizard Corp? None of that is in this. It's just generic hokum and the Ninja dude is the only one to save the day.

The graphics are very cool and the soundtrack amiable enough but the gameplay is so boring and gets very old and tired even by the second stage. It was cool slicing the bad folks in half the first few times but when the game takes time out to show them spurting blood for the fifty-millionth time it seriously gets on your nerves.

There's no variance or long-lasting appeal to this. It makes me long for the old-school Shinobi. Side-scrolling beat 'em ups such as Shadow Dancer are still better than this. It's very dull. It looks good but it plays poorly.

Shinobi, a waste of time

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 2 / 6
Date: July 22, 2003
Author: Amazon User

I have heard that people really liked the game play of Shinobi, but I felt it was really lacking in some areas. Althought the fights were very interesting and actually fun to go through, it ended up being the same thing over and over again. Also, the story progressed nicely, but it you really had no hand in how the story progressed. It was as if you were in a maze and your objective was to get to the other end of the maze, but the only problem is the maze only consists of a solitary line, going from beginning to end.

I just do not see any re-play value in the game!

Enemies pop up out of nowhere

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: December 19, 2002
Author: Amazon User

When i bought this game one of my expectations was that it would have some sort of stealth involved.I mean Ninja=stealth right? they were assasins and spies in fuedul japan, there had to be stealth involved. I was disappointed to find that all you do is go around slaughtering enemies, that literally pop up out of no where! And the reason you kill is, for revenge.Wow! How original. If you like the older sega and nintendo games then this game is perfect. You get: enemies pop out of nowhere, massive slaughtering, nintendo style techno, and levels with the same scenery.

beware of this game!!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 1 / 7
Date: November 21, 2003
Author: Amazon User

Beware!!!! i watch all the reviews and thought it was a good game WROGGGGGGGGGG i played for two stages and that was it for me.
lost all interest right away. so BEWARE this is a waste of money.
im not going to waste writing more because it doesnt ZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzZZZZ sorry i felt sleep, i try to play it again zzzzzZZZZZZZ

What the heck!

1 Rating: 1, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: November 16, 2002
Author: Amazon User

Okay? I see a lot of great reviews for this game. Maybe it's just me or maybe there is too much hype around this game. I just bought this game and the first thing I noticed is the lame graphics! then I noticed that the scenery is repetitive. Plus people say how shinobi looks cool???? I for one can't find any reason to consider this game worth while. And please don't compare it to Devil May Cry cause it is nowhere in it's league in graphics, gameplay or fighting mechanics. Hell there isn't even a similarity except for the fact that they are exclusive for PS2. This game really blows! It is so apprarent they just put this game together quickly slapped Shinobi on it and put it on the shelf to sell on name recognition alone. Let me tell you on it's merits alone in gameplay it's falls way short! The only thing I found worth while about this game is the CG cuts and that's it! Please rent and do not buy...I'm telling you now or you'll really regret it. Trust me!

Blecch - the first bad Shinobi game I've played

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 11
Date: January 03, 2003
Author: Amazon User

If you want to play the ultimate Shinobi game, go to the used game store near your house and pick up Revenge of Shinobi for the defunct Sega Genesis. Believe it or not, this game has more depth and... dare I say it... better graphics and sound (!...) than the new PS2 version.

I never got past the second level of this game, not because it was too hard, but because the game is insanely boring. Every bad guy in the first stage is exactly the same, and there are no other challenges except to stab and slash your way through them. The first boss is ridiculous, and you don't even get to [dispose of] it before some woman comes and helps you out.

Then when the second stage started, and it looked exactly the same as the first stage, with the same enemies and backgrounds, I said, "Enough with this."

Revenge of Shinobi had creativity, unique challenges, well-thought-out levels, good music, excellent graphics and more... none of which this version has. Perhaps if the creators of PS2 games would spend more time on gameplay and less time on cinema-style scenes between levels (that no one ever watches anyway), we'd get better games.

Disgrace to the original

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 2 / 5
Date: July 09, 2005
Author: Amazon User

I remembered playing Shinobi (the original arcade version) when I was a kid and it was the first game I ever beat. That was a great feeling and I'll never forget that. I was really looking foward to this and I bought it the first day it came out. All the other reviews are correct, after level 2 it got repeative (even the graphics)and really difficult. If anyone decides to play this I recommend gameshark codes, you'll need them. I like challenges but this was more frustrating than a challenge. I was very dissapointed with this, they could've done so much better. This game I wished I waited till the price went down, definately not worth the $50, but I went ahead and bought it anyways; bad mistake on my part. Some will like this and some will not.

Long time Shinobi fan dissapointed...

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 0 / 2
Date: March 08, 2004
Author: Amazon User

From a long time Shinobi fan, I am very dissapointed in this game. Its a pure action game with some cut scenes to highlight the hacking and slashing you will do throughout. Combos are intresting way to rack up points and power up your sword, but when you fight so many enemies at once and they block all frontal attacks, its gets very annoying. You end up jumping/dashing around everyone to try and get behind them but then the camera only does an adaquate job of keeping up and you lose half the enemies behind it - meaning attacks from the side you can't see.
Graphics are pretty nice for the PS2, but its definetly showing its age. The textures do get pretty bland and unimaginative though. Running through a city with pale purple neon lights and almost non-existant signs or moonlight or interactable objects besides a few boxes and vending machines is boring.
Sound is average, no tunes stick out in my head and I usually forget its even playing after ahwile.
Story is medicore at best - not really even worth mentioning.
Controls get the job done.

Even though I own all the other shinobi games on home consoles, I would have to recommend this as a rental. Go pick up one of the genesis titles for some better platforming action.

Hard

2 Rating: 2, Useful: 1 / 2
Date: January 02, 2004
Author: Amazon User

This game is way to hard and repetitive. Your sword eats away at your health if you don't feed it. The graphics aren't that good. The levels look alike. Hard to master the controls. The story is stupid.

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