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| Mosquiton 927th Post
 
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|  "Go Ninja Go Ninja GO!"
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Activision/From Software's Tenchu: Kurenai,
I hope Rikimaru is in it, otherwise I'm not gonna buy it.
I'm not too fond of an "All girl cast", and even less when 80% of that cast is composed of cute little girls (god, I hate cute little girls...).
Anyway, I hope Teshu is included, he's as badass (or even *gasps* more ) as Rikimaru.
Yeah... but one thing's for sure, they need to rework that combat system. It's just not quite up to ninja level.
The whole ninja trend trend holds for guy ninja too, aside from Ninja Gaiden there's I-Ninja and "sillyname here" the Magical ninja. There's a ninja in MGS Twin Snakes of course. Plus the ninja turtles. My ninja theory has been published on the web shortly following E3... though I was developing it much earlier.
About Red Ninja, I'd like to tell everyone that the developers had somehow ripped the concept for the hanging multi-tipped death-wire/whip of slicing RIGHT OUT OF MY SKULL before I was able to put together a crack dev team. It looks very cool though, so that makes me slightly less angry.
About Kunoichi, I'm sure you get to fight on top of the fighter jets too, check gameforms.com for an in game shot of her standing on a wing. The game looks quite good, one of my most anticipated games, but I can't help wondering what it might look like with better blood/dismemberment effects. But I'm content to wait on that.
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| dorikyasu 697th Post
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| "Re(2):Revenge of Ninja Gals?" , posted Sat 27 Sep 13:01:
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Like Rugal said, that idea could end up feeling detached from Ninja Gaiden. But it's Kasumi! How can anyone resist?? If it doesn't seem related to Ninja Gaiden, then they shouldn't pretend it's a sequel. Just make it a spin-off.
I doubt they'll end up making a game like that, though. Kasumi needs her own game!
Well, here's the scoop, straight from Tomonobu Itagaki of Team Ninja:
Itagaki: The Ninja Gaiden trilogy on the NES (Ninja Gaiden 1, 2, and 3) told a complete story. Therefore, we have absolutely no intention of trying to add something on to that story to make a fourth installment. In the first place, "Gaiden" means "another story; a side story". We'd like long-time Ninja Gaiden fans to think of this new Xbox game as another "side story", different from the NES games.
Itagaki: Ayane is in Ninja Gaiden. The story takes place before the events of the first Dead or Alive game -- two years before. Ayane at that time was 14 years-old, which should cause problems with the ESRB. (laughs) But since at that time she's not quite a ninja master yet, she serves as a messenger for Hayabusa. Actually she's a messenger to Hayabusa. She is part of the Mugen Tenshi Ryu society, and serving them, serves as a messenger to Hayabusa for what is to come.
Itagaki: We have already conceptualized an action game sequel. However, the main character has not yet been decided on. Of course, normally you would expect Ryu Hayabusa to be it, but who knows what will happen a year from now?
As you can see, this new Ninja Gaiden doesn't seem to have much to do with the original series. So I don't think it's too far fetched to imagine them coming out with a sequel of sort starring Kasumi.
"Let me tell you what entertainment is: Violence. Sex. Friendship. Death. Surprise. Betrayal. Dancing."
- Tomonobu Itagaki
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| pointystick 1165th Post
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| "Re(6):Revenge of Ninja Gals?" , posted Sat 27 Sep 14:38
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I grabbed this from Yahoo financial:
Red Ninja: End of Honor is an action-adventure title, developed by Tranji, a new studio formed by the Japanese developers New Corporation and Opus, which will feature a variety of innovative game-play features blending action, adventure, stealth, seduction and fighting. These elements have been placed in a historical Japanese environment with an event- driven story written by famed Japanese feature film director, Shinsuke Sato.
It doesn't mention if the game will be published in Japan (relavant to me, since I only have a JP PS2), or why they have an American publisher who usually only publishes American-developed games. Either way, it looks very impressive.
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| Grave 689th Post
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| "Re(2):This One Goes Out To The Stupid Gaijin!" , posted Sun 28 Sep 22:14
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Kunoichi has become Nightshade in the United States, because fans of a game full of names like Hotsuma, Moritsune, Akujiki, Hiruko, and Ageha are just so TOTALLY turned off by Japanese names. Expect the game to star a Californian ninja girl named Jennifer fighting her evil nemeses Tiffany and Steve... or for the name change to be moronic and counterproductive.
Hopefully this is just an unfortunate, but essentially meaningless change from Sega of America and not evidence of an attempt by Sega of Japan to turn Shinobi into a more mainstream (read: easier) game series.
Blarg. Worst name change in history. I'm still surpised Sega USA didn't change Otogi to something equally stupid.
Considering Sega didn't publish it in Japan, maybe From Software had a hand in preventing them from changing the name in other countries? Who knows...
Anyway, Nightshade is the name of an old, weird but cool NES game. I don't like to see titles reappearing on unrelated games! Not cool!
I wish the Kunoichi name would stay just so I could listen to people in video game stores mangle the pronunciation. Hell, I heard a story from a friend of mine in Arkansas about someone who tried to buy FF9 and asked for "Final Fantasy Ix", as in they read the roman numeral IX as "icks"... won't push anything past the average shopper. Whee.
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| Mosquiton 933th Post
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| "Kunoichi's "Easy Mode" + the name change" , posted Mon 29 Sep 12:04
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Kunoichi has become Nightshade in the United States, because fans of a game full of names like Hotsuma, Moritsune, Akujiki, Hiruko, and Ageha are just so TOTALLY turned off by Japanese names. Expect the game to star a Californian ninja girl named Jennifer fighting her evil nemeses Tiffany and Steve... or for the name change to be moronic and counterproductive.
Hopefully this is just an unfortunate, but essentially meaningless change from Sega of America and not evidence of an attempt by Sega of Japan to turn Shinobi into a more mainstream (read: easier) game series.
I've heard that "Nightshade" will have an easy-mode that helps players out with auto-targeting and etc.
I won't mind a checkpoint system (nothing has been said regarding this, just supposing) as long as you can't die and still get an S-Rank. Levels still look challenging from the vids.
Regarding the name change, if it helps Sega sell even a few more copies then that's cool with me. I bet the word kunoichi will at least appear in the script a few times. I'm thinking Shinobi's name recognition barely helped it, and half the people that remember the old arcade game were fanatical purists pissed about the series going 3D.
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| Grave 693th Post
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| "Re(1):Kunoichi's" , posted Mon 29 Sep 15:43
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I've heard that "Nightshade" will have an easy-mode that helps players out with auto-targeting and etc.
I won't mind a checkpoint system (nothing has been said regarding this, just supposing) as long as you can't die and still get an S-Rank. Levels still look challenging from the vids.
As long as easy mode isn't the only mode, and hopefully isn't the default, I will still be a happy boy.
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Regarding the name change, if it helps Sega sell even a few more copies then that's cool with me. I bet the word kunoichi will at least appear in the script a few times. I'm thinking Shinobi's name recognition barely helped it, and half the people that remember the old arcade game were fanatical purists pissed about the series going 3D.
Right. If, for whatever reason, the name helps it show up in more living rooms, cool. People who are fanatical about Shinobi will know what it is, no matter what. It's still silly, but if they think it's gonna work... oh well, as long as we're getting it, yeah?
Shinobi's name recognition worked in odd ways, I think. For me, it kind of angered me because it was in 3D, but damn, it looked cool. When I bought the game on its release and my friend and I finally got our hands on the actual gameplay... hell, we didn't really care about the old games. We played it for several hours following. Finding out that Joe Musashi was a hidden character was just an added cool bonus. Proof that it's possible to re-imagine a series without killing it. Now, I don't know how I feel about the new Altered Beast or Vectorman-named games, but once they're out I guess I can comment...
But yeah, I don't think Shinobi let anyone down too badly, and if it did, I'd like their names and addresses so I can step on their faces.
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Like when they renamed Dewprism as Threads of Fate in the US, thy still call Dewprism to "certain" item in the game itself.
I never understood this. In fact, I played Dewprism first, and when the English version was out and I was playing that, I kept accidently calling it Dewprism when talking to people, and in general, they knew what I was talking about, heh. Odd change... I'd actually like to know the logic behind it.
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