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Posts Tagged ‘Ninja Gaiden’

Forgotten gems: Shadow of the ninja & Ninja Gaiden Shadow

Often disregarded as a “Ninja Gaiden ripoff”, Shadow of the ninja remains one of the most proficient platformers i ever played on the NES. Developed by Natsume, a company better known for its farming simulations (!), SOTN, known as Blue Shadow in Europe and Kage in Asia, was a rock solid, fast paced ninja platformer [...]

Why Tomonobu Itagaki is a Smashing Gent

1UP: I’m just trying to imagine putting that to good use somewhere else in another game. Like using those waves for water battles in Ninja Gaiden 2. I could see Ryu Hayabusa jumping on top of waves and fighting seaborne enemies or something like that. TI: I think Ryu Hayabusa would look cooler maybe doing [...]