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Legend of Kage
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Game only: the cartridge in a protective holder, no box or manual. The photos are of this exact cartridge — look them over closely for its condition, packaging and details. Every cartridge's shell, label and board are checked for authenticity when it comes into the store, and it's tested before it's listed. It ships in a collector's bag or a hard plastic case.
Item Description
Press the jump button in The Legend of Kage and the ninja launches clean off the forest floor, sailing past the treetops in a single bound. That leap is the soul of Taito's game: a fast, airy action title where Kage spends as much time in the canopy as on the ground, raining shuriken on the enemy ninja who drop out of the branches after him.
His mission is to rescue Princess Kiri, and the route runs through the forest, a secret passageway, up the face of a fortress wall and into the castle itself. Kage carries a short kodachi sword for close work and an endless supply of shuriken, and crystal balls found along the way upgrade him through new colors of clothing, granting bigger throwing stars or extra speed. Once he has powered up, a hit knocks him back to his starting red instead of finishing him, and grabbing a scroll stops him in meditation while the approaching enemies fall. The stages are short and packed with opponents, so runs are quick, frantic and very replayable.
Taito's original was a 1985 arcade game, and this version reached North American NES owners in 1987, right in the middle of the decade's ninja craze. The home version keeps the adventure going after a rescue, cycling back through the stages as the seasons change around Kage, so the forest never looks quite the same twice. Taito returned to the series in 2008 with Legend of Kage 2 on the DS.
Its high, floaty jumps take some getting used to, and NES players have always been split on it. Learn to work with that momentum, though, and it becomes a fast, satisfying score chase with a look and pace unlike the other ninja games on the system, and the original cartridge is the way to play it as it was in 1987.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1986
- Publisher
- Square Enix
- Developer
- Taito
- Genre
- Beat 'em up, Arcade
- Players
- Single player, Multiplayer, Co-op
About the game
The Legend of Kage is a port of the 1985 arcade game under the same name. The player is armed with a kodachi shortsword and an unlimited amount of shuriken. Grabbing a crystal ball causes the player character's Kage's clothes to change to the next level in colour and thereby attain certain powers (bigger shuriken and/or faster speed); if Kage is hit while in green or orange clothes, he does not die but revert to his normal red clothes. Grabbing a scroll causes Kage to stand still and meditate for several seconds while approaching enemies drop to the ground dead.
Summary from the IGDB community database — the condition and contents of this listing are described above and in the photos.
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Legend of Kage
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