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Shadow of the Ninja
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Ninja Gaiden had the cinematic cutscenes, but Shadow of the Ninja had something Ryu Hayabusa never offered on the NES: a second ninja fighting beside you. Natsume's 1990 action platformer drops two masters of the Iga clan, Hayate and Kaede, into a future America ruled by Emperor Garuda, who has seized the nation in 2029 and walled himself up in a stronghold in its largest city. Your job is simple and deadly: get inside and end his reign.
The combat has real texture. The katana is fast and brutal up close, while the kusarigama, a sickle on a chain, swings out diagonally and horizontally to catch enemies at a distance. Pick up the same weapon again and it grows stronger, up to three levels, but taking too much damage knocks it back down, so every hit stings. Shuriken and hand grenades add limited-use firepower, and both ninjas can grab onto overhangs and travel hand over hand beneath them, slipping under hazards and over enemies. When you have more than half your vitality left, holding the button summons a thunderstorm that strikes every enemy on screen at the cost of roughly half your health, a gamble that can save a boss fight or doom you.
Five levels split into fourteen stages pile on sub-bosses and mechanical monstrosities, and there is a clever twist at the end of each fight: when a boss explodes, standing close to the blast restores your health. Continues are limited and shared in two-player mode, which keeps co-op tense and cooperative in the truest sense. Nintendo Power even featured the pair in a 1991 “Weird Heroes” article, billing them as a first male-and-female team in gaming.
The pedigree runs deep. The music is by Iku Mizutani and Kouichi Yamanishi, the game was released in Japan as Yami no Shigotonin Kage and in Europe as Blue Shadow, and a planned Game Boy version was reworked into Tecmo's Ninja Gaiden Shadow. In 2024 the game returned as the full remake Shadow of the Ninja: Reborn, but the 8-bit original is where Hayate and Kaede's fast, tight, two-player brand of ninja action began.
Fast factsgame data via IGDB
- Released
- 1990
- Publisher
- Taito
- Developer
- Natsume Co., Ltd.
- Genre
- Platformer, Adventure
- Players
- Single player, Multiplayer, Co-op
About the game
Shadow of the Ninja, originally released in Japan as Yami no Shigotonin Kage, and later released in Europe as Blue Shadow, is a 1990 futuristic ninja-themed side-scrolling action game by Natsume for the Nintendo Entertainment System.
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