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Top Comments of this video!! :3
It's not an especially important thing, but I always liked how Shinobi managed to have a darker visual style while still being really colorful. I know that's a bit of a weird thing to note, but I always thought it was cool.
...You leanr to appreciate the visuals of each level because you're gonna be seeing them a lot after dying and retrying, that's for sure.
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30 years old and I still remember the "Shinobi is back" tag line from the trailer
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This is an extremely underappreciated game that deserves its place in character action game history.
People who meme about Souls games being hard need to play this.
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The OST for this game fucking slaps. I'm still listening to Henbou, Moritsune, Enjo 20 years later.
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One of the most underrated ps2 games on the console. Hotsuma and his scarf is one of my favorite ninja character designs along with strider and ryu hayabusa
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This was an admirable attempt at breaking into the genre, its just a shame it never got successfully iterated on.
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Dude, I always loved Shinobi, and Kunoichi, and miss seeing the dude’s scarf all over the place, leaving illusions around, slicing up so many enemies within a minute.
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This, along with Tenchu: Wrath Of Heaven, Kingdom Hearts, and Final Fantasy X were my first PS2 games. And after all these years, Shinobi remains my favorite.
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This was my VERY first game along with Ratchet & Clank. I played them both as demos at first when I was barely 5 years old and they stand as my foundation for my gaming understandings, skills, patience, and appreciation to this day
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I never in my life, suffered so much to beat an end boss like Shinobi and I was able to have a 9+ string combo and killed him in style...toke me so long too. Man It almost cathartic reading comments and seeing that I'm not the only one who suffered from this boss
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My first and favorite PS2 game I ever owned. This and Nightshade/Kunoichi will forever hold a place in my heart. The entire soundtrack goes hard too.
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One of my favorite games of all time. I remember getting the 112 Issue of Gameinformer in the mail and reading the Feature on upcoming ninja games and Shinobi was featured there. I was so entranced by the teased red scarf aesthetic i started saving all the money i could as a 12 year old from chores and birthdays etc so i could buy it as soon as it came out. The day it came out i got my mom to drive me to the game store to buy it for me, getting home booting it up being entranced by the music and the at the time awesome graphics. The difficulty of the game soon became apparent but i didn't care i buckled down and made myself Git Gud because dang it i was a Ninja!
Truly one of the most Nostalgic games for me.
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I love this game, it's super simple but it's all about execution. The dash mechanic is still one of the best implemented yet, it feels perfect and with that scarf...
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Character designs in this game were so badass. There is also always a monster boss fight in one level followed by a humanoid boss fight in the next (Stage 1-A > 1-B, 2-A > 2-B etc.) Rarely it's double humanoid fight.
The final boss of this game is like a prototype, rom-hack version of metal gear revengeance bosses. You start with no music and when the first phase is done it starts slapping.
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One of my all time favorites. Even with the aneurysm inducing final boss.
Tip for the hardest difficulty with the boss.
Get to him with all the scrolls(easier said than done) and use the invincibility power to kill the annoying talisman monsters with the wonky hit boxes. It makes u fasterI think, and you don't have to worry about their fireballs and accidental hits messing up tour tate attempt or even killing you. Start the powerup on the later batches only when six or eight enemies have appeared on screen, though, so you can make sure the tate or hit does enough damage. Also, if you die reset the run before the game over screen so you keep the scrolls and can try again. I managed to do it in roughly an hour that way after DAYS of trying with no success. That's as close as you'll get to an "easy" way to beat him. It's still pretty hard,though.
If I can spare someone the days and hours of frustration I had before figuring that out, I'm glad.
Have fun
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14:00 Honestly Nightshade makes a lot of quality of life updates which would have made the first game feel even better like the ‘air kick’. I would argue even the camera was done better in Nightshade. Hibana as a character in dialogue gets annoying outside of a few awesome moments and the subplot with her, Jimushi, and Hisui is so pre-teen.
ALSO, you should mention the charge blade and kick mechanic for Shinobi. THAT and stealth dashing behind bosses are key as well. All enemies(iirc) take the least damage in their front, more on their sides and the most from behind and this is how bosses with bodies were meant to be one-shotted(namely Hiruko who you can kill in this way/from behind even if he’s floating in mid-air) and how tough enemies like the ogres or those staff-wielding goblin/bird looking dudes were meant to be taken out.
All in all, I love most of your stuff but I’m not really impressed by this video and wish you could’ve spent more time extrapolating on this game or splitting it into parts if it seems like a lot but hey I get it. This game was great to me but for you it’s stand-out but not enough to warrant more time spent than many other titles on your roster and that’s all good. I appreciate the content regardless
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So for some context/info Cvit missed because I'm a bit of a nerd
For the first half of the game, you're trying to get into the Nakatomi HQ to destroy a giant robot called Yagaratsu. But it turns out this was a trap: the old sorcerer Hiruko wanted Hotsuma to do this so Hiruko could steal the machine's massive reservoir of yin to attain his young form.
Also throughout the game, you're constantly being haunted by a white-haired masked ninja called Aomizuchi. This is actually a demon lord using the corpse of Hotsuma's older brother Moritsune, who was killed in a duel for succession to become the next leader of the Oboro. Well...that wasn't the only reason. 1: The duel was actually a front to keep Hotsuma's sword, Akujiki suppressed by feeding it a live human spirit. 2: Akujiki is reawakened when Aomizuchi deliberately grabs the blade so it can drink his tainted blood. This is why you have the Yin gauge after Stage 1.
This game has unlockable rewards from the collectibles but it's all...weird. The collectibles are the Oboro Coins and each stage except the boss ones has them scattered throughout. Thing is though each difficulty has their own set of coins, meaning that in order to get the unlockables, you have to race against the clock faster while diverging from the main route from start to finish because your Yin gauge drops faster and you take more damage. Your rewards aside from art gallery stuff is two additional characters to play as: Moritsune and Joe Musashi. Don't get excited though, because they both have the exact same moveset as Hotsuma.
Moritsune is faster and deals more damage but also takes more damage, too and his Yin gauge drops faster. Joe doesn't have Akujiki so he's not running on a timer yet he still gets the Tate perks. He also has infinite shurikens as a cheeky nod to older Shinobi games having an infinite shuriken option. However, his don't stun enemies, they just do more damage instead.
Being honest, I like Nightshade's gameplay better. You have an expanded moveset, exploration is actually encouraged instead of penalized and you aren't racing against the clock with your life but...more on that when we actually get there.
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I got this game back when Gamestop still had bargain bins for about 5 bucks and fell in love with it. I also totally agree on the final boss fight being an absolute chore, but the rest of the game before was enjoyable. Also, the soundtrack for me is the biggest highlight, as I still find myself humming tunes to this day.
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i love it that now we can have channels like yours to finally review the thousands of PS2 gems that went kinda unnoticed all this time with such high quality production, the PS2 is without a doubt the greatest console to ever grace this earth
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@frustratedsquirrel
1 year ago
To this day, one of the best scarfs in any game of all time.
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