#Shinobi PS2

[playstationgamemania]

[vigoordesigns]

The character art was done by Makoto Tsuchibayashi. Given a transparent background by me.

Hotsuma & Moritsune from 2002's Shinobi. Hibana from it's follow up, Nightshade or Kunoichi.

[moonstonecanyon]

Strider Squiryu....

[ocajno]

hiryu and hotsuma weapon swap

[scaredybot]

I have been (and still am) sick.

I hope to get better soon.

here's a drawing of Hotsuma and chao for the time being.

[slutpoppers]

Neji Hyūga - 8 Trigrams Palm Rotation!!!

[devileaterjaek]

[nintendowife]

Unbelievable! I beat Nightshade (aka Kunoichi) after 20 years! Nightshade is a PlayStation 2 game by Sega from 2003, a spinoff of the Shinobi series. I had retired the game back in the day after being stuck in Stage 11 with no idea where to jump without falling to my death. Now with the aid of today's video guides I was able to figure out the route through the level.

I dusted off my PlayStation 2 to see if it still works and picked Nightshade as my way to test drive the console. My old save file on a PS2 memory card still functioned so I made the hardcore decision of getting straight into action from the aforementioned stage. Well, first I played a short combat tutorial to get a reminder about controls.

Stage 11 was incredibly difficult for me. The level consists almost exclusively of platforming, wall running and aerial combat over bottomless pits. I'm notoriously bad at platforming and the erratic camera angles surely didn't help my cause. I was almost ready to admit defeat after 96 retries but decided to continue from this checkpoint after cooling off my head and sweaty hands with a brisk walk outside in -10 C temperature.

With my stubbornness and Finnish sisu I finally made it through. The game tracks retries only up to 99 but my estimate is 150 deaths. During one level. And on Easy difficulty. To give you a clue about Nightshade's challenge level / level design, let me quote IGN's review on the game: "If you thrive on super unforgiving titles that'll make you rip live hamsters in half with your bare teeth out of agonizing frustration -- and you simply have to have every ninja game on the planet, well then, by all means, be my guest."

I was excited to finally be able to advance to Stage 12. Only to find out there's more platforming… Luckily Stage 12 wasn't as bad and rage-inducing as Stage 11 and I cleared it relatively quickly. It was already late at night so I decided to leave Stage 13 for the next day.

So today, on Sunday morning after eating breakfast, I continued from Stage 13 which was the final boss fight. I was pitted against a ninja cyborg called Kurohagane. A boss battle arena with no platforming is more my forte so I was almost sure I could pull it through and finally finish the game after all these years. After 16 retries I emerged victorious. His last words were "Urk…". Eat dirt, Kurohagane!

Ahh, it was such a satisfying feeling to watch the ending cutscene and credits after my struggles.

[chatdy]

Kage,,,

[badschmitt24071994]

Shinobi 2002 PS2

[codec-morse]

tsuchibayashi makoto - Shinobi (PS2)

[playstationgamemania]

[lodgeofthecat]

I'm streaming Shinobi!!!

Also known as Cool Scarf Simulator. https://www.twitch.tv/schoolofthecat

[numberxxisora]

Last week, we went to find the evil summoning demons around the city. What we come across is a true hell-icopter.

[ocajno]

hiryu gives his scarf to valkyrie + hiryu and hotsuma scarf swap

the first image is a reference to valkyrie's pre-battle dialogue with hiryu and hotsuma:

valkyrie: hiryu, hotsuma... your scarves are quite fetching.

hiryu: ... you can have mine if you want it, valkyrie.

hotsuma: not mine. this is practically part of my body.

[scaredybot]

wanted to share this.

are you even playing shinobi if you don’t do this at least once?