The ninja related seasons - so Power Rangers Ninja Storm (pictured above) and the Sentai equivalent Ninpou Sentai Hurricanger.
I GUESS they wore ninja outfits in MMPR… but I still don’t count it.
now that you mention them, weren’t the original GATCHAMaN crew ninjas? i coulda sworn they were.
i dont think they were really ninjas…it was in their name but if i remember correctly the name was just a bunch of random shit thrown together. but they def moved and acted like ninjas.
YEAH!
we got a thread on it
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if you’ve never played this stage, you have no idea of the incredible difficulty of this runthrough.
this is what ninja games are supposed to be about.
pure skill.
nothing more.
nothing less.
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gameplay on this level is an artform.
Yeah, playing Nightshade well is no fucking joke.
Hotsuma is the most badass ninja because of that damn stealth dash and sexy ass scarf.
I got this nurse.
Anyone remember Ninja masters?
No offense, but using Hotsuma in Nightshade/Kunoichi makes the game a cakewalk. S Ranks are very achievable. The game was already loads easier than Shinobi and then they allow you to use the king. He’s too overpowered in it and broke that game easily because it wasn’t designed for charged Akujiki. I’d be more impressed if the player used Hibana or Hisui, or if these vids were of Shinobi S ranks, but entertaining runs nontheless.
i wouldn’t say its a cakewalk at all. at all.
wut?
you must be trolling.
if you screw up trying to do the one hite tate on the stage 10 boss hisui,with hotsuma of course, you’ll have to start everything over to get that elusive S RANK.
and you can only one hit tate her in the very first attempt. i don’t think you can one hit tate her after that since the red bar gets completely depleted before she recalls her minions back onto the field again. if you kill the minions to gain charge bar and wait for the next time she recalls her minions to charge attack her…the bar will be too empty.
correct me if i’m wrong, but every time i try to one hit her after that first attempt i always fail. the yang bar depletes completely each time after that first attempt.
if you look at the vid, you’ll see hotsuma’s red bar deplete quickly as it always does. its almost completely full at the start of the boss fight(WHICH IS EXACTLY HOW YOU NEED IT TO BE)
5 minions are out on the field, he kills two and avoids the other 3 purposefully. the 2 minions yang goes into him as he attacks the other 3 so he gets just enough meter to charge his final boss hit. but if you fuck up that first attempt…you’ll have to kill all minions next time to completely refill the charge meter, and avoid hitting the boss…since you don’t have meter to charge since minions have to fall dead first…and even then it just doesn’t work since by the time she recalls more minions, you meter is completely gone.(and i don’t recall that it completely refills from killing minions) and even if you pull it off, the one hit boss kill by charging attack after a failed first group of minions attempt…which may or may not be impossible, the game penalizes you for taking to long to beat the boss/stage and deducts points anyway.
have you even played this game? or this particular stage? the game is easier than shinobi from stage 1-5, but from 6-8 it gets hard. and stages 9-12 just get ridiculously hard. mostly the platforming.
here’s a vid showing of a speed run but not S rank.
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fastest speedrun of this stage i’ve ever seen. at 2:15 mark the game’s commentator shows a slow mo replay of how the player nailed a mirror which he needed to hit with his kunai when the mirror was off screen!
the way he just gets through the final “hive” areas of the stage…just mind blowing.
i remember i died like well over 80 times trying to get through this the first time i tackled this stage. he makes this look so easy, but its so not.
Hotsuma makes the GAME in general a cakewalk, not the S Rank. I said S Rank was very achievable with him. The fact that he even brings 1-hit tate to this game…lol. The hardest parts about Nightshade were the pit deaths. Once you got a good feel for navigating each stage, there’s really shit stopping you from nailing at least A Rank besides bosses. Not taking anything from the players but…meh.
Yes, I owned the game. Got it for my birthday. Finished it in about 5-6 hours on normal. This was in between celebration and stuff, even going out for dinner, coming home and unpausing game. I couldn’t believe I beat it that fast and even my mom asked me, “Is that it?” and recognized that the final boss looked like Hotsuma. Because I had been playing Shinobi all week in anticipation of this game. Days later I beat it on hard difficulty barely noticing a difficulty spike and never really played anymore after that.
I’m not doubting you, but before if anyone told me that they spent 80 times trying to do anything in that game, especially coming from Shinobi, I would’ve told them to stfu asap. I got both games back a few years ago and played them a bit. I could still hang in Nightshade so long as I avoided pits and just used conviently placed enemies to propel myself through stages but I still got owned by bosses. Meanwhile Shinobi raped the fuck out of me throughout entire levels because my reactions sucked. That’s the major difference.
Idk, I thought this was unanimous. This is the first time in my life that I ever heard Nightshade was more difficult than Shinobi.
P.S. Last vid was pretty nice. But ugh I hated that level so much. Just ugly. Shinobi speedruns of Laboratory, etc, now that’s beautiful.
ah i see. yeah i was talking about S-ranking in general. but the platforming in nightshade is what kills, nevr the enemies. in shinobi its the other way around. except for the ex stage. thats hellish platforming.
i never found shinobi to be tougher than nightshade though. except for stage 8-b.
everything else seems easy nowadays. unlike most players of shinobi i never got stuck on stage 3-A…i got stuck on 4-A. then on 7-A’s waterfall part. didn’t realize i needed to position the camera at a certain angle to make those jumps past the waterfalls. then 8-B…like everyone else.
but i find the later stages of nightshade much harder than the later stages of shinobi. and S-ranking in nightshade is ridiculously hard because factors like clear time, destruction, and your health meter determine S-rank too. not just collecting the 3 scrolls, clear the stage, one hit kill the boss=S rank like in shinobi.
Shadow of the Ninja NES
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Not enough Gaiden love in this thread, even if it’s damn shame what the Team Ninja Leftovers did with 3.
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Mini Ninjas-one of the finest little ninja games around actually…
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i’m gonna show you the real ninja gaiden, the arcade version i played as a kid at a bodega that had this cab around my grade school. i played this after school and it was 10x better than the arcade version of the original shinobi. and 1000x better than the later nes version of NG
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there’s also Shinobido Imashime, plays like Tenchu. i have this. great game.
the enemies/guards are much brighter than the retarded guards in tenchu. they ring the town bells and alert everyone when they see you, and they search much harder for you than in tenchu, who turn their backs and forget about you too quickly in tenchu. they also sometimes change their guard watch locations.
the only thing wrong with this game is that you have no ninja magic like in tenchu and every other ninja game. but you can make items with powers like health/strength, sleep, immobility, and confusion. there are a few ninja scrolls giving you certain abilities like invisibility…but its sorta lame since the ninja isn’t seen by guards but doesn’t go all predator stealth(clear like glass) like in tenchu
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this is shinobido too, but here the player is using a ninja chick guard’s skin. you can play the missions as almost any character found in the game by carrying their body out of the stage area.
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