Shinobi X

[Thenewguy]

Was it made by the same team behind Shinobi III? I mean from that spectacular holodeck-esque bodd encounter in SIII to this b-movie crap, what were Sega thinking?

Its not made by Sega, it was outsourced to Tose, a company who make games for other people quick and cheap, they had a reputation of keeping their involvement quiet and not taking credit for their work.

Here's another of their games which has similar graphics

[Assman]

I finally got a chance to play this game, and holy shit is it a bummer. The gameplay is actually pretty good, and is more or less in-tune with what a natural evolution of Shinobi III should be, but aesthetically, it's just atrocious. I don't know what the hell the train of thought behind this thing was, but they took the groundwork for a good game and pissed all over it. How can a game on a 16-bit platform with a limited palette look so much better?

Oh yeah, and Joe Musashi, the ultimate ninja badass of all ninja badasses, looks like a fucking pussy in this game. Not cool. I really wanted to like this, but the cheese and poor design choices are too overwhelming.

[sheath]

Yes, the gameplay in Shinobi X, the UK version of Shinobi Legions or Shin Shinobi Den, has a very good expansion on Shinobi III's gameplay. I find the Richard Jaques soundtrack of the UK version makes the game much more enjoyable, even though I find the live actors as awkward as ever. I think this game would be a perfect Saturn Shinobi game with a few more levels and hand drawn art instead of live actors.

The levels feel very reminiscent of Revenge of Shinobi though, and sometimes Ninja Spirit too. That is a very very good thing.

[profholt82]

Oh yeah, and Joe Musashi, the ultimate ninja badass of all ninja badasses, looks like a fucking pussy in this game. Not cool. I really wanted to like this, but the cheese and poor design choices are too overwhelming.

Joe Musashi is not in this game. The character you control is a young ninja named Sho.

[Da_Shocker]

I finally got a chance to play this game, and holy shit is it a bummer. The gameplay is actually pretty good, and is more or less in-tune with what a natural evolution of Shinobi III should be, but aesthetically, it's just atrocious. I don't know what the hell the train of thought behind this thing was, but they took the groundwork for a good game and pissed all over it. How can a game on a 16-bit platform with a limited palette look so much better?

Oh yeah, and Joe Musashi, the ultimate ninja badass of all ninja badasses, looks like a fucking pussy in this game. Not cool. I really wanted to like this, but the cheese and poor design choices are too overwhelming.

Pretty much as I said before replace these shitty graphics with Taromaru and you have one of the best sides scrollers of all time.

[Assman]

Joe Musashi is not in this game. The character you control is a young ninja named Sho.

I figured that was just an engrish spin on "Joe" since the garb is similar to Shinobi III. Oh well, either way, whoever it is, he looks like a pussy.

Pretty much as I said before replace these shitty graphics with Taromaru and you have one of the best sides scrollers of all time.

I don't know about one of the best of all time, but no question it would be way the hell better. That game does have nice graphics; definitely much more fitting for a Shinobi game.

[Kamahl]

Pretty much as I said before replace these shitty graphics with Taromaru and you have one of the best sides scrollers of all time.

Yup.

[iron pirate]

Sorry for the necropost, but I've recently gotten into Shinobi Legions lately and have made it all the way to Level 9. Unfortunately, I don't have a manual and haven't been able to figure out Shinobi's comprehensive moveset. I would specifically like to know how to execute a ninja roll that I sometimes pull off by accident. Thanks in advance to all you pro-players.

Expect you've found out how to execute the roll by now, but if not - just do a quarter roll on the d pad from up, through to the direction you want to roll in. E.g. hit up>up/right>right and you should roll to the right.

I've recently bought Shinobi X and after being initially underwhelmed am totally into it now. IMO the graphics are variable between a bit crappy and pretty good - sometimes at the same time, e.g. level 3 boss fight where the background looks great but the boss sprite is awful. Main pluses for me are the great Richard Jaques soundtrack which has been stuck in my head for days, and the expanded move set which adds a lot to the gameplay. Nearly hurled my joypad through the screen last night though after falling off the mine carts for the 100th time!!

[Sean697]

I'm sorry but this game just doesn't have the feel of the other Shinobi games. And it's not that interesting. Plus I've never gotten past the damn mine levels. Ad the levels are unispiring. Sega didn't even bother to release this here and let Vic Tokai bring it out. It's not horrible. But it's very poor for a Shinobi game. After the fast paced action and dynamic bosses of 3 and the spot on controls this game fails pretty bad.