All these Don't recommend reviews - They don't know what the heck they want. This game is amazing and it plays like a dream on the deck. Please support this game. We need more arcade fun like this and illDamage I like switches and infinite dash.

After playing for several hours, I can confidently say that Sega is back. I’ve completed The Revenge of Shinobi and Shinobi 3 on the Sega Mega Drive, as well as GG Shinobi 1 and 2 on the Sega Game Gear. This new version of Shinobi incorporates elements from all its predecessors. It features action, skill-based gameplay, and puzzles, much like the Game Gear version where you had to revisit levels after acquiring new skills to uncover hidden treasures. Thanks to Yuzo Koshiro, the music turned out quite well, though not quite as good as in the originals. Does anyone remember the Chinatown music from The Revenge of Shinobi? Unfortunately, I couldn’t find anything quite like it here. Still, it’s a fantastic game, and I hope it’s successful enough to encourage Sega to release more remakes. Imagine seeing classics like Nights into Dreams, Last Bronx, or Golden Axe get the same treatment. Let’s hope we get to experience those gems as well!

Great game so far. Massive combat depth, incredibly responsive controls, Yuzo Koshiro bangers, and stellar 2D art and animation. I grew up on the Genesis Shinobi games, and this is exactly what I want from a 2025 sequel. It retains the spirit of the original while making the moment to moment enemy encounters engaging. Oh, and importantly, unlike many 2D games (Shredder's Revenge, etc.), you can run it at an uncapped framerate. Moving around and slashing feels buttery smooth. Big props to the devs for that.

Shinobi: Art of Vengeance (SAV) is a great game. There’s some definite flaws but they’re relatively easy to overlook. The two biggest features are the visuals and the gameplay. [h2]Art of Style[/h2] SAV follows Lizardcube games' trend of using "hand-drawn-look" artwork for its visual style (look at that store page!). [b]To say it’s beautiful is an understatement.[/b] Excellent use of color, character animations are fluid and dynamic, backgrounds are interesting and varied, effects pop and add to their weight/feel onscreen. Visual queues are clear and concise, and it’s *usually* pretty easy to identify everything on the screen. SAV punches well above its weight in this area. This is some of the best 2D animation I’ve seen in a video game and even surpasses Lizardcube’s last big title Streets of Rage 4 in this department. Hand-drawn-looking-artwork is expensive and time consuming to make (at least it was - looking at you AI), and the quality on display here is r...

This game doesn't start unless you are connected to the internet. Great game but i wanted to play it on the go where i have no connection but i can't.

Shinobi is a game that seems absolutely terrified of ever challenging the player. Despite a considerable move list, every single enemy can be dispatched with the exact same XXYY to juggle combo. Enemies will often spawn with armor, but the game gives you an ability that charges quite quickly and breaks right through their armor. The enemies themselves are extremely simplistic, generally only having one attack, and rarely spawn in groups that complement each other. Even in the last third of the game, the game will still be spawning "elite" groups of enemies that are exactly the same as you've been fighting since the first missions. An electric brute, maybe two gunner enemies. Two flying guys, a drone. The combat never seems to evolve with the player in any meaningful way. If you've played the demo, you've seen everything the game has. The player's new abilities like the grapple aren't incorporated into combat, and the game not only stops introducing new enemy types halfway thro...

I'm speechless man... From the art style, stages, to the combat. This game is simply beautiful

Great job SEGA, you made my childhood inner soul awaken again... such great game & nostalgia.

Initial Thoughts after 2.3 Hours of play through three main stages and one bonus stage: They cooked. They really cooked. To keep it short for now, everything in this game is firing on all cylinders! The gameplay/combat is fast-paced and smooth, the level design is expansive while still tight-knit, Yuzo and Tee's music is banger after banger and the art is simply tasty. So far, rock SOLID!

this game is perfect the combats ,graphic, design all of them. i like it