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The Golden Age of Ninjas

Modojo's resident ninja Philip Jones laments the death of his species and reminisces about the glory days...

...Continued From Page 5 Shinobido Homura: Soul of the Ninja - Spike

The final piece of ninja action is brought to us by the developers Acquire, who just happen to be the original PSone Tenchu team. So as you would expect, Shinobido Homura: Soul of the Ninja is effectively a reworking of the Tenchu game style but with new characters and plots. Launched last year in Japan, the game hasn't yet been given a US release date. The website of Acquire puts it down to "circumstances beyond their control," which could mean anything! The game will however receive a translation and release in Europe this September. So if you want some sneaky killing action it won't be hard at all to import a copy, what with PSP games being region-free.

Is the game any good? Debate rages within the ninja loving fraternity as to whether or not it's better than the PSP Tenchu offering. Opinion among the ninja fans is that it's certainly a fresher feeling title, but it's over all too quickly. Well, even a ninja can't win 'em all I guess. Being fans of the ninja here, when the game receives its translation and release, we'll take a proper look at it.

While 1987-94 might well have been the golden age of ninjas, and while it's pleasing to have seen a resurgence in prominence for our ninja friends over the last few years, these modern 3D ninja romps just don't quite feel the same. The old games were more fantastical, more action packed, less hiding in the shadows, and more eviscerating masked opponents! What we need is to see a return of 2D ninja action to our hands! Only problem there is that 2D games aren't what the public wants these days. They're too busy running around popping caps in each others asses or trying to level up their own brains. We ninja fans will just have to lie in wait in the shadows, sharpening our shuriken until the day we get our revenge on the 3D usurpers!