Ninja Five-O Switch Review - The Game Slush Pile

Ninja Five-O was a sport boy superior sport from 2003 that was re-released by Konami. It didn’t promote very nicely in 2003, so why do it? It’s superior! Sure, the sport was, and nonetheless is a good motion platformer that may be powerful as nails, but extraordinarily enjoyable to play. You play a ninja cop(additionally the tile of the Japanese Model which has been launched with the NA model on this bundle) who grapples and slides by way of ranges killing dangerous guys and rescuing hostages. There are six missions in complete, solely the primary three can be found in simple mode. In every mission, you will have three phases after which a boss stage. The bosses are bizarre, like a dude who transforms into a hearth dragon and a brief dude using a large frog.

Ninja 5-O is straightforward to regulate. B is soar, A is melee, y is ranged. Down and B is slide. Up and B unfurls a grappling hook you could swig with. ZL is a really helpful rewind button(new to this model), which you’ll see within the forthcoming video. It actually doesn’t make issues any simpler. Rewind simply lets you appropriate errors that will imply sport over, corresponding to capturing a hostage. There are orange lightning bolts that improve your stage, making your vary highly effective, as much as stage 3. One hit and its again to stage one. The blue meter is activated with B+Y. If it isn’t full, you get momentary invulnerability. If full, you possibly can kill all of the enemies of display screen(or do huge harm to a boss). And now the Ninja 5-O video:

Essential disclaimer: I owned at one time the GBA Ninja 5-O… truly I nonetheless do!

I’m exhibiting the cartridge as proof I keep in mind the GBA sport. Ninja 5-O was nice then, and is nice now. Nevertheless, this is not going to a get a Should Play. Whereas it’s enjoyable and difficult, some features of stage design and the problem itself really feel dated, like I used to be enjoying an NES sport. The rewind button helps, however typically issues really feel unfair and/or unpolished. That’s positively what the unique builders have been going for, however it could flip some off. Nonetheless, Ninja-5-O will get a Really helpful with an eight back-end rating. You can not go improper right here, and if you happen to’re searching for an old-school motion platformer, you’ll discover no higher instance.

Total: Ninja 5-O is a wonderful old-school motion platformer that was nice on the GBA, and is generally nonetheless nice now.

Verdict: Really helpful

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