Ninja Five-O Switch Review - The Game Slush Pile

Ninja 5-O was a recreation boy superior recreation from 2003 that was re-released by Konami. It didn’t promote very effectively in 2003, so why do it? It’s superior! Sure, the sport was, and nonetheless is a superb motion platformer that may be robust 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 unhealthy guys and rescuing hostages. There are six missions in complete, solely the primary three can be found in straightforward mode. In every mission, you might 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 driving an enormous frog.

Ninja 5-O is straightforward to regulate. B is bounce, A is melee, y is ranged. Down and B is slide. Up and B unfurls a grappling hook which 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 permits you to appropriate errors that might imply recreation over, corresponding to capturing a hostage. There are orange lightning bolts that improve your degree, making your vary highly effective, as much as degree 3. One hit and its again to degree one. The blue meter is activated with B+Y. If it isn’t full, you get non permanent invulnerability. If full, you may kill all of the enemies of display(or do large injury to a boss). And now the Ninja 5-O video:

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

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

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

Verdict: Beneficial

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