Does anyone else her think that Shinobi is HARD ?

The levels are pretty easy ....but the stage bosses are frigging ridiculous , unless you have a niche for figuring out the EXACT button combo that you have to use in a repititive manner .

I feel the FUSTRATION !

I only rented the game, but i thought it was fairly hard. The game is definitely challenging. I thought the dogs with swords in stage 3-a were an extreme pain in the ass. I played that one a million times before i beat it. Then the next few stages after it were a piece of cake compared to those bastard dogs with swords. grr i hate those dogs.

Yeah, I agree that this game is quite a challenge. That damn moth boss in the fire stage gave me some stress... blow_top
But its just like the original games in that regard, you have to find the weaknesses of the bosses and use a pattern to defeat them. The tate move is the absolute key to beating the bosses, its the universal boss strategy in this game.

Haven't beaten the game yet, but I'm glad I bought it, its given me plenty of hours of fun gameplay.

Shinobi is BACK!!! buttrock

<small>[ January 26, 2003, 09:54 PM: Message edited by: Cnidarian ]</small>

oh wait til you get to the blind guy in the tower, talk about cheap...well kill the little enemies, freeze him, and lucky he won't block if you hit him.

i agree with some of the reviews of this game: you need skills AND luck just to finish it.

i've gotten to the very last boss and just lost interest for now (can't even put a frikkin dent in his life bar).

and 2 bosses i attribute to beating on pure luck (since i never beat them when i replayed some stages):

the giant moth boss in 4B, took half of it's life manually and then luckily managed to TATE the other half and got an A ranking.

the 6 armed statue in 6B, got an S ranking. i got lucky that the floating heads were bunched close together with the last one being close to the big boss.


one fo the most important things to learn in this game is the air combo (i din't start trying to learn it till i got to level 7) and it makes all the other stages easy if you learn it right away.

Yup, the air-combo is the key in most bosses... Just wait til the mini-monsters appear, kill them quickly, and when your sword is flashing pink go for the boss, never before that...

I'm on stage 8-B, I absolutely hate dying because of a bad jump and having to restart all over again....

I agree the sword-dogs are incredible difficult, but when I was playing that stage I still hadn't learned to use the anti-blocking kick (the problem of the dogs is that they are always blocking...) and hadn't understand how to charge the sword by quickly killing enemies (although I always tried to kill them quickly just to watch the tate, so I was using it anyway...).

This game just buttrock !

I hate those damn sword dogs... Instead of guard break kicking, try this:

Do you know how to lock on to enemies? I think its the R2 button. Anyway, I do this all the time to enemies on foot: lock on with R2, get the enemy in front of your sights, get in close proximity, then push the stick left or right and hit the stealth dash button at the same time. (Left/Right+dash)

You'll get right behind the enemy, and slashing them in the back does more damage than in the front. Its the best way to deal with the ground creatures.

Its a challenging game.I like the challenge.It gives me satisfaction the moment i overcome the challenge.
Reminds me of Devil May cry's "dante must die" mode.Its frustratingly hard but rewarding when you beat it.

I love this game! While it is difficult you don't feel as if you'll never make it...(at least I don't). It' always a good feeling to go through a really tough stage and find out that you found all the oboro tokens, because that means you'll never have to go through that stage again if you want.

So far only 19 coins...