![]() ![]() ![]() There’s no counter system to be had, so you must time your blocks carefully or be knocked on your steel fanny. You can, any time at all, block incoming attacks with a single button press. Like any well designed game, you’re given time to learn and the tutorial is in practice and experimentation.īlocking, grappling and the steadily charging Blaster gauge vary things up out of sheer necessity. ![]() You crash through the window at Headquarters and are confronted by one-hit tumble soldiers. Perhaps a more accurate word for it would be ‘deliberate’. ![]() When you start, you’ll notice several things right away: TNW is colourful, the music is pumpin’, and the combat is. The third is the slowest, but can knock down or carry large opponents with ease, even bosses. The second is swift and flexible with aerial strikes, but slow reaction speed. The first favors speed and agility, but lacks in penetrating or grabbing ability. Which one will you choose? Kamaitachi is a weasel looking humanoid with massive scythes hanging from each arm Kunoichi is a svelte blond haired warrior wielding both katana and kunai and finally, Ninja, a hulking masked behemoth wielding steel nunchakus. Unfortunately for the rebels, the plan is discovered and the robots must be activated at the last moment. He must be evil incarnate because he’s got no hair, pointed ears and red eyes. You play one of three Ninja Warrior robots, each programmed to assassinate this nasty fellow with an even nastier name: “Banglar”.īungler? Bang-lar? No, no, better leave that one alone. Watch the Terminator inspired introduction text scroll the foreboding story of a tyrannical overlord and the rebel forces that would depose him. The Ninja Warriors, henceforth ‘TNW’, is a side scrolling single plane 2D fighter. For some reason, even though the soundtrack is beloved, apparently Taito didn’t believe anyone would remember it in the West. Let’s get this out of the way it exists in a strange place where the Japanese release was entitled “Ninja Warriors, Again” as a reference to the 1984 arcade The Ninja Warriors. There are many arcade style fighters on the Super Nintendo, and The Ninja Warriors has a reputation to live up to. "Upgrades? Are you serious? My friend, you are the upgrade system." ![]()
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