It’s tough being a ninja. Every time you put your feet up and try to relax after crisscrossing the globe in battle, your master betrays you or your girlfriend gets kidnapped or your village gets torched by a rival clan. Before you know it, you’re leaping from rooftops again, sword in hand, dicing up rivals and chucking shurikens at levitating magicians.
As it was for Joe in Sega’s 1987 arcade hit Shinobi, so it is for Jiro, his father, whose arc of the multi-generational plight we follow in Griptonite Games’ 3DS prequel. Both games are conveniently titled Shinobi, and both would like nothing more than to happily accept your money and then kill you. Repeatedly.
Gallery: Shinobi 3DS (Gamescom)
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