In keeping with the oldsters over at Koei Tecmo, 2025 is the 12 months of the Ninja, and actually, who can argue with them? Each Ninja Gaiden and Shinobi have made and can make comebacks this yr within the type of Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound and Shinobi: Artwork of Vengeance, respectively. Each video games obtained us pondering right here on the Nintendojo workplaces how superior it’s to see this resurgence of 2D ninja action-platformers; it additionally obtained us pondering how intrinsically tied to the historical past of the business ninja video games of this ilk have been. Particularly through the 8 and 16-bit eras when the likes of Ninja Gaiden, Strider, Shinobi, and others have been leaving their mark on the minds and hearts of gamers everywhere in the world.
Celebrating ninja video games is, in impact, to rejoice the historical past of console gaming as an entire. So, in an effort to try this, Nintendojo will probably be trying on the latest slate of ninja recreation choices with a evaluation of Ninja Gaiden: Radebound, adopted by different articles, evaluations, and retrospectives within the coming weeks. Maintain your eyes peeled for the offended Ryu Hayabusa eyes within the masthead above to pop up on these articles to know that it’s a part of our 12 months of the Ninja celebrations. And in the intervening time, why not inform us about your favourite ninja video games down within the feedback and on social media?
