Shinobi

[Anonymous No.5414317]

Just beat this cunt after 20 fucking years. Made me its bitch at times. About to jump into Shinobi 3.
General shinobi thread I guess.

[Anonymous No.5414378]

>>5414317
Shinobi arcade is bullshit solely because it arbitrarily locks you out from continuing on the last stage

[Anonymous No.5414386]

Shinobi on the all powerful Master System is far better than it is on the NES.

[Anonymous No.5414389]

>>5414386
Shinobi MS port is JUNK

[Anonymous No.5414403]

>>5414389
It's clearly inferior to the arcade, but it's a great port all around. The NES port is junk. The NES version has worse textures, less colors, and no vertical scrolling.

[Anonymous No.5414404]

>>5414378
Git gud and 1cc it like god intended, not even a hard game

[Anonymous No.5414407]

Don't forget to play the best one. And both Shadow Dancers after that.

[Anonymous No.5414418]

>>5414378
>
Shinobi arcade is bullshit solely because it arbitrarily locks you out from continuing on the last stage

Maybe it is, maybe it's not. But, man, when someone was advancing through those last levels, *e v e r y o n e* on the arcade stopped to see it. Those where the days.

[Anonymous No.5414421]

>>5414378
>Shinobi arcade is bullshit solely because it arbitrarily locks you out from continuing on the last stage

Maybe it is, maybe it's not. But, man, when someone was advancing through those last levels, *e v e r y o n e* on the arcade stopped to see it. Those where the days

[Anonymous No.5414506]

>>5414317
>Just beat this cunt after 20 fucking years
It was the first game I remember beating. Albeit I used infinite shurikens and got Naoko squashed at the end.

[Anonymous No.5414548]

>>5414506
admittedly I used a walkthrough for a few levels and final boss and got the good ending.

[Anonymous No.5414826]

>>5414403
>NES/SMS
>textures
begone zoomer

[Anonymous No.5414913]

>>5414317
Play Shadow Dancer first.

[Anonymous No.5414915]

>>5414389
based

[Anonymous No.5414924]

>>5414913
I actually did after playing shinobi 3. One hit deaths are a bitch but the dog mechanics pretty cool.

[Anonymous No.5415175]

>>5414826
Fuck off, pedant.

[Anonymous No.5415408]

>>5414924
Even without the HP bar, I thought Shadow Dancer was easier than Revenge.

[Anonymous No.5415434]

>>5415408
Its way too easy to 1cc by default, you have to put it to level 3 and limit your lives, then it's closer to Shinobi 1 and Shadow Dancer arcade. Don't know what they were thinking with all the extra lives, so stupid.

[Anonymous No.5415495]

>>5415434
Most Sega games on the Genesis had really modular difficulties, with stuff like life bars or number of lives being adjustable. I really liked that. Wish more games of the era went with it.

[Anonymous No.5415505]

shinobi is a horrid series, every game was crap.
crap graphics, crap gameplay, crap sound, crap everything.
but i guess i just discribed 99% of MD games.

[Anonymous No.5415509]

>>5415495
That comes from arcade boards having the same settings. But that's not the problem, it's that a lot of Genesis (and console games in general) shower you with extra lives so even if you pick the lowest possible setting, you will still get too many extra lives over the course of the game. You can't start without extra lives in Shadow Dancer, but if you could then you could still very easily collect over 16 during the course of the game. The extra lives are avoidable thankfully, but it's just a lack of balance and thoughtless design imo.

[Anonymous No.5415774]

>>5414421
Random, but I notice Joe has orange instead of blue on his costume. Beta version?

[Anonymous No.5416731]

>>5415774

Wow I never noticed that. It must be beta since the jpn version is also blue.

[Anonymous No.5417803]

>>5415505

[Anonymous No.5417904]

>>5415505
this is the bait equivalent of skipping a rock across an above-ground swimming pool

[Anonymous No.5418761]

>>5414317
One of my favorite video game series. Revenge might be my favorite of them all but I love III too. The arcade and GG games are great too, and the PS2 games and 3DS game don't get enough love.

[Anonymous No.5418912]

>>5414378
it has really cheap enemy placement that's trial and error.

[Anonymous No.5418921]

>>5415408
this. revenge is harder mostly from the bottomless pits. hell even on the harder difficulties and sword only, shadow dancer isn't that much harder. levels only add a few more enemies in some places and bosses only get more health. plus the shurikens are basically useless by the end.

[Anonymous No.5418925]

3 is a cakewalk compared to revenge but i still think it's a better game.

[Anonymous No.5418987]

>>5418912
There's hardly anything cheap in the game, and if you don't like trial & error why are you even playing Shinobi? Whole series is about that. You run into a point in a stage where enemies catch you off guard and you die, then you think about how to beat them and clear that part no problem.

[Anonymous No.5420694]

Sega developed both the SMS and NES versions themselves. The latter was published by Tengen and it is a North American exclusive with no Japanese release. What's notable is that the NES version is twice the size of the SMS one, 256k versus 128k.

[Anonymous No.5421296]

>>5414317
did you play the JP version that had Spider-Man and Batman in it?

[Anonymous No.5421317]

How come shinobi 1 wasn't ported to the Genesis? Master system version is decent enough but still not up to the arcade version.

[Anonymous No.5421461]

>>5418925
This, 3 is the best in the series and its still easy to beat even in hardest. 1 is still good but incredibly hard. I still play 3 like every other week.

[Anonymous No.5422178]

>>5421461
You gotta play Shinobi III in 6-button mode to get the fullest effect.

[Anonymous No.5422208]

>>5421296
I believe so. I bought a multi cart off amazon which has 112 games built in. Batman and spidey were present. Have an official multi cart with shinobi on it dont think i ever got that far on it.

[Anonymous No.5422214]

>>5422178
What changes when playing with a six button?

[Anonymous No.5422352]

>>5421317
they were probably too busy porting newer arcade games

[Anonymous No.5422370]

>>5421317
Sega probably either thought "what's the point" or Revenge was in development then. Hasn't stopped one fan from trying, however: https://www.dailymotion.com/Le_Furet/videos

[Anonymous No.5422531]

>>5421461
1 isn't hard, it's just trial & error. The hardest part is the stage 3 boss but there's an exploit you can do to make it easy. Though even without the exploit it took me under 10 hours to get a 1cc of it, not bad at all. 3 feels boring and slow paced in comparison despite letting you run and all those extra moves.

[Anonymous No.5422725]

>>5422214
Default controls
A: Ninjutsu
B: Attack
C: Jump

Six-button mode
A: Guard
B: Melee attack
C: Jump
X: Ninjutsu
Y: Shuriken throw
Z: Shuriken throw

Normally, in order to guard, you have to hold down the attack button, and to use melee attacks, you either have to be very close to an enemy or breakable object, or be totally out of shurikens.

To enable the six-button mode, highlight Options on the title screen, and hold the Mode button down on controller 1. On controller 2, hold Up and C, then press Start on controller 1. The "Options" header changes to "Option," letting you know six-button mode is active.

[Anonymous No.5422798]

FUCK the double jump in Shinobi III. I fucking hate how finicky the timing is.

[Anonymous No.5422802]

>>5422798
You just press jump again at the height of your first jump, right? I didn't think it was too bad, but the timing's not as lenient as Revenge.

[Anonymous No.5422824]

>>5422798
It's consistent. You just have to be at the apex of your first jump.

[Anonymous No.5423985]

>>5422370
>https://www.dailymotion.com/Le_Furet/videos

If that's a mega drive version it looks in good shape. Hope it'll be finished someday.

[Anonymous No.5425982]

i remember when i beat that game i kept getting my ass kicked by the last boss, then when i was on my last life i figured out the strategy to beat him and got the good ending, turned out you could just jump directly upward to dodge the hair throwing move.

[Anonymous No.5426459]

>>5422725
didn't even know you could guard . Funny how some old games treat some control meathods like cheats.
>>5425982
I couldn't get into the rhythm of the boss attack and always took damage. had plenty of lives so I just used the suicide ninjitsu plenty of times