Ganryu 2

Sometimes the jump button randomly stops working

This game is a glorious love letter to classics like Ninja Gaiden and Shinobi — written in beautiful calligraphy, folded into a paper shuriken, and then thrown directly at your face. The gameplay is smooth... until it’s not. Let’s talk about the bug. Somewhere in your journey of slicing and dicing, your character will just randomly forget how to jump. That’s right — no jump, no hop, not even a sad little bunny skip. Just dash to fix it! (Until that stops working too, right when you're staring down a bottomless pit.) Stages 1 to 3? Great fun. Retro challenge, cool bosses, slick action. Stage 4? It’s like the game looked into your soul and said, “You’ve had enough joy.” It’s brutally hard, and not in a satisfying Soulslike way — more like “Why did I pay money to suffer?” Run out of lives? That’s adorable. Back to the start of the stage, ninja. No checkpoint, no mercy. Can you quit and continue later from the same stage? Maybe. Probably not. Good luck finding out without accidentally starting from scratch. Buy this game if: - You love retro ninja games - You eat pain for breakfast - It’s 90% off Otherwise, just go play Shinobi and jump whenever you like.

mixed reviews largely because of git gud, rather than bugs. Sad to see, but inevitable when you are faithfully recreating a punishing genre of game. If you know your stuff, this is that tall sprite, quick stuff. Precise and challenging. Like back in the day when you didn't just burn through a game in an afternoon and moan online about variation and ng+ You just die, play again. Get literally an inch further, die, play some more. And enjoy it. Before long it won't be possible to do games like this, the youngsters won't stand for it and everyone else will be dead ;)

It's a spirital successor of "Shinobi" game series - gameplay is neat, pixel art is good, boss fights are mostly great... but there's ooone small issue - it's buggy, sometimes buggy as hell due to which the player cannot complete the stage on the first try (for example - you will occasionally just lose the ability to jump). And that's a shame because I was planning to beat the game in second time with zero deaths. I cannot understand why game came out in this state because it does everything else well! But despite technical issues - the game is worth to try (you can get it at a very low discounted price (-90%)). Storybird Studio - fix your game, please :)

The minecart level is terrible, combat feels like it has no impact, the levels are kinda OK but I guess it's all just about enemy placement memorization. There's no way to turn off the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ screen shake. Who releases a game like this in 2022? Didn't groove with me. I did like and finish the original Shinobis (arcade and Mega Drive) so it's not like I don't enjoy this type of game.

No começo é tudo de boa, mas ao avançar das fases por algum motivo os comandos não respondem bem, houveram partes que eu comecei a atravessar paredes e cair nos buracos simplesmente não vale a pena, gaste seu dinheiro com outra coisa.

It's good but the difficult gets unfair at the last couple of levels, for this reason I abandoned it before finishing it. Also, I experienced the bug affecting the jump multiple times...

I'm trying to have fun, but I hate the controls. The in-game config greatly limits how you can change them. It can't recognize triggers and it has you assigning buttons to actions instead of actions to buttons. The pause menu also doesn't consistently pause gameplay. It can even still register inputs for gameplay while navigating the menu.