Ninja Five-O

Man, it pains me to put a negative review for this game. So the developers remastered this game's banger soundtrack for this port, which I would like to believe was to compensate for the GBA's audio hardware limitations. The problem is that they did a really. really bad job at it, and they broke the game along the way. First, the treble is now so loud that it completely drowns out the rest of the music, and the softer instrumentation for the main melody aggravates the problem. All you can hear is a rapid and irritating "CHIKA-CHIKA-CHIKA-CHIKA-CHIKA-CHIKA-CHIKA-CHIKA" almost all the time while playing. It doesn't matter if you set High Quality Sound to On or Off, you're stuck with it, with Off being the least worst offender. What baffles me is that you can literally listen to both the original and remastered soundtrack in the game's menu. Why isn't there an option to actually use said original music in-game as well? But somehow that's not even the worst part with this remastered soundtrack. The worst part is that sometimes it just... stops. No reason. It just stops. All you have left of the audio are the sound effects. I'm pretty sure that's not an issue in the original game. You can find reports and video evidence about this specific problem in this thread: https://steamcommunity.com/app/2728200/discussions/0/594016333228706906/ By the way, this port is a whopping 1.3 GB! What's taking the bulk of that precious space? That's right - the music! More than 945 MB of it in fact! Meanwhile, the entire original game fits in just 4 MB. Yeah that new remix on the title screen is pretty cool, but did it really needed to be stored in an uncompressed WAV file of all things? Yes storage space nowadays is relatively cheap, but it's not infinite either! What about extracting the bundled ROMs from this port and playing them in a separate emulator as a workaround for all of this mess? Well it's possible and it does solve the music problems, but the file in which the ROMs are stored is password-protected. I ended up dumping them from RAM while the game was running to retrieve them, so good luck if you're not a hacker. (It's worth noting that the ROMs don't match the original GBA releases, although the only apparent difference is that a few Nintendo references have been scrubbed. Similar edits were done for the included manual as well.) Because of this, I can't really recommend this port in good conscience until these issues are fixed except for the most diehard of gamers.

I've completed the first two levels, the bank and the harbor so far. While the game seems like a basic straightforward port of the GBA game, it does play really good still. Basically you are a "cop" ninja. You go around levels killing enemies and saving hostages from the bad guys. You can kill the hostages though so be careful! Some of the levels require you to save all hostages before you can finish the level. If you accidentally kill one, just go back into that room to redo the room. Otherwise once you kill an enemy, they stay dead. You can pick up items such as hearts that heal you, points pickups and also power up pickups. You start at level one and a power up pickups will get you to level 2, where you do more damage and have better shurikens. I only got to level 3 power because once you get hit, you drop a level in power (there are only 3 levels of power). So this makes it so you want to be careful and thoughtful. Nice touch. The game not only includes Ninja Five O but also Ninja Cop and a music player and a museum. Like I said, kinda barebones port but it's a really good game and now you dont need to spend $800 to play it!! I'm definitely going to finish it and I can see this being a game where you want to chase the high score if you are into that! Recommended but probably on sale. Edit: completed it, there is actually a rewind which I figured there was but didn't know how to do it at first. Also Ninja Cop is just the European version of this game FYI. It is actually super fun and the more you play it, the better you get, which makes the game even more fun!

A now-incredibly-expensive GBA cult classic returns and you don't have to shell out hundreds of dollars for it anymore. Shinobi with a dash of Bionic Commando. Great fun!.

Finally, my favorite GBA game comes to steam, and i dont have to pay thousands for a copy

Finally a hidden gem is given the attention it deserves. It's not revolutionary in the slightest, and there are quite a few shortcomings (it would be nice if there were more musical variation, for example), but this is a very solid and underappreciated action platformer in the Shinobi/Shadow Dancer mould. The grappling hook mechanic is very finely tuned and requires mastery if you're going to get anywhere in the Hard or Time Trial modes. The price is a bit steep, but it's a bargain compared to trying to source an original copy on the second-hand market. Well worth it for retro action fans.

It's good.

童年GBA上最喜欢的游戏之一，相当丝滑的钩锁操作在同时期里堪称顶尖。 但关于这个冷饭，评价是毫无性价比只有情怀。 把游戏整体原封不动搬过来，只加了几个cg图，清晰度和穿插在片头的游戏画面极为割裂。 主打的“重置bgm”也很难评，还不如原版，而且玩到后面还会有突然没bgm的bug。 机场关的解救人质任务成就也有bug，中等难度和困难难度都没法跳成就，还是跑去简单模式打了遍才跳的 困难难度的最后60s图未免有点太极限了，在有回溯的情况下都打的手忙脚乱，当初真的会有人类能打通吗? 总的来说，纯纯粉丝向怀旧游戏，不推荐任何非粉玩家在90% off前入手，6/10 [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/40230650] 更多独立游戏测评，请关注月下茶寨鉴赏家 [/url]