Kurenai's main weapon is the tetsugen, or blade-on-a-string for those who like hyphenated explanations, and though stylish, the tetsugen also cheapens the gameplay somewhat. It is the unfulfilling execution of this style, though, that is Red Ninja's biggest downfall. The setting definitely feels like a ninja game should, a sort of slightly mystical realism set in ancient Japan. Kurenai as a character is fairly believable and, let's face it, how many ninjas wear blood-red kimonos? While other ninja titles have had female characters, few have actually seemed feminine, and it is that sort of gentle innocence that contrasts against Kurenai's new line of work.

Red Ninja's style, however, is an excellent break from the genre. When the storyline does make sense, it is usually due to its predictability and unabashed use of clichés. It almost seems that the plotline involves about a half-game or graphic novel's worth of missing storyline as Kurenai is training to even make sense of things. Out of the blue, new characters will be thrown into the mix for no apparent reason other than to simply add a new character into the mix, made even more confusing by how the characters interact as if they have known each other for years prior. Barely alive, Kurenai is rescued by a local clanswoman who, for no discernable reason, teaches Kurenai the ways of the ninja so that she may get back at her father's killers and retrieve the plans.įrom that exact point, Red Ninja's plotline has a coherency similar to that of the babblings of a geriatric meth addict. Of course, inhumane weapons that the civilized world shuns is just the sort of thing that evil forces want, so before the opening cut scene ends, Kurenai ends up watching her father get beheaded, the plans stolen, her home burned, and then herself getting strung up in a tree miles away with a blade stuck in her body. Kurenai's father has just completed construction on a fearsome weapon (a sort of machine gun) that the civilized military leaders find inhumane. Pledging her undying loyalty to her new family, Kurenai now lives to avenge her father's death and will go to any means necessary to destroy the Black Lizard Clan.In Red Ninja you play as Kurenai, the young daughter of a brilliant engineer. Miraculously, she survives and is rescued and adopted into a clan where she obtains complete mastery of her unique weapon, the wire. A young girl's world is destroyed when she and her father are attacked by the deadly Black Lizard Clan, who after witnessing her father's death, is captured and brutally hung by a wire and left to die. They are called NINJA, the assassin in the darkness…ĭue to this war the power of the samurai class is fading and the use of the Ninja has become necessary to hold any political power in this chaotic time. Both powers were scheming to defeat its enemy by any means, and there were people playing important roles actively behind the scenes. The Takeda and Oda clans, the two biggest clans of that era, were fighting each other furiously.

In the 16th Century, Japan was experiencing an age of provincial wars among rival warlords. Red Ninja: End of Honor™ brings action adventure games to the next level with groundbreaking gameplay, and a brand new character to bring it all to life!

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