Ninja Clowns is a typical beat-em-up developed by Strata, the same company that developed Time Killers and shorta Sequel Bloodstorm. The basis of the games came from BloodStorm and Time Killer. Game PlayEdit Players control two clowns who fight against a variety of enemy circus performers. Use martial arts techniques as well as spring-launched boxing gloves, bottles of seltzer and cream pies to defeat your foes and the main boss of the game the evil clown boss Twisto. There are bonus stage in witch the player is placed in a laboratory full of colored flasks and you have to broke them all before the time is up.
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First of all, don't get too excited by the title - it's just a cynical attempt to cash in on '90s fads. Not a whole lot of ninjutsu going on here, is what I'm saying. Just a dumb clown punching and kicking stuff like normal. This seems to be one of the earliest US-made brawlers, so the art feels different from its contemporaries - kind of an EARTHWORM JIM or Ren & Stimpy type vibe. It does have at least a little personality (which is more than you can say for many) but the animation is so herky jerky that the look suffers nonetheless. And the sparse frames means it plays like crap, too, of course. If it were smoother, the passable mechanics might have felt okay, but as is it just feels pretty bad to play. At least it's short.
Notable for featuring one of the most confusing map screens of all time which is not helped by the fact that the game lazily repeats its levels over and over. There are three stages called "Streets" ffs.
Notable for featuring one of the most confusing map screens of all time which is not helped by the fact that the game lazily repeats its levels over and over. There are three stages called "Streets" ffs.
Title screen goes hard, great goofy ahh game