Team Shinobi's final game as Team Shinobi is another iteration on the side-scrolling "beating them up" formula using all the lessons learned from the prior games. It has Golden Axe/Kunio-Kun style free movement, Shinobi's short/medium range attack patterns and FPS minigames, and from Altered Beast they wisely didn't take anything.
The character and enemy designs evoke the 80s special effects films—the designs and setting made me particularly think about 80s homages to 50s films, like Tobe Hooper's Invaders From Mars and Chuck Russell's The Blob. The characters all play differently enough, and the game can be somewhat difficult. It can look ugly, and it can feel awkward and frustrating, but this game has an air and style to it that just makes me want to return to it more than any of their other games. I can easily see myself plucking away at this again during the Halloween season.
The character and enemy designs evoke the 80s special effects films—the designs and setting made me particularly think about 80s homages to 50s films, like Tobe Hooper's Invaders From Mars and Chuck Russell's The Blob. The characters all play differently enough, and the game can be somewhat difficult. It can look ugly, and it can feel awkward and frustrating, but this game has an air and style to it that just makes me want to return to it more than any of their other games. I can easily see myself plucking away at this again during the Halloween season.