The story..the world is in danger from some dictator..and the only ones able to do something about it are a couple of NINJAS. (well i like ninjas who doesn´t
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You can choose wich ninja at the start although i have yet to see any diffrence other than guy ninja or girl ninja.
Anyway it´s time to go out to stop the evil dictactor and fight a variety of enemies that make sense and some are just weird..there are monkeys out to get you (good old nes logic). This game however does justify the inclusion of ninjas..most notably since you can hang on certain surfaces and flip yourself up when the enemy is least expecting you. And the variety of atttacks is nice from the basic sword that is fast but has short range to the grappling hook (at least i think it is) wich has longer attacks but it´s slower..and no ninja game would be complete withouht shurikens wich you can get as a powerup in limited numbers.
To finish the game you get 5 continues. And if you die it´s game over but if you continue it´s more like just loosing a life. So you get 5 lives to win the game if you die in a boss battle you don´t have to do the level all over again. Wich is what i was afraid might happen when i first saw the game over screen. Also i liked the fact that if you make a bad jump and fall to your death as we all have gotten used to..here you reappear again but loose a bit of life instead..so no worries about loosing alot of continues because of a misplaced jump.
So should you play it..yes most definetly Blue Shadow,Shadow of the Ninja,Kage is a fun ninja platformer.