Game:

Rittai Ninja Katsugeki: Tenchu (1998)

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Let's Play

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立体忍者活劇点ちゅ　(Rittai Ninja Katsugeki Tenchu) is a patched version with fan favorite campaign levels, enhanced item collecting and a new mission mode, with fan favorite levels from the original Japanese version of the game.

The game plays exactly like regular Tenchu, but I noticed that the AI acts different and so does the item collecting. You receive less items per stages completed, of course a factor from the missing levels in the campaign... but you also gain more extra special items at ease while playing the game, so this version allows for faster gameplay for the most part.

Both characters still act and feel the same in this re-package of Tenchu, and the game is still quite as fun to play in this format than when it originally got released around 1997 or 1998 (I can't recall very well).

Tenchu of course is a stealth game with strong influences from Metal Gear Solid's corridor based PS1 stealth design, but with a added twist. That twist comes from hiding in behind corridor walls to detect enemies and sticking with high ground, that is getting on-top of building structures, in order to make for the best stealth kill situations. The game has a simplistic, but very interesting level design choice that is akin to Thief, but feels removed from said title for being a third-person game by design. It also breaks from pure stealth as you could attempt to play this game aggressively, since the boss fights become a staple of the title as it progresses and must be learned on tossing enemies off balance so you can kill them and move around better without excessive deaths. Also deaths cut on your supplies, meaning that whatever items you selected will drain your collected resources the more you use them, as you can see by the last level where I made the mistake of assuming I'd beat it in one go.

I think that sort of wraps it up on what Tenchu is at it's starting point. It's a great series, and I've done another run of a Tenchu game a while back, and that one is the PSP title, which I also recommend to new players. It's just a fun franchise overall, and it kinda never gets old, as it's unique considering most stealth games are centered around covert agents and such.

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