Ninja Warriors
Robot Rush'n AttackGenre: action - hack n slash
Publisher: Taito
Year: 1993
System: MD CD
Gameplay Score: 2
Gameplay Notes:
Responsive controls. The gameplay amounts to walking right and mashing the attack button. Enemies come from both sides so you have to turn around now and then but you rarely leave the ground. You can jump but there's really no point because you can't attack while jumping. So in doing so pretty much guarantees. You'll take damage on your way back down. You can throw shurikens or attack with a sword, but you have limited ammo so attacks are generally the best. You can also duck and attack while crouched which is usually the safest bet because some enemies fire projectiles although some of those can also duck. But for the most part, the gameplay is continuously mash. Despite the decent controls The overall gameplay gets repetitive and boring very quickly.
Level Design Score: 2
Level Design Notes:
Again the levels don't have much going on. There's absolutely no platforming. You're glued to the ground. The entire game. Enemies come and predefined waves at predefined times and the difficulty ramps up very quickly. There's no power up pickups or even health jobs and no extra weapons. So every level is essentially the same thing.
Theme Score: 3
Theme Notes:
Robot ninjas. It's a near future sci-fi setting where you play as a robot. Your enemies are all dark-skinned and wearing army fatigues so I don't know what enemy Nation you're attacking, but there's no cutscenes or anything to explain a story. So it's like Rush'n Attack as a robot.
Art Style Score: 3
Art Style Notes:
Significant improvement over the PCEngine version. The sprites are much larger and there's no more letterboxing. Not bad.
Audio Score: 4
Audio Notes:
Again, big improvement over the PCEngine version. You can toggle between the original soundtrack and an arranged version that's even better.
Overall Score: 47
Review ID: 12509
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