Shinobi

And all the weird...

Like, the double jump is very similar to the timing of, like, the Shinobi jump, where you have to hit X again, or A, whatever, B, whatever the fuck it was on the controller.

Um... right before you like hit the peak of your jump to do like this.

So there's kind of like a weird timing bit to it.

Like eventually you get used to it.

Right.

Like, and if you've played the Shinobi games, it's like, Oh, this is, this is kind of like, you know, similar to that.

So there's a somewhat of a level of comfortability, but all of that other like complicated stuff just kind really feels over-designed.

Mm-hmm.

And then on the flip side of that, Shinobi.

Oh, okay.

Now, it look, a lot of people say those are two very, very similar games, but-

Yeah, because, like, we got frickin' Ninja Gaiden, Ragebound.

We got Shinobi.

We got, like, you know what I mean? Like, we're getting some classic franchises revitalized in modern times.

And they're being done with respect, which is what I like.

And we are like absolutely in a cool revitalization renaissance of indie games and retro IPs.

Yeah, no, I agree.

Like, I love Ninja Gaiden, Ragebound, the last Shinobi game that came out.

I can't remember the subtitle to it, but that was a lot of fun.

Fantasy Zone and...

Space Harrier like they were meant to be in the same world and even like Sonic Team with Christmas Nights and the Dreams there was they threw in Sonic briefly wasn't there also an initiative where they wanted I think it was Sega of Australia and they wanted to make a bunch of games that were all in the same universe or like they wanted to make the Golden Axe tie into Shinobi tie into this and that although it didn't end up happening because the whole thing got shut down But there's always been that desire that Sega wants these games to be in a shared universe, even if not all the games can work as one.

I'd

start with Sonic himself.

Yeah, one of those moms.

So I just had to, like, you know, I had Shinobi, I had Mega Games 2, you know, just a [censored] collection of what I would consider now to be terrible games.

Wait, wasn't Mega Games 2 the good one with Streets of Rage?

[laughs] Yeah.

'Cause it does say on the cover UK's official Sega comic.

Yeah.

Yeah, it used to have, 'cause it had a comic of flipping Shinobi and Streets of Rage and all of this stuff.

Streets of Rage, Decap Attack, Golden Axe, and Sparkster, and-

Now he needs to fix it.

Da Black Shinobi had too much hope, and now he's just burnt out.

I get it, Shinobi.

Man, Shinobi.

That was a great arcade game.

You guys remember that one with the throwing stars? That was classic.

But maybe some Broncos fans are panicking, but I guarantee you many are putting that game behind them and looking forward.

We need to do the same.