A good portion of enemies in the game can be easily outranged by your attacks, making direct combat ridiculously easy when coupled with the unflattering AI. Kurenai's main weapon is the tetsugen, or blade-on-a-string for those who like hyphenated explanations, and though stylish, the tetsugen also cheapens the gameplay somewhat.
It is the unfulfilling execution of this style, though, that is Red Ninja's biggest downfall. The setting definitely feels like a ninja game should, a sort of slightly mystical realism set in ancient Japan. Kurenai as a character is fairly believable and, let's face it, how many ninjas wear blood-red kimonos? While other ninja titles have had female characters, few have actually seemed feminine, and it is that sort of gentle innocence that contrasts against Kurenai's new line of work. Red Ninja's style, however, is an excellent break from the genre. When the storyline does make sense, it is usually due to its predictability and unabashed use of clichés. It almost seems that the plotline involves about a half-game or graphic novel's worth of missing storyline as Kurenai is training to even make sense of things. Out of the blue, new characters will be thrown into the mix for no apparent reason other than to simply add a new character into the mix, made even more confusing by how the characters interact as if they have known each other for years prior. Barely alive, Kurenai is rescued by a local clanswoman who, for no discernable reason, teaches Kurenai the ways of the ninja so that she may get back at her father's killers and retrieve the plans.įrom that exact point, Red Ninja's plotline has a coherency similar to that of the babblings of a geriatric meth addict.
Of course, inhumane weapons that the civilized world shuns is just the sort of thing that evil forces want, so before the opening cut scene ends, Kurenai ends up watching her father get beheaded, the plans stolen, her home burned, and then herself getting strung up in a tree miles away with a blade stuck in her body. Kurenai's father has just completed construction on a fearsome weapon (a sort of machine gun) that the civilized military leaders find inhumane. The game was poorly received and was Tranji Studios' only published title.ĥ0+ FPS, sound gets stretchy, change if needed.In Red Ninja you play as Kurenai, the young daughter of a brilliant engineer.
The game's theme song "Foolish Dream" was performed by Yoko Ishida. Red Ninja: End of Honor, known in Japan as Red Ninja: Kekka no Mai, is a 2005 video game for the PlayStation 2 and Xbox platforms, created in a collaboration between the game developer Tranji Studios (now ERTAIN Corporation) and the film writer Shinsuke Sato. Aggressively employing such tactics as wearing disguises, using womanly wiles, and controlling Ninjutsu powers will help you to escape enemies. Kurenai is a master of the tetsugen, a wire weapon that can cut off an enemy's head or hang them from a tree, depending on the end attachments used and the length and strength of the weapon's wire. One such ninja, Kurenai, lives to avenge her father's death and will go to any means necessary to destroy the Black Lizard Clan. Game description: As the power of the samurai class fades, Japan turns to the ninja to uphold political power during chaotic times. Red Ninja: End of Honor Cover Game general and emulation properties:
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