kinda crummy as a game itself as it uses the 3-screen darius ultra-wide ass aspect ratio for not much reason and the game is basically a prettied-up but also jankier version of kung-fu/spartan X at its core. There's not a lot of feedback for pretty much any of your inputs, enemies spawn relentlessly and hit you like a truck, boss characters rarely leave themselves open to attack, and the hitboxes for everything is just all sorts of wack.

that being said, hot damn this game is a vibe. It's really one of those "playable album" games where the aesthetics kinda hard carry the game. Zuntata absolutely kills it with the soundtrack and the visuals and plot definitely give this sort of gritty edgy American city vibe where you are a sole cyborg ninja warrior slowly walking to the white house in order to assassinate the president while singlehandedly mowing down the entire mfin US army. The concept kinda goes hard in the places where the game doesn't. Overall I enjoyed it but I can't really give it a wholehearted rec unless you also have the proper taste for this kinda stuff.

at the very least you better mfin listen to that OST

This game has fantastic music and impressive graphics for 1988. But this is where almost all positives of this game end for me. The combat feels very limited and most of the time you don't feel equiped to fight or defend against the stronger enemies. Which is basically the worst thing you can do designing a Beat 'em Up. Another big problem are the non-existent health pick-ups. You are forced to get through the whole stage with only one health bar. And you don't want to lose a life in basically every stage, because you will need every single life for the final section of the game. The Ninja Warriors in its original form is sadly a far cry from it's two remakes on SNES and Switch. The Switch-Version even has the good music from this version as an unlockable. So there is basically no reason to play the original (except you really can't help yourself).