The most impressive thing about The Ninja Warriors is its ultra-widescreen resolution, and the gigantic arcade cabinets that had to be built to house this game. That's really cool! Unfortunately, the novelty of that is completely lost when you merely emulate the game, leaving a very mundane--albeit ambitious--beat-em-up that doesn't feel that good to play and has weird difficulty spikes. It wouldn't be until the SNES reboot (and its perfect remake on Switch) where this series truly shines.

Reviewed on May 25, 2022


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