Organization: University of Illinois at Chicago
Date: Monday, 13 Apr 1992 16:23:47 CDT
From: <U43221@uicvm.uic.edu>
Newsgroups: rec.games.video
Subject: Re: legend of the mystical ninja

In article <13APR199200511058@zeus.tamu.edu>, njn6066@zeus.tamu.edu (NGUYEN,
NICHOLAS JOHN) says:
>
>can anyone who has this game give it a real indepth review. i am thinking
>about buying this game but want to hear more about it. so far i have heard
>that the game is extremely fun and the two player option is terrific and
>unique in this kind of game. i have always loved two player type games
>such as double dragon, SF2...etc. also can anyone give a review for
>jonh madden for the snes.  i read this article that the game only got
>7-8 for most of its categories but they game the genisis all tens.
>are the graphics really not tht smooth?  if you do not want to repeat
>a post then just email me is fine. thanks......
>
>njn6066@tamuts.tamu.edu
>

I just got to the last part of the game (I'm talking about Legend of the Mystic
al Ninja). This game is a action/adventure type. It has impressive graphics and
good sound. The slow down isn't too much of a factor here. Every now and then y
ou get to a part where the SNES just can't animate things as smoothly, but it's
really not that bad. There are I think 20 stages all together. 10 are of the ad
venture type and the other ten are action scenes. In the adventure part you col
lect money to purchase various items to aid in you quest for the princess. You
can also buy yourself some special powers such as the ability to fly for a limi
ted time. There's also a tiger that can help you in defeating your enemies.
You use these powers in the action scenes. They are really /<ool. Your basic we
pon is just basically some stick and you can power that all the way up to a yo
-yo type of weapon that has longer reach. Also, if you have money, you can fire
 coins at your enemies, but you loose a $3 for each coin you shoot. There are a
lso games that you can play to win more money (mole, painting, shooting a gobli
n, horse track betting, searching a maze, etc.) There is also an arcade that le
ts you play games like Gradius, Hockey, and Breakout. My favorite games are:
Concentration and the Game Show Quiz. Anywaz, the adventurescenes also give you
 clues to help you figure out what to do, I think they give away too many.
The action scenes are more like a mario type game whare you just hit the enemie
s and collect the coins while you run forward on to the the big bad bosses at t
he end. The action scenes have very nice graphics and the bosses use the scalin
g and rotation capabilities of the SNES. Really nice.

One thing about the game is that it is fairly easy but since it is also long yo
u should spend a great deal of time with it. I have probably spend about 50 hou
rs on it already and still have not finished the game (probably because i spend
 too much time on the other games that are within this game).

Anywaz. I really love this game a lot. While it's not a Contra or Turtles, it i
s a pretty good attempt by Konami to come out with something a little different
. Also, this game is very Japaneeish. I personally like this fact about the gam
e. I recommend that people try this one out. It'll keep you busy for a while.
Oh, ya. This game has a password and logbook feature. The logbook will save you
 position in the game along with the amount of money, energy,and weapons that y
ou had before. The password will just let you start at the beginning of the las
t level that you were on, with nothing else.
From: Michael.Malak@halluc.com (Michael Malak)
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