Platform: Super Nintendo (SNES)
Region: NTSC-J
Country: Japan
Developer(s): Natsume
Publishers(s): Taito Corporation
ReleaseDate: 1994-01-28
Players: 1
Co-op: No
Ninja Warriors Again
The Ninja Warriors is a beat 'em up video game developed by Natsume for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System and published by Taito in Japan and North America in 1994 and by Titus in Europe in 1995. It is a follow-up to Taito's 1987 arcade game of the same title, and shares similar gameplay. The player can choose between playing as one of three ninja androids, each with different attributes and a unique set of moves including jumps, dashes, throws, and other attacks. The game was developed by the same team at Natsume that later developed Wild Guns (1994). In a dystopian future, the world is dominated by a dictatorial regime ruled by a dwarfish mutant-cyborg man who calls himself "Banglar the Tyrant", and he commands an army of brainwashed human soldiers, vicious mutants and non-sentient combat robots. For years he ruled the global superpower unchallenged, until a rebel army rises up against him, led by a dictator human named Mulk. Unable to defeat Banglar and his mutant armies using conventional weapons and fearing the World Government's forces were closing in on them, Mulk's rebel army decides to take one last shot by sending a trio of self-aware combat androids styled after Japanese Ninjas after Banglar in a suicide mission, knowing they would self-destruct but girded with bombs to take him out as they go. In the end they manage to reach Banglar's fortress, fighting through his mutant legion and detonating their bombs, self-destructing themselves and Banglar the Tyrant in the process. Several months later Mulk becomes the new President of the World Government. The core-data of the androids were retrieved and they were reconstructed, the progression of the AI technology which allowed the Ninja Warriors to think and fight on their own continued under Mulk's regime, becoming far stronger than Banglar's old forces, and Mulk ends up just as much of a tyrant as the fallen Banglar.
ESRB Rating: E - Everyone
Genre(s): Action | Fighting
