As you may or may
not know,
Dragon Ninja is a
7-level multiload single-player
horizontally-scrolling beat-'em-up. You play a bloke called Bad
Dude who's been asked to wipe
out the sinister and spooky
'Dragon Ninja' organisation. To
do this you need to beat up
squillions of black-clad
Ninja Assassins and
hardly-clad-at-all
Women Warriors, as
well as the odd top-brass baddie like a
Fire-Breathing Fat
Man. (Do these people
really expect to be
served in restaurants?) At the
end of all the carnage there
should be an American
President to pick up and take
back home. Steal weapons,
collect energy and time icons,
and use the
R-Type-type
variable-strength power punch
on those end-of-level nasties.
Thrills? Excitement?
Innovation? Whatever happened
to them?
Dragon Ninja is quite
breathtakingly average. The
usual detailed graphics, wide
range of fighting moves and
incredibly repetitive gameplay
are all here, so everyone but the
most dedicated (and
undemanding) beat-'em-up fan
should immediately fling their
pennies elsewhere. A re-release
that needn't have bothered
to 're'.
| Arcade version screenshot... |
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| Ratings given by other magazines |
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5/10
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| Info supplied by the SPOT*ON database |
