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User Rating: 7.5 | Mark of the Ninja X360
Sometimes when you're sitting around with your friends you need something to keep yourself occupied besides just hanging out. There's a tick that comes over you like you're in an elevator going up twenty flights with ten strangers. Maybe you check your phone or scratch your armpit but eventually something has got to give. At least with an elevator you eventually get off, but with your friends you gotta make up something to get out of the joint. Unless you had Mark of the Ninja skills.

Even though I've been playing them since I was 9, I don't know much about video games really. It seems I know a lot more about internet wanking websites. But community reviews shouldn't always be taken that seriously anyways, like when I tell you that the Mark of the Crouching Cramp isn't the best game in the world. Hopefully everyone doesn't go reach for the nearest tomato virus to send my way.

The gameplay and presentation is slick like your girlfriends favorite brand of condom, but the game quietly screams for a Magnum rather than your regular ribbed. The stealth aspect is executed pretty flawlessly and the core gameplay mechanics work crisp like the gears of a brand new 21-speed. Taking out foes, sneaking behind enemy lines, turning of the lights and every other thing that goes into being a gangster ninja are all there at your greasy fingers.

But that game is just too easy. There, I said it. And I put the blame on the 2D interface and my peanut sized brain (not to be mixed u with my King Kong Shlong). Sometimes I don't think at all and can get away with rolling through corridors like I was playing its rowdy brother Shank. And the times where that's wasn't possible was just as easy to complete by using a method I call trial and error.

So it starts to feel repetitive, I guess the life of the ninja is boring after all. But like any novelty, you'll have fun at the start. Murdering people is also interesting, a bit of an irony since this is a stealth game for Christ's sake. You're brain will get tested every now in then, but it also could with something more productive; like learning a foreign language or figuring out how to unclip a girls bra with one hand.

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