This is one of those games that really only serve as to make a quick buck from unsuspecting consumer. Bring the only popular stealth ninja series on a technologically challenged format. The result, well no surprise here, is a game that I wouldn't enjoy even if this was released in the NES days back in the 1980s. Tenchu Dark Secret really sets back this struggling series a few years back further as opposed to Metal Gear and Splinter Cell, who have continued on to make each game better than the last. The gameplay is extremely painful. The game is presented in a top view fashion a la Metal Gear and you move your ninja around the field doing the most mundane of missions from kill all enemies in the map, to kill all enemies you encounter on the map then proceed to a boss fight. It's one of those one note gamplay that should not exist today. That nifty grappling hook from the previous games is gone. An advantage to the ninja is getting grip on high land to scour his kill. Instead, you run around on the ground killing unsuspecting guards, it's okay to run, they won't hear you.
The graphics are really muddy and ugly. Rikimaru and Ayame have never looked so ugly. The environments are flat dead with no detail whatsoever.
Overall, Tenchu Dark Secret should be kept a secret. It's the worst game in the series and Nintendo should keep it a secret that they released this game in the US.
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