What in the world is the name of this game?

You were a ninja or ninjas if you had a friend and you could turn into a hawk and wolf I think.It was a 2-d action platformer kinda like shinobi on the old NES.ANyone know?

You are thinking of a Genesis game called Shadow Dancer: The Secret of Shinobi.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shadow_Dancer

The Game Remembrance thread is for this kind of subject matter though.

You don't turn into animals in Shadow Dancer..