Mini Ninjas Demo Preview

Just played the Mini Ninjas demo, here's what I think.

Mini Ninjas is where you get to be, well, a small ninja guy. Actually, there are plenty of different ninjas to be, even on the demo. You get all of these cool powers like the ability to become an animal or the ability to throw fireballs. You get smoke bombs, cherry bombs, magic spells, everything. This demo was definitely not shallow, there is tons of depth, which is opposite of what I expect.

This isn't necessarily a good thing. I always hate when games use an inventory. That just complicates things, in my opinion. So much confusion in such a kid-friendly game. And it is definitely kid friendly, not in a difficulty sense but in terms of it being appropriate. Contrary to the bloody M rated game Ninja Gaiden Sigma. this game is definitely low on the violence. Instead of enemies dying, the samuria bad guys poof into animals like frogs and rabbits. This is a clever way to avoid the violence and earn the E10+ rating. Even though the violence is barely there, the combat system is brilliant. 

When your fighting, you get your basic attack, your basic block breaker, and all of whatever you have in your inventory (cherry bombs, magic spells, etc.). But, each character has a special attack. Hiro (my personal favorite, as well as the main character) has a really cool attack where everything pauses and you jump in midair, and choose you you want to strike. When everything un-pauses, you basically attack whatever you selected. This doesn't sound that cool, but its really fun to do. The other characters (Futo and the girl that I don't remember her name) don't have as cool special attacks, but that doesn't mean they're not fun to be.

The game also has stealth, though it is minimal. There aren't stealth attacks, which is disappointing, but the game doesn't revolve around stealth, so its forgivable. 

This game has so much I can't even explain in this post. There is just so much to Mini Ninjas. What looks like a shallow kids game (kinda like bolt) is actually a really fun imaginative world with great graphics, cute characters, interesting story and fun gameplay. I already added this to my gamefly list, and i can't wait to play it.