Ninjasare fantastic. This has been universally true throughout history. Regardless ofcontext, everyninjainrealityorfictionhas dripped with pure, sugary, crystalising cool, beforeflipping offin the burst of a smoke bomb to flip around and becool elsewhere.
In particular, the relationship between video games and ninjas has traditionally spawned vast teeming hordes ofcool,flipping,stabbing,stealth-killing offspring, and that looks to continue with Atari’s upcomingN+for the DS and PSP.
LikeLinerider, which is now on the way for theWii and DS, the game is a conversion of an existingonline Flash game, and another damn fine one at that. Essentially a high-speed platform puzzler based around exploiting your character’s velocity and inertia through some fiendishly designed levels, it plays like a sugar-rush 2D version of the modernPrince Of Persiaseries spliced with a dash of the aforementionedLineriderand a big blubbery lump of classicSonic.I strongly suspect it’s also programmed with the ability to inject crack cocaine directly into your eyeballs via your monitor, such is my current addiction to it.
The handheld versions will have a healthy 500 levels when they hit this Winter, including some of the downright satanic fan-created stages, which currently have me sobbing like a lost child and struggling to cope with some serious new self-esteem issues.
In the meantime, check out theoriginal versionand this ear-rapingly soundtrackedvideoto get a feel for what the finished version will bring.
[ViaPocketgamer]
