Looks like The Legend of Kage 2 is going for just a little more depth than its predecessor. Not that that's hard, considering that The Legend of Kage had five (brutal) stages that repeated three times. We loved the game, however, and that's why we're as happy about this sequel as 22 of you are.The new game has 12 stages for Kage and 12 stages for his kunoichi counterpart, Chihiro. Though these stages will probably use the same environments, we are hoping for different enemy and item layouts, or Taito's cheating by calling them different stages.
There will be over 30 equippable abilities, which are gained by picking up and equipping elemental spheres. According to the GAME Watch article, these abilities will allow players to customize their play style. The NES game only had one style that we were aware of: jam on the attack buttons while jumping randomly and hoping that you'll kill all the bad ninja before getting hit by an unavoidable shuriken.
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9-14-2007 @ 1:11PM
Orville the Unfathomable Time Walrus said...
I'm 99% less interested in this game than I was after the first batch of screens. I think I must have been blinded by the pretty fall colors in the first wave of images, because now I'm suddenly seeing something that would barely qualify as a GBA game. Bleh.
It's going to be hard to sell something on nostalgia when pretty much everyone who ever owned the game hated it.
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9-14-2007 @ 4:38PM
psundue said...
I recall the arcade Kage fondly. The death-defying leaps and jumps had a wonderful sense of velocity, and the sword swipes had a terrific 'swish' effect. I remember it being really innovative for the time.
The clunky NES version, on the other hand, was pretty much awful. What a disappointment.
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11-17-2007 @ 2:43AM
Nintega said...
I have a feeling that I will enjoy this one even more than Ninja Gaiden Dragon Sword. I am a sucker for old school ninja action!
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