Shinobi
Shinobi is the long anticipated return of SEGA's fan-favorite series, bringing to Nintendo 3DS the classic side-scrolling action gameplay players have loved since the original.
Shinobi is a hack and slash/beat 'em up developed by Griptonite Games, released 11 November 2011 on Nintendo 3DS.
What Shinobi is
Shinobi is a hack and slash/beat 'em up game developed by Griptonite Games and released in 2011. It was published by Sega. It is available on Nintendo 3DS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Shinobi is the long anticipated return of SEGA's fan-favorite series, bringing to Nintendo 3DS the classic side-scrolling action gameplay players have loved since the original.
How it plays
It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Shinobi series
Shinobi is the 24th of 36 entries we hold in the Shinobi series. It arrived 2 years after Shinobi. The next entry was Arcade Ultimate in 2012. Its critic score of 75 is almost exactly the series average of 73. The highest-rated entry is Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed at 88.
How it was received
Shinobi holds a critic score of 75 out of 100. That places it above 57% of the 1,124 rated hack and slash/beat 'em up games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2011 averaged 68, so it scored 7 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Shinobi launched on 11 November 2011, within three weeks of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Minecraft: Java Edition and Battlefield 3. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception, Minecraft: Java Edition, Battlefield 3.
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