I grew up as a Super Nintendo kid, so I didn't have any particular attachment to Shinobi or Joe Musashi, so I walked into Shinobi: Art of Vengeance fairly cold, not really knowing what to expect. Fortunately,

New games in the Jet Set Radio, Streets of Rage, Golden Axe, Crazy Taxi and Shinobi series were in development, promising to breathe new life into all five dormant franchises. Now, though French studio Lizardcube – which has already masterfully resurrected two other Sega series with Streets of Rage 4 (which it co-developed) and Wonder Boy: The Dragon’s Trap – has been given the task of introducing the heroic ninja Joe Musashi to a new generation of players,

Following its already excellent work on Streets of Rage 4, Lizardcube injects another Sega series with new life in the utterly terrific Shinobi: Art of Vengeance.