Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja
Izuna and her ninja clan are looking for a place to settle down after their old master Mugen decided that ninjas were obsolete, and booted them from his castle. Upon arriving at a village that's suitably out…
Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja is a role-playing (rpg) developed by Ninja Studio, released 8 June 2006 on Nintendo DS.
What Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja is
Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja is a role-playing (rpg) game developed by Ninja Studio and released in 2006. It was published by Atlus. It is available on Nintendo DS only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Izuna and her ninja clan are looking for a place to settle down after their old master Mugen decided that ninjas were obsolete, and booted them from his castle. Upon arriving at a village that's suitably out of the way for their "Grandboss", Gen-An, they decide to stay at an inn when Grandboss wanders off. While trying to find Grandboss, Izuna manages to offend the gods of the village, and everyone in the area starts behaving strangely. Now Izuna has to descend into the various shrines for the gods in order to set things right.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja holds a critic score of 66 out of 100. That places it above 25% of the 3,814 rated role-playing (rpg) games in our database, which average 73. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored about average for its year.
What it launched against
Izuna: Legend of the Unemployed Ninja launched on 8 June 2006, within three weeks of Half-Life 2: Episode One, Hitman: Blood Money, LocoRoco and Titan Quest. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Half-Life 2: Episode One, Hitman: Blood Money, LocoRoco, Titan Quest.
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