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. It carries an ESRB T age rating.
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 1,125 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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