Tenchu: Shadow Assassins (2008) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Tenchu: Shadow Assassins

Tenchu 4 will use the Wii Remote to fight, dash, jump and kill like a true ninja. Players will continue the saga of Rikimaru and Ayame, elite ninjas who must use their lethal skills to keep the peace in feudal…

80 23 October 2008

What Tenchu: Shadow Assassins is

Tenchu: Shadow Assassins is an adventure game developed by ACQUIRE Corp. and released in 2008. It was published by FromSoftware. It is available on PlayStation Portable and Wii.

The premise, in the publisher's words

In the land of Lord Gohda, peace has not been fully restored and rumors of betrayal have been swirling around the lord and his subjects. As a result, Lord Gohda calls upon the Azuma Ninja, Rikimaru and Ayame, to investigate. Rikimaru soon discovers that someone is planning to start a war. Meanwhile, Counselor Sekiya, Lord Gohda's right-hand man, arranges for a fortune-teller to predict the future of Lord Gohda's kingdom. Unfortunately, the fortune-teller turns out to be an imposter and kidnaps Princess Kiku, Lord Gohda's daughter.

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and stealth. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

How it was received

Tenchu: Shadow Assassins holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2008 averaged 65, so it scored 15 points above the year average.

What it launched against

Tenchu: Shadow Assassins launched on 23 October 2008, within three weeks of Dead Space (2008), Fallout 3, Dead Space and World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King. All of them reviewed better.

Released around the same time: Dead Space (2008), Fallout 3, Dead Space, World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King.

Cheats and codes

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