[QUOTE="longhorn7"][QUOTE="9thwardice"]now if sega ever do there ninja research and finnally make a good ninja game gimme a call. so u never know maybe they could make a good ninja game one dayWabbit5
i dont know if you realize this but ngs shinobi and tenchu are all horribly innacurate representations of what real ninjas were. sorry to burst the bubble here but the ninja are widely considered to be the most overly romantacized group of warriors in all of history. seriously. they are nowhere near anything they were fabled to be. if you dont believe me pick up a history book :)
ok i can understand you saying Shinobi but Tenchu? YOU need to pick up a history book
A ninja is an assassin or spy in Japanese culture, usually trained for stealth.
even though i bet you didnt know the meaning of ninja has changed since then Chuck Norris is a ninja too
Nonuse ("the art of stealth") was first introduced to Japan in 522 A.D. as a religion practiced by priests. These priests were not violent people, they were "mystics" who gathered and shared information for the ruling **** The ninja as we know them were not introduced until later.
It wasn't until 645 A.D. that the priests perfected their fighting skills and made use of their knowledge of nonuse. This was because they found themselves being harassed by the central government and found in necessary to protect themselves.
romantacized?...please
:lol: where are you getting your information? Seriously stop listening to television kid. The first proof of assassinations and guerilla warfar carried out by the highly trained professionals that we call inja was in the mid 15th century writings (much later than your 400 a.d. mr. naruto). Much of this activity focused on the Iga and Koga areas of central japan. The ninja were two things- stealth espionage(spying, intrelligence gathering and even assassination.) and mercenaries(they were hired by the daimyo to deal with espionage jobs because they did not feel that samurai should do that type of "dishonorable" work). Not only that but there are NO authentic written accounts of them even being dressed in all black rather as the Buke Meimokusho states:Â
"They travelled in disguise to other territories to judge the situation of the enemy, they would inveigle their way into their midst of the enemy to discover gaps, and enter enemy castles to set them on fire, and carried out assassinations, arriving in secret."
If you dont understand that then that means they dressed up in disguises so that the enemy would think them to be one of their own. The depiction of ninjas wearing all black originates in Bunraku puppet theatre in which traditionally a character dressed in all black symbolizes that the character cannot be seen. Now, it is pretty safe to say during the night time the only sensible thing for them to wear would be all black when they were out sneaking around, and most historians would agree that even though there is no proof, that it would make sense for them to have occasionally dressed in all black at nighttime. And the ninja "magic" that you see in movies and games nowadays- they just used clever gadgets and teamwork. Sorry no teleportatino or anything.
And i will leave you with a direct quote from one of the history books that I have. It is about the Ninja's historical role as an assassin:
"The best-known of all ninja activities, and the one most often exaggerated by fiction and romance, was the ninja's role as a silent and deadly assassin."
So sorry bud, the ninja did not start out as mystics in the 400's. They had low ****origins (one reason they were looked down upon by the noble samurai) and they were mainly spies-not assassins.
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