Having purchased the game thinking it would be a great game to have for th e DS especially since I like both the Tenchu series in general and also the Nintendo DS. However the game mechanics alone do not convey Tenchu's trademark game play at all. The essence of hide/wait/kill has been left out completely from the game. Even removing the consideration that this is a Tenchu game, it hardly holds up to something that is even remotely fun. Allowing limited view to see your enemies, you spend most of your time running around watching the "Ki" meter hoping that you will not bump into your enemy while he is facing your way. Oddly enough if you walk under specific kinds of geometry the camera actually lowers to a usable 3rd person perspective. Of course, this is immediately lost once the camera snaps back up to the top view and you realize... this really is a bad game.
One of the few things I thought was neat about the game is the use of the WiFi feature, allowing you to connect to the net. However, once you do figure out how to get it to work through a standard Wi-Fi access point, you'll find nobody to trade with as nobody else has found the game fun enough to even bother. This feature would probably have been better if you were also given the opportunity to obtain items from the net from server driven shops as well.
This is a game you should stay away from in general. Period.
I think I will make this short, and to the point. This game sucks no-two-ways-about-it. On purchasing the game one immediately finds the game to be all about the title screen and no action or substance behind it. Qui... Read Full Review
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