Nightshade's gameplay was just boring to me. Though I've been playing Shinobi a lot lately. I beat Dynasty Warriors 4 Empires, assuming that counts.

I really liked Shinobi, Just beat Okami.

Nightshade was harder imo. Though only for superficial reasons. (The god damn pit falls.) In Shinobi I completed everything. The only thing I wasn't able to do was beat the game on the hardest mode with Joe Musashi. In Kunoichi I'm still trying to unlock Hibana's rocker get up & Hisui's 2nd outfit. (Still can't beat the game on hard with Musashi. That fool relies on his shurikens too much.) Nightshade's gameplay was just boring to me. Though I've been playing Shinobi a lot lately. The last boss of Shinobi is the definition of boring IMO. At least Nightshade has a fun last boss fight. (Like Shinobi III you fight some cyborg ninja.) Shit the only other boss fight on the PS2 the topples Kunoichi's last boss is the last fight in God Hand. I guess I prefer one on one showdowns rather than fights of attrition. The reason why I prefer Nightshade over Shinobi is because it felt more like an homage to the original Shinobi games than Shinobi did. Especially the music. (Course the argument could be made that (PS2) Shinobi was trying to create it's own legacy rather than take the easy way out & copy the past like Nightshade.) Though they both pale in comparison to Revenge of Shinobi. That game had you fighting against Rambo,Spiderman,Batman, hell even a mini godzilla. I beat Dynasty Warriors 4 Empires, assuming that counts. Try Samurai Warriors 2 Empires. The a.i. actually fights back. (& they'll kick your ass, unlike most of the other Warriors games.) As for games I recently completed... Bushido Blade 2. (Damn I love this game.) It's hard to believe................................................................................................................................. Squaresoft actually made good games back then. Considering that all they do now is make pointless sequels to Final Fantasy VII & the eight different projects that they have for FF XIII.

I hated the need to kick then slash every thing in that game, it seemed to dumb down the gameplay completely, because instead of needing to dodge and evade enemies, you simply pressed the triangle button before slashing. And Shinobi may have been short, but I actually liked the balance of it, because unlike Nightshade it didn't start to get repetitive with endless corridors and halls filled with enemies requiring the exact same simple strategy: kick them. I didn't care for the music either, seemed too much to be a bunch of generic techno. Damn, Hiruko is annoying. That battle seems to be too dependant on luck with him having to be positioned just right when you're doing a tate attack. I rented Samurai Warriors 2 Empires some time before that, I liked it a lot more, I like the whole theme of Samurai Warriors a lot more than Dynasty Warriors, but I thought there were just way too many things about Samurai Warriors' gameplay that was just...off. I liked Samurai Warriors 2 Empires a lot more, it had way more solid gameplay. Didn't play Samurai Warriors 2 though.

Nightshade did have a cooler boss fight, especially since its the physical form of the sword Akujiki. The final boss in Shinobi was just too long. I mean you couldn't even directly attack him first. Honestly I never did finish Shinobi on Super with Joe. I just couldn't kill off the final boss. Joe kicked ass in Nightshade since he didn't have to kick to break up armor, same for Hotsuma. Both of these games just kick ass. IMO Shinobi was harder, because the kicking thing in Kunoichi simplified the game play. Plus the platforming was more intense in Shinobi. Freaking stage five had me ripping my hair out, I mean YOU'D THINK A NINJA COULD SWIM! Oh Topdrunkee you get 100 points for those awesome Kunoichi scans. Hibana = dirty sexual thoughts. Hey did you guys hear about Orochi warriors? Its essentially Dynasty and Samurai Warriors combined which gives you a total of 70 playable characters as they fight to destroy Orochi.

Ninjas can't swim through a rushing current, like shown in the opening scene. What's Orochi Warriors? A next-gen game?

Well they can learn to swim! Orochi warriors will be for the ps2, and hopefully the psp.

I finally unlocked Joe Musashi in Shinobi! It's pretty cool how much they have him utilizing shuriken like in the older games, it changes the gameplay a lot.

Mr. Renfield! I just saw Taxi Driver for the first time last night!!! I KNEW I'd seen that shot somewhere before! Haha! :P Let's see, how many games AM I playing right now!?!? Tony Hawk's Project 8 (I recently got a 360), Metal Gear Solid 3 (I ALSO recently got a PS2 as well :P), Dead Rising (which I bought yesterday), Pokemon Diamond, The Thing, and finally Megaman64 (I got a NEW unopened copy off of Ebay! Never opened ever!). This doesn't count the NUMEROUS games I've gotten but haven't concluded yet!!! These are all just my Wii games too! Like Zelda: Twilight Princess, Splinter Cell: Double Agent, The Godfather Blackhand Edition, Farcry Vengeance. I also haven't finished Hotel Dusk...ughs. I've got so many games I need to finish!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This doesn't count the 10-15 Gamecube games I probably have gotten halfway through as well! *sobs at his own horrible attention span* At least I've played through K7 a couple times though!!!!!

Wow if you wanna go there, I still need to finish: Yakuza Okami Hotel Dusk Contact Zelda Twilight Princess Super Paper Mario Every Extend Extra After Burner Black Falcon God of War 2 Test Drive Unlimited (PSP) Burnout Dominator Metal Gear Acid 1 & 2 Mega Man Maverick Hunter X Dynasty Warriors Vol. 2 But no matter how big this list is, I still play God Hand every single day.

I beat Earthworm Jim2, what an awesome game. Having defeated the nefarios cow are hero cow has one the heart of the princess cow.

Yeah I forgot to include Metroid Prime 2. More and more of course. Ughs. So many games to play and loads of new ones coming out too!!! Not a problem really I just would like to finish these games is all. :P Haha.

Just finished Ghost Hunter. An incredibly pissweak ending to an otherwise MOTHERFUCKING BRILLIANT game. Now if I'll excuse me I'm gonna go play it again!

Ghost Hunter, the Ghostbusters rip-off? I thought it was boring.

Well then if it's a game like that there's no better ending than The Stay Puft Mashmallow Man. I hope that you get to fight him in the upcoming Ghostbusters game. That'd be cool. :)