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Sep 13 2005
Tenchu Shinobe Taizen Review
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| Summary: Doh the camera angle!
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I just recently borrowed this game from my Japanese friend, and played it for couple days. I was a big fan of Tenchu game on the Playstation (the 1st one), and disappointed with most Tenchu series that were developed by Activision later on for the PS2. But now, Tenchu is available on the PSP, and in Japanese, which is great! I'm hoping the original Japanese developers start working on another Tenchu sequel.
I'm impressed with the opening FMV, which resembles the Dead or Alive 3 opening for the XBOX (where Kasumi is running away in the forest), giving a hint of the high quality game that is about to begin. The menu is totally in Japanese (doh, I can't read Kanji) and gives me a headache to find the actual play menu. But luckily I managed to enter the game.
Graphics
Overall top notch for PSP standard, I notice in-game cut scenes are reproduced in high detail texture, and the rest of the in-game graphic quality is OK, which resembles PS2 graphics, with added motion blur (because of the LCD response time). Some objects are choppy but the interior/exterior design amazes me for portable console quality. However the big disappointment is viewing distance, which is too short, but I can understand, it's only a portable.
Sounds
SFX are nice, you can hear your enemy making a noise when they're walking (using headphone though) and the music has a latin guitar feel.
Gameplay
It's basically the same as most Tenchu games, I don't really know the storyline, but it's a ninja simulation game?
Control
I find the analog movement to be awkward, and rather than make things easy, the reveresed controls make things difficult. I know it can be easily configured in the control option, but hey! I don't know where to find them.
Camera
Doh! This one is a big problem, you barely have control of the camera, and the angle sometimes upsets me, it's very hard to go stealth in the games because you don't even know if there's an enemy by your side.
Overall
The great Tenchu game is out for PSP, but still suffers from many mistakes, awkward controls, and frustating camera angles. I hope they fix this when the international version comes out, let's cross our fingers.
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09/14/05
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Agent808
| Hawaii USA
camera angles ruined all the sequels to tenchu and it seems it does it once again, why cant they just fix it already, i miss tenchu 1 
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09/15/05
14
lyam
| North Carolina USA
It's hardly ruined because of the camera.
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09/15/05
19
Agent808
| Hawaii USA
the camera problem has been a problem almost from the get-go, why they couldnt give us more control over it by now is getting rediculous. i dont know that it ruins this new PSP installment, but the fact that its a problem is upsetting. i'm still gonna try it out, i just hope i'm not dissapointed because i loved the original tenchu.
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09/16/05
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lyam
| North Carolina USA
I agree, the camera is not the greatest, but it's certainly not the worst. (That goes to T2)
The main problem I have with the camera is the way the developers tried to have it guess at what you want to look at. For instance, creeping up to a ledge results in the camera swinging down for a better view. The same goes for approacing the base of a hill. It swings up.
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12/09/05
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fuchikoma
| Alberta Canada
It was completely ruined by the camera. I loved Tenchu 1, and the first PS2 game (haven't played later ones. Tenchu 2 PSX didn't happen! It's a bad hallucination!)
When I tried this game, you could see about 10 feet in any direction. Everything else is a sea of black. If you climb up onto something like a wall, expect to go blind except for passing bad guys. If you don't get a stealth kill, get ready for the worst camera work since Tenchu 2... Get boxed into a 1x1 square while swinging blindly as the camera points straight into a wall. You can't even tell which direction you're facing. I had huge hopes for this game, but what I got was an unplayable mess. Avoid at all costs.
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