Leaked footage has emerged of the new Shinobi reboot video game which is currently in development by Lizardcube and SEGA. The footage has appeared on social media platform X and includes the game’s opening movie as well as some all-important gameplay footage. It is not clear how the leaker got hold of the early footage, but you can check it out down below.
GORGEOUS
Brilliant
Looks amazing. These days there’s so many games that use this digital art artstyle and look absolutely awful, as if they’re Newgrounds flash games from 20 years ago. But this new Shinobi game is not that, the art style is done really damn well, it’s gorgeous. And the gameplay looks like it really has a great flow to it. If I have a problem with the old Mega Drive Shinobi games it’s that they can feel a little stiff and clunky, at least until you’ve played them enough to get a handle on the controls. In those classic games none of the smoothness and freedom feelings you get from modern 2D platformers, or even from just later 16 bit games of the era on the Mega Drive and SNES.
But this jew Shinobi looks like it really does have that smoothness and freedom that all great 2D platformers have. It looks like it just feels amazing to play and you can get into a flow state with it, and the more you replay the levels and memorise them, the easier it becomes to just blast through the levels without ever slowing down once, just keeping the right-direction on the d-pad held down the whole time and jumping over obstacles and attacking enemies in mid air and just continuing on without slowing down.
That’s something that was always a bit tricky to do in the classic Shinobi games because of the aforementioned clunky stiff controls. It was always that you had to stop moving and deal with an enemy before moving on, like it was impossible to do two things at once, platforming and attacking. But in this new Shinobi it looks like they’ve solved that problem and you can do both at the same time no problem.
I didn’t really care at all before, about the new Shinobi game. But now I’m definitely excited for it. It looks great.
Hell yes! I was hoping it would be something like this, but this is still stunning!
Please let them add the old cheat codes in the game 😭
That looks stunning…. I hope SoR and Golden Axe are of the same quality!
Looks wonderful.
This looks fantastic!!!
Looks amazing! Now I just need to see some bamboo slicing like at the start of Shinobi Legions.
If this footage is legit, I’m liking the artstyle.