Shadow Blade is an action-platformer set in a visually striking world where the ancient teachings of ninjas and samurai clash upon a modern landscape. Sprint through stages littered with traps, slaying enemies along your path without hesitation as Kuro, the blade of shadow!
Darkness and chaos are once again creeping into the world of man. The covenant made in a time almost forgotten has failed, the three clans now in a violent struggle for dominance. The medallion is almost made whole again and it falls upon Kuro?s shoulders to restore balance. All his training has led up to this one moment, where the fate of the world will rest in his blood-stained hands.
Steam User 23
Surprisingly satisfying ninja sidescrolling action. There's a bug with the cutscenes that might not be fixable for everyone but the core gameplay is rock solid and a lot of fun.
This would have been a classic back in the 16 bit days.
ADDENDUM: To fix the cutscenes playback issue you just need to into the game's folder and find a .exe file (LAVFilters-0.62). Run it and it should provide the game with what it needs to show you what you need to know as a fullblown ninja elite!
Steam User 3
Fun platformer. Like the combat animations
Steam User 1
This is a fun game, but default controls on keyboard are just awful.
Either change some controls or use the controller to play.
But other than that, this game is quite fun to play, it is challenging and has some beautiful backgrounds in game and Steam profile backgrounds.
If you are a fan of platform games, then I recommend you to buy this one.
Steam User 1
Really fun and challenging game with a nice difficulty curve and simple mechanics.
Animations and movement is smooth, the graphics are consistent and readable and enemies are fun to mess around with. That's all I want in a game like this.
Overall, pretty nice little game, I recommend it.
Steam User 2
fun platformer. on normal, not too difficult and generous checkpoints. also plenty of replay values if so desired, at higher difficulties.
personally just rushed to the end point without collecting much, and it was fun. no backtracking crap!
Steam User 1
this is so gaiden ... my shinobi explodes .... epic ninja-ness! nuff said!