For me, the NES version of Taito's Legend of Kage pre-dates Wii Sports as the non-gamers game of choice. For whatever reason, my mother of all people, decided she was really into Legend of Kage. It's 1987 (so I'm like nine-years-old at the time), and here's my mother, running rings around red and blue shinobi like it's her job. She was 45% more successful than I was at saving Princess Kiri during any given gameplay session.
My point here is this: I have fond memories of Legend of Kage, and here I was thinking that the series was all but dead. But god bless Taito, as they're currently working on a sequel to the game for the Nintendo DS. Currently, there's not much information on the game other than what you see in this blurry scan taken from Famitsu, but you can bet I'm going to start stalking Taito PR first thing tomorrow.
This would be the first true sequel to the game -- the other Taito developed NES game, Demon Sword was close, but no cigar. I really hope Taito brings back that magic scroll that makes ninjas inexplicably fall to the ground dead, while the game tries to induce a seizure. Because that was really great.
[Via DS Fanboy, Thanks Action Bastard (NOT TheGoldenDonut, who also rules)!]
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6:53 PM on 08.29.2007
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No way! It was great! Great I say!
Worth $5 on the Virtual Console good?
If anything, you're probably better off getting the ROM rather than waste money on it for the Virtual Console.
Unless you are already a fan of the game, I'd say check out the rom first. It's a straight up arcade port, so there's not a ton of depth to it. Just running jumping throwing ninja stars, repeat. I still play it on the VC, but I have a lot of nostalgia tied up with the game.
By today's standards, the game isn't that great. Very few games hold up over time, and Kage probably isn't one of them. Get it for memory sake only, and if you don't have memories, hope that Kage 2 is cool enough that you'll want to go back and see where it started.
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MEOW MEOW MEOW MEOW
MEH-MEH-MEH-MEH
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You and I must of spent hours upon hours of our childhood playing this game =) Hopefully the DS version will have a 2 player co-op/versus mode.
yea and this is cool too.......also cocks?
Holy shit, you're alive! You need to comment more, lamer!
Used to have the arcade cabinet in my tiny-ass town of <3000 people; played it regularly. Now own the NES version and it's almost as fun because there's powerups and other extra things. Blocking thrown ninja stars for the win!