Super Ninja Hero VR

Review

I don’t know about you but personally, I was fascinated with Ninja movies in my youth! I had an entire film collection. How agile would you have to be to jump around like they did? To move fast, silently to avoid detection and use the environment to hide, just like a chameleon. To have an extreme sense of awareness and to feel where the next attack would come from.  To have the agility and the skill to inflict a fatal blow using a sword, shuriken and other lethal weapons. Fascinating isn’t? Well, put your VR headset on and you will become a Super Ninja Hero!

Super Ninja Hero VR is an action / first person shooter game where you step into the shoes of a Ninja and defeat other ninjas, samurai and bosses.

The game currently offers 2 stages: Holy Tenga and Evil Shadow with two levels of difficulty. You will be able to play them on the easy at first and if you successfully defeat the bosses you will unlock the hard difficulty.

However, the first thing you need to do is to choose which weapon you are going to use. Would it be the Bow or the Darts? Taking the bow will increase the difficulty without a doubt and will give you a bit of a workout at the same time. Pulling an arrow every second will make you sweat, let me tell you. Just a point - if you keep tension for three to five seconds, blue lighting will appear around your bow and arrow and will inflict heavy damage upon release (if you hit the target, of course).   In regards to the darts, you will have ten on each hand and press the trigger to shoot them, a bit like a gun, really.

After that, you either fight against Tenga or Shadow. The big difference between the easy and the hard difficulty is that the enemy ninja will disappear from one spot and reappear in a totally different location within the level, which makes it tricky.

Gameplay-wise, as soon as you enter a house (Tenga or Shadow) you will start fighting and you will have to eliminate a couple of enemy waves before a Japanese symbol somewhere in the room; select the grapple option, shoot at it and be teleported somewhere else in the room. You will have to do that three to four times per room (2 rooms per level) until you reach the boss of the house.

The enemies will be. . . . Ninjas (not Bears), samurai and heavy soldiers. Ninjas will shoot darts, shuriken and kunai (Ninja knife). Some ninjas will try to come as close as possible to you, and they’ll use a sword; make sure you eliminate them before they reach you. Samurai will also use swords but the heavy soldier will be using a spiky mass.

Graphically the game looks great and the animations are smooth. Personally, I think this game needs more levels. Don’t get me wrong, the hard difficulty is quite frustrating to clear, especially with the bow, but we need additional content. 

Review written by THE CPT FROGGY for Zeepond.com

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