Final Ninja
Final Ninja, created by the same Nitrome team (Simon Hunter and Aaron Steed) that brought us Dirk Valentine, has just been released! This side-scrolling action adventure has plenty of tricks up its sleeve, and the word "ninja" alone will grab many players. In Final Ninja's case, however, I'm happy to say that it's one of the few ninja-based titles that really is fun (and faithfully ninja-like, for that matter).
In Final Ninja you play an anime-inspired ninja armed with throwing stars, a grappling rope, and the ability to stealth-hide into the shadows. The stealth mode is a pretty fun tactic, as you'll be met with lots of security systems and enemies that will require a delicate touch to overcome. The grapple is definitely the key mechanic that makes this game shine. Without it, it'd be just another run-and-gun ninja platformer (although still noteworthy).
You're charged with the task of completing each level by reaching a black data access card, all with the intent of facing down your nemesis, Akuma. It's the classic "student tries to rebel against old-and-wise master" story, as you're called into action once again after 10 years of meditation to don the special ninja suit and vanquish your arch rival. You can use the [arrow] or [WASD] keys to run and jump, while the mouse button fires your throwing stars and grapple (aimed by the mouse cursor). Pressing [down] or [S] will let you enter stealth mode, a state in which you'll become virtually transparent except for your cool green, glowing eyes. This state allows most enemies and security lasers to pass you by you undetected. And it wouldn't be a ninja game without wall-jumping, would it? You can push against any wall to latch onto it, slowing your fall until you jump in the opposite direction.
The real acrobatics come from using the grapple. Throwing stars can be fired in quick succession by tapping the mouse, but if you click and hold it instead of releasing, you'll fire the grapple that hooks onto most surfaces and lets you swing from ledge to ledge. The grappling system will be most familiar to those who have played the Worms series. Once deployed, you can climb up and down the rope by using the applicable directional key or gain momentum by swinging back and forth. You can even gain enough momentum from a standstill to pull a complete 360 (if you can master the right timing between the up-and-down and side-to-side movement).
Analysis: Nitrome didn't stray off the beaten path when it comes to the look and feel of Final Ninja. The cartoonish pixel graphics are exactly what we're used to seeing and they're just as good as ever. Aside from a seemingly "sticky" wall jumping mechanic, I was a bit hard-pressed to find many faults in Final Ninja. Level progression tempo is tuned perfectly, introducing new elements level by level with signpost tutorial hints along the way. Within each level, no matter where you are, you'll never find yourself far from an arrow indicating which direction you should follow so you don't get lost.
As you get past the fifth level or so, a larger variety of enemies and security systems are introduced, keeping your environments interesting and dynamic. Things get a bit tougher when electric platform edges are introduced, limiting your grappling options. Tto quote the game, "Even a ninja cannot defeat electricity...I respect its ability to bring death to those who are slow".
An interesting, atmospheric and all-around fun grapple-based platformer from Nitrome! Play Final Ninja.
Yea..I am the first (and so special)!!
Wow this game iss amazing with all thesemouse click only games I was thinking nitrome was starting to lose it but this is amazing! Its just toxic with the wall jump. Like Dirk Valentine with the being able to throw chains. And the invisibility its AMAZING. But also I see that Nitrome sees this game is awesome too, because this is the FINAL ninja and they don't want to make another. It probably took alot of work for this one. Awesome Nitrome!
Yay!!! I am second (I think), and this is a nice break from Mutiny (stupid level 9!!!). The stealth mode is really cool, and the transparent effect is sory of like "fading into the shadows". Also, Nitrome put some main elements from other games, such as the chain cannon from Dirk Valentine and wall jumpin from Toxic. Though the bonuses at the end puzzle me... I think the "Buddha Bonus" means how many enemies you did NOT kill.
All in all, a great game.
I can't beat level 7 (Power Tower 1)! Any hints?
This game is like every Nitrome game. Fun, addicting, and way too hard. I'm stuck on Lvl 9. Btw, I'm pretty sure I've saw something like this before.
This is a nice game! Nitrome did some really cool new things with the enemies, including different attacks and the ability to only be harmed in certain stances. I also like how they made the enemies relocate depending on where you are. This is my second favorite game by Nitrome, only beat by Dirk Valentine.
Did someone say apple store? Where?!?!
:P
I've gotten a bit bored with nitrome games. My favorite had to be hot air balloon 2. That was mainly due to the open level system. There were secret passages and such. No such thing exists in their newer games. It's level by level system. And I frankly don't like that. But that's my opinion. And I just didn't know where to put this. Thank you all for your time.
Help!
I can't do anything on the front page!
Great game though I wish Nitrome would finally find a way to display games in fullscreen or have some kind of border preventing you from clicking at one of the links outside of the playing field by mistake...happend to me many times during playing.
Generally I'm a bit less-than-pleased with Nitrome games, but this one is a very happy exception. It's amazing. The only downside is the ridiculous load times for individual levels.
Ninja: You get the Buddha Bonus for not killing any enemies in a level - a whopping 10,000 points. You presumably get the Retirement Bonus for collecting all the cash.
This is a really good game!
As I found Dirk Valentine a great game, it follows that I find this a great game.
Even the music is similar.
I'm at the final boss :)
This reminds me of Dirk valentine with a good plot,mouse weapon/tool,mid game boss,and lots of fun enemies.It even has the help bubbles.The first nitrome stealth game.
For those finding this one similar in quality to Dirk Valentine, it was made by the same Nitrome team (Simon Hunter and Aaron Steed) that made Dirk.
Help!! I played it the first time and got to level 7, but the next time I tried to play it, the game would not load. Help!
Slang, I agree. I wish Nitrome offered a full-screen option. Aside from the company probably wanting to adhere to a standardized platform, I think it might also have something to do with loading the games from within a prelauncher to avoid people being able to rip the flash file out of the Web page.
I too have trouble with stray clicks or missed clicks because the screen is so small.
Great game though. Lotsa fun.
Is it just me having this problem? i try to get on to the nitrome site and it says ..that it doesn't exist... i know i've been on it before...
Anonumous it's not just you this game was working fine fore me about an hour ago and now look what came up:
Forbidden
You don't have permission to access / on this server.
Additionally, a 403 Forbidden error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
It's not letting me submit my score!
And I have yet to see the Small Fry end screen... (the glitch prevented me from sending a start to finish score!)
If people are having any trouble connecting to the site or loading levels it's because we're getting hammered. Please bear with us.
The games are a fixed size due to processor overhead. %70 of the hit in Final Ninja is down purely to rendering graphics. I've scaled up the games before in the IDE and they chug. The quality is even forced to low to get more speed (which people doing vector graphics can't do :P). People can easily get the swf, it just won't do them any good because it is encrypted and will only work from nitrome.com.
If any flash gurus have any experience to offer on running high overhead applications fullscreen, their two cents is welcome.
Glad people like the game, especially seeing as it went over budget.
I beat the game. It was awesome, but I must say that the bosses and the Samurai have some very bad errors. With both bosses, one can sit overhead and shoot them without being slightly endangered. With the samurai, one can shoot them from behind and they will not even notice it.
So far, pretty fun- which is an exception for Nitrome games. One small but consistent bug hits me hard, though: if you press and hold a direction (rather than tapping it once) to do a wall-drag, then tap the other direction to jump off, you just start falling away (rather than rising up jump-style); and more importantly, Mr. Ninja remains in the wall-drag sprite position even when he's no longer at a wall.
Why won't it load? It freezes everything on the loading screen. Any ideas why?
I'm stuck trying to load the first level. Its been "loading" for ten minutes now. Has anyone else encountered this problem with Firefox?
I'm on Safari on a Mac, and the begining screen won't even load for me. Nor will the Nitrome or Miniclip logos. What has happened?
This is fun stuff. Did find one bug:
Actually, aside from the loading bug with firefox, this is an awesome game. My first thoughts were " Wouldn't it be awesome if there was a show about this guy?" I could just see a sequence where he would (as in the game) jump for a platform, miss, grapple-shuriken it, then swing back up on the other side. Reminds me of Aeon Flux.
I think that it's funny that first Nitrome released a game about pirates, and now ninjas. Guess they wanted to please both crowds.
For those of you like me who couldn't get it to load, just play the game via miniclip. http://www.miniclip.com/games/final-ninja/en/
I knew those years of Bionic Commando would come in handy
Ninja here with a safe spot for level 10!
Woo hoo!
Please, any help on Level 7?
Help me, im stuck on level 3 i cant get through the crossing pink lasers, my stars dont work and i cant reach the ledge!
Im on level 14 now, just need a little help.
Great game! I haven't really been feeling the stuff that's come out of Nitrome recently, but this one is excellent! I'm only on level 7 so far, but the rope swinging and general movement mechanics are wonderful fun.
For those complaining about the small screen size - Firefox 3 has an excellent zoom feature which I use all the time for too-small flash games (and they're all too small considering my native res is 1680*1050). You can use Ctrl-plus or minus to resize (or ctrl-mousewheel up/down, or the View->Zoom menu) to zoom the page until the game fills your window. Combine with F11 (to fullscreen your browser) for best effect. Note: You might experience slowdowns if your CPU can't handle the upsizing.
I love nitrome! And i love the intro title to this game, so old school!
Seems I'm the only dissenter here. I'm not a fan of games that require me to use both the key board and the mouse, mostly because I use a graphics tablet and stylus and it just gets way too complicated. Other from that, cute graphics, as always, and good music.
Also, if you look on level 5 above you when you start, you see the Octoboss from Hot Air 2!
Agh! Please help can't figure out level one (I feel so silly) but I can't make it to the "this way sign"
i can't beat level 7! need help!
I need help with Level 7 anyone???
Hmm... This is probably the first Nitrome game I've ever thought really good (and I've played what seems like hundreds). Although Nitrome are always playing around with fairly original ideas, this is the first game of theirs which has felt in any way atmospheric.
The extra effort in this one has really paid off, nice job guys.
Help on level 11?
Can't find a way to get past samuari things..
i beat level 7, and level 10! thanks, ninja for the help with level 10!
This is another great game! I got up to level twelve yesterday.
Level 18 is impossible! I can make it past the block jumping part, but I need help after that. Please help!!
I am also struggling with level 11... any tips? I've made it through the beginning, where you jump from ledge to ledge, but I am having problems with the samurai. I probably missed it, but could anyone tell me how to kill them? They just don't seem to be injured as they slice me to bits. Anyway, thanks for the help,
Okay, level 19 is hard for me. Any help?
Nunya, here is how to beat the cyber samurai:
I found them hard to beat too.
Thank you so much Xylozex! I thought that they were unbeatable, but your technique is working very well! I am now making serious progress. Thank you so much,
Any help on Level 9?
in some of the levels, i hope for the best and speed through them
Any help on level 12?
The loading time is absolutely ridiculous. I had to wait well over 60 seconds on a DSL connection.
Okay, I can load the level, but it won't let my Ninja move. I can shoot stars, but it won't let me use the arrow keys or WASD. Does Anyone know what to do? I am using Safari on a Version 10.4.11 Mac if that helps.
Aaaaah, level 9 is hard!! Any tips?
Never mind. I beat it! Nice ending by the way...
Level 18 is impossible!! Please anyone help me!! Please Roadripper or anyone else!!
I've currently got the highest high score. MelakxJIG (figured why not plug jig in my high score) at 122xxx :)
One of nitrome's hardest but funnest games. I'm still stuck on level 16 since i'm not good at killing samurais and i always get caught by the flashlight while trying to kill it.
I have always enjoyed Nitrome games, they always deliver high quality. However, some are very similar and many are just good, not great. so I can see why some people get bored with Nitrome. My first thought when I saw this was Dirk Valentine Ninja style.
However, this is an original and excellent game. The grappling mechanism is used in a completely different way. And the difficulty is stepped way up compared to most Nitrome games. Usually I can beat each level with a couple of tries.
Up to the challenge? I am.
does anybody know what the bonuses at the end mean? I believe I saw retirement and buddha bonuses. I think retirement has something to do with collecting all the cash.
I am totally stuck on Level 9! Help!
Btw:
Please, please, help at Lvl. 3
I don't find a way up, at the crossing laserbeams.
*ginving best Bambi-eyes ever*
Pleeeeeeeaaaaaaaaaase!!!
Lvl 7, please? I need a walkthrough, please please!
kitay, stand in the middle of the room and just jump up in the air and fire a grapple directly above you. You can fire the grapple while in the middle of a jump, its a very useful technique.
It won't let me play. I click on the play button. Nothing.
Buddha bonus is when you don't kill anyone, and you get 10,000 points for it!!
Any help with level 19? I am stuck on the part sfter where you have to cross the room with a zillion lasers going back and forth across it. Thanks!
yea I beat the final ninja game finally although level 16 is annoying but fun
For those of you that beat the game, is there a safe spot on the last level? I can't find a way to beat the boss!
i beat the game! there is a safe spot in the last level,
mossman:
Hope that helps.
for beating the final boss
Dav, I did that too! Took a while though.... :D
i am stuck on level 11. i have tryed everything! But, when i get to the cyber samurai and the guy with the gun that shoots out green stuff, i beat them and i don't know how to get past the giant green wall. i am begging plz! i need help! as soon as possible!
Could you please help me for level 7? I'm desperately stuck...
Fun game, but.
Level 19 is killing me.... but while exploring I found one interesting tidbit...
Yes, Elka, it is hard and I am finding it very hard too. Yes. Any great tips on the whole level 19? And Elka, please if you finish the level, can you give me tips as well? Thank you. Any help is appriciated.
Level 14 "Building Rooftops" is so evil! Help!
And, where's the voting poll?
Splurge88 for level 7:
Go to this link for a video walkthrough:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E96XiGyOuJw
or this one (just skip level 6):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5__VcoEMQY
I'm stuck in level 11. I read that the cyber samurai needs to thrown when jumped up, but he won't freeze! Neither when it attacks me. Is just my reflexes like crap?
I have finally beat the game! yay! I have no major tips for level 19, but I have some minor ones, and a samurai strategy. For beating the cyber samurai:
For getting through the part where the guns are exchanging laser glop:
For the part where the laser guns are making a grid:
Hope these help!
Wall sliding bug has been fixed. Please clear your cache and holding up and wallslide will have no more issues. The wall jump can actually be boosted in height by holding up when you do it, so thanks for spotting this. The majority of people seem to be okay playing the game but there may be platform specific issues owing to this being our first AS3 release. If you're still having trouble, try using a different browser or updating the flash player then contact nitrome directly and tell us the browser and computer and exactly what you did to get the bug. If we can't reproduce your bug, we can't fix it.
If there's an easy way to kill an enemy, it is intentional.
Thanks for the kind comments, your support makes games like these (and sequels to them) possible.
diodavid run toward a samurai and at the last moment jump over him, if done right the samurai starts his jumping attack but misses you. When he hits the ground after executing the jumping attack he pauses and it is then the samurai becomes vunerable for a couple of seconds, you just need to shoot him in the back. It takes a few tries to get right but becomes easy to pull off and the reliable way to kill them.
...oh and for anyone wondering, the other bonus's are :
There are secret messages expaining them all hidden in the levels.
And for the hi score addicts, there is cash hidden in some way out places on almost every level.SH
st33d thank you for samurai help you are very kind
level 18 is the hardest so far. I always run out of health. can someone help me?
Level 15 is killing me! Help!
And:
Never mind, got to extra-evil Level 16. And, guess what. I NEED HELP!
how do i beat level 18 19 and 20 there hard man
Thanks for the video walkthrough!
I'm stuck on level 11 now (something tells me I won't make a very good ninja...) - but I have a strategy for getting past the cyber samurais...
Anyway, there's got to be one time when this strategy succeeds, no?
Again, never mind. I NEED HELP ON LEVEL 17!
for anyone still struggling with level 9:
after trying endlessly to rush thru the whole level, trying desperately to avoid the pink crosshairs, i realized that
good luck!
eeh... sry to mess.. but power tower is not hard at all... done it in 2nd try :/
btw... te game is WAY to easy...
I'm at level 17. I'm almost there. If there are any hints, tips or anything I need to be aware of, please let me know.
peace,
Zee
This is is an awesome game!!
I have the eleventh highest score (106,000).
i don't know if i'm good at it or it is just easy.
I've made it all the way to level 14, but I've always had difficulty killing the samurai people. Do they die if you hit them when they're looking the other way? Because sometimes the samurai people die, but other times I just can't kill them!
The next sequel is "Toxic 2". Go see the screeny in the blog. I used to hate Toxic but that was the original and I want a preview! :-(
And normally, when something new pops into the blog, a game is released shortly after! Hooray! I am now officially exited! Shame they couldn't give us a guess date...
Still, Toxic fans, keep an eye on Nitrome and tell me if there is a new skin coming, too!
Btw, I'm on Level 18 now. And, again, I need help. 3 blocks of health is just not enough.
help on level 17 please!!!!!!!
its impossible
HELP
I need help with level 3. (yes level three I'm that dumb)
so if you could tell me how to beat it that would be fantastic.
merci beaucoup!
Lizzy:
Look up a YouTube video on Level 3, then copy it. If you can't, I've got a hint for you:
Keep using your stealth suit. Sorry I can't write a walkthrough, I'm always that lazy.
Again, never mind, I'm on Level 19, and, I need help.
need help with level 20 plz. help i cant beat the last boss.He has a chainsaw and he cannot take dammage from chainsaw
does anyone know how to get past lev 18?
and a tip for first boss...
yay i passed level 8 on first try!
there is an easier way to beat the samurai! all u have to do is jump past them and hit them from behind. they dont even turn around!
Does anyone know what happens when you get all the cash in all of the levels? (If anything.)
Whatevs:
You'd get a lot of points, I guess. Haven't tried, and I'm on Level 19, so I wouldn't be able to anyway.
Not my favorite Nitrome game, but still pretty neat.
Three possible strategies for cyber samurai:
common people...any help an level 18? please !! its seems imposibile... :(
ok... i beat lev 18. now tips for lev 19 please?
and for people that have trouble with the samuris.
hey i cant get the game to work. like the links dont click like they were never hyperlinked. any suggestions?
The links all work as expected, kt.
Reload the page? Maybe it's your browser?
Please! Pretty please with a cherry on top help me with lvl 12 and i finished skywire 2
if you wanted to know solid stealth bonus is not triggering alarms.
artful dodger bonus is not losing any health.
buddha bonus is not harming an enemy except akuma.
and retirement bonus is getting all the cash.
For some reason I have a huge text box on my screen that has a series of "sdf" about 20 times and i can't see the bottom of my screen on the game. I've gotten pretty far anyway though, lvl 19! someone help me please.
i figured out how to complete lvl 8.on lvl 8,dont go the long way.instead,find the shortcut
Tber123, which part are you having trouble with? I had a bit of trouble getting past level nine too.
i now need help with lvl 16.help please?
Really stuck on level 18
Help please?
I really need help on level 20. I don't know how to defeat the boss!
Anyone who is stuck at beating the boss here is how you do it;
:WARNING:
How to beat the boss
first you have to kill the guards if they try to shoot you just jump and shoot stars.Once there all dead then go under the boss and shoot up at him. Move as he moves MAKE SURE YOUR ALWAYS UNDER HIM then just shoot until he dies
Hope that helps
Im on the last level and cant beat akuma!!!!
I stood under the laser on the right side, jumped up, shot the *TOP OF HIS HEAD* midair, and the landed. Do this as many times as you can while the lasers off, so the guards don't keep falling out that thing.
All of Nitrome's are are awesome :)
Okay, so, a new Nitrome game is out, but Jay has yet to review it. I love reading reviews!
[Edit: Please use the link at the top of the page to suggest a game. That way it will get the appropriate attention. Thanks! -Pam]
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