Review: Mini Ninjas

Mini Ninjas is a game via Eidos and IO Interactive. I have been rather curious about this game due to all of the press and it hasn’t disappointed.

I would say that if you’re taking a break from all the RPGs and action/fighting games, this is one of those great in-between ones that seems to have a decent story arc and the graphics are very much cartoonish which lends itself to the younger generation. Personally, I found most of the gameplay to be satisfying although the switching between players and weapons was somewhat annoying every time you were trying to adjust things in the middle of combat. Outside of that, it was pretty smooth and had a 3D feel.

The demo itself for the PS3 is rather long compared to much of what you can download and was surprising to me for as much as I played. Just exploring the entire level and area took probably somewhere around forty five minutes to an hour, but that was going slow. You could probably race through it pretty quickly if you knew where you were going instead of picking up everything and fighting everyone you could.

The only thing I dislike about this game is the voice acting. It’s not that it’s bad voice acting, but somehow the fact that it’s in English but subtitled just throws me off. Either do the entire story in Japanese and subtitle it, or do it all in English with the option of subtitling. Having it in English with a fake Asian accent and subtitling sort of deters from the game itself, but it could just be me considering I watch a lot of imports and foreign films.

Due to the different ports of this game, I’m rather curious as to how the handheld versions will fare since it’s going to every next-gen system along with the PC which means that the graphics will probably be the thing to suffer the most and controls will be awkward.

Overall, I found that this game was very enjoyable and probably will look forward in getting a copy when it comes out. After my list of RPGs and such for the holidays that is…