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The game's name is Red Ninja. It was a miserable experience. Control is clunky as hell! Tenchu punishes you for not using stealth, but this game punishes you for using stealth, despite being a stealth game! Played the tutorial, and dropped the game halfway through the first stage. I'm not playing game I'm not having fun with.

This game makes me appreciate Tenchu. Used to place Tenchu as the greatest stealth game ever invented as a kid, but revisiting it after playing numerous modern games made me aware of its many flaws. However, any Tenchu game still plays better than this Red Ninja.

I am loving it. I know that it's probably a bit blasphemous to some people here, but having tried to play the game before, I just wasn't able to stick with it long enough for the tank controls to click. However, once I found the modernized controls mod (just on a whim I Googled it last night and poof there it was) I decided to give it another go and holy shit it's incredible. I'm a huge stealth head and being able to add Tenchu to the list of stealth games I've completed (not quite yet, got halfway through today) is gonna be a feather in my cap that I've been long looking forward to adding.

Tenchu 2 also has the same mod by the same developer so I'll be jumping into that game soon after completing the first. Excited to be here! (Here's a link to the mod for Tenchu 1 if anyone is curious. Just patch Tenchu rev 1 with an xdelta patcher of your choice, turn on analog in your emulator settings, and you're golden! And here is the mod for 2.)