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Nightshade, released in Japan as Kunoichi (くのいち, lit. "female ninja") and stylized in all regions with the kanji 忍 behind the title, is an action video game for the PlayStation 2 (PS2), developed by Overworks [3] and published by Sega in 2003. It is the eleventh game in the Shinobi series and follows the exploits of a female ninja named
The first game of the series was released on June 16, 2011, for the PlayStation Portable and has expanded to six official games and three Japanese anime series. Nintendo published the first game for Nintendo 3DS in North America on August 21, 2015, Europe on September 4, 2015, and Australia on September 5, 2015.
The main weapons of Shinobi are the shuriken (or throwing knives), but over the course of the series the emphasis gradually shifted to a ninjato. One of the most important moves in the games is Shinobi's somersault, performed by tapping the jump-button a second time at the height of a jump.
Kunoichi (Japanese: くノ一, also くのいち or クノイチ) is a Japanese term for "woman" (女, onna). [1] [2] In popular culture, it is often used for female ninja or practitioner of ninjutsu (ninpo). The term was largely popularized by novelist Futaro Yamada in his novel Ninpō Hakkenden (忍法八犬伝) in 1964. [1]
Shin Onimusha: Curtain Of Darkness, a mobile phone game, was released in Japan in 2005. [6] Onimusha Soul, a browser-based game, was released on June 28, 2012. [7] The game was also released for mobile phones in July 2013 and for PlayStation 3's PlayStation Network on February 25, 2014. [8] [9] [10] The mobile version was shut down on May 13, 2015.
The game stars female ninja Hibana, who is stylistically and kinetically analogous to Hotsuma. Nightshade ' s Japanese title Kunoichi refers to a female ninja, just as Shinobi refers to a male ninja. The gameplay is also structured similarly to Shinobi ' s. Hotsuma appears as a secret character in the game. The game was released on December 4 ...
Taki (Japanese: タキ) is a character in the Soulcalibur series of video games. Created by designers Aya Takemura and Takuji Kawano of Namco's Project Soul division, she was introduced in Soul Edge, and later appeared in almost every subsequent sequel. Taki is a Japanese demon-hunting kunoichi and the greatest warrior of the Fu-Ma ninja clan ...
In December 2011, it was announced that the game would be also made available as a browser game for Google Chrome. [4] A Kinect/Xbox Live Arcade spin-off game Mini Ninjas Adventures followed in 2012. Another Mini Ninjas spin-off game, an endless runner titled Mini Ninjas Mobile, was released for iOS and Android smartphones and tablets in 2013.