Thunderbolt Review: The Legend of Kage 2

Once upon a time, Taito created The Legend of Kage. Ironically, the game was anything but legendary. It featured a horribly bland story about a kidnapped princess and the generic ninja that set out to save her. While chopping up countless enemy ninjas and performing physics-defying platforming might have sounded like a good premise on paper, the actual gameplay was laughable at best. The awkward controls, the brevity, the level design, and everything else was so horribly executed that the game was left to rot in the inner recesses of Taito's dated gaming library. Thus The Legend of Kage fell to obscurity, only to be briefly revisited in a game anthology and an overpriced Virtual Console port. Most recently, however, the game has received the treatment that a handful of other Taito titles have enjoyed: a remake on the DS. After over 20 years, the series has somewhat redeemed itself. 7/10