Tenchu: Dark Secret

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Tenchu: Dark Secret
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Developer(s) Polygon Magic[1]
Publisher(s)
    Director(s) Tatsumi Sugiura
    Producer(s) Atsushi Taniguchi
    Programmer(s) Junichi Kawai
    Shigenao Kawai
    Yuki Ōta
    Tominobu Kaieda
    Shintaro Minamino
    Writer(s) Toshiyuki Kaziwara
    Series Tenchu
    Platforms Nintendo DS
    Release date(s) JP 20060406April 6, 2006
    NA 20060821August 21, 2006
    AUS 20060921September 21, 2006
    EU 20061124November 24, 2006
    Genre(s) Action-adventure, stealth
    Mode(s) Single-player, multiplayer

    Tenchu: Dark Secret (Tenchu: Dark Shadow in Japan) is an action-adventure stealth video game developed by Polygon Magic and published by From Software in Japan and Nintendo worldwide for the Nintendo DS in 2006. It is also the first game in the Tenchu series to be released for the Nintendo system and not to have a Mature rating from the ESRB.

    Gameplay

    The game allows players to choose between Rikimaru and Ayame, two ninja assassins sent out to save a princess. There are more than 40 missions, as well as local wireless multiplayer combat and Wi-Fi capabilities which can be used to trade, buy and sell items around the world.

    Development

    Tenchu was developed by Polygon Magic—their first Nintendo DS game—and published by From Software and Nintendo. It was first released in Japan on April 6, 2006, and later that year in North America (August 21) and the United Kingdom (November 24). Tenchu was released exclusively for video game retailers EBGames and GameStop in North America.[2]

    Reception

    Reception
    Aggregate score
    Aggregator Score
    Metacritic 37/100[3]
    Review scores
    Publication Score
    Famitsu 29/40[4]
    GameSpot 4.3/10[5]
    GamesRadar 2/5 stars[6]
    IGN 3.5/10[2]
    Nintendo Life 2/10 stars[7]
    Nintendo Power 5/10[8]
    ONM 30%[9]

    Tenchu: Dark Secret received "unfavorable" reviews according to video game review aggregator Metacritic.[3] In Japan, Famitsu gave it a score of one eight and three sevens, for a total of 29 out of 40.[4]

    Craig Harris of IGN wrote that the game's exclusivity to specific retailers was a mark of a specialty product. He said the game's quality was much lower than expected for a game published by Nintendo. Harris added that the game did not use its 3D environments and that a port of the original Tenchu game for PlayStation would have fared much better. He found the music repetitive and unfitting, the gameplay "stiff", and the graphics and story poor.[2]

    References

    1. ↑ Business & Works - PolgonMagic.com
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