What's your favorite Ninja design in a videogame?

Ryu Hayabusa

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Dat Latex Suit
 
I've always been a fan of the simple elegance of the N ninja's design.

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Basically just a silhouette with an oversized headband, but it's all you need.
 
Anyway for something more serious, Shinobido has some great designs

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OldRoutes said:
Why are Ninjas often colored blue? Is that historically accurate?
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In traditional art, blue (and sometimes purple) is a color used to draw black things that need a splash of color, or can't be just dark tints. It's used a lot to tint and highlight black clothing and hair. This is especially helpful in mediums where the amount of colors you can use is few, like in original print comics and in NES games, or if you're inking an illustration and only have a few color choices.

Traditionally, ninja were not showmen or warriors, and did not wear dark colors which would stand out in an otherwise-light clad crowd. Their stealth often came from blending in plain sight, similar to the concept of a plainclothes cop, from which vantage point assassinations and other stealth missions could be accomplished.

The reason we think of ninja as black-wearing folk is due to Japanese theater, in which actors wearing all black are treated as if they were invisible. The black-wearing actors most of the time were stage hands, moving props or lifting up "flying" characters, but every once in a while one of them would turn out to be a ninja and "break character", assassinating one of the other characters or similar.
 
spindashing said:
This guy had to be influenced by Jin'e in Rurouni Kenshin. Or the other way around.
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SNK and Nobuhiro Watsuki had a relationship of mutual admiration. While Kenshin was running, Watsuki frequently talked in the author notes sections about how huge a fan he was of Samurai Shodown, and Shishio's character design from a flashback was blatantly Genjuro. Then The Last Blade had a bunch of characters that were references to Kenshin in various ways. It all came full circle when Watsuki got to design a bunch of the new characters for Samurai Shodown V.

Incidentally, Jin'e himself was patterned after Gambit from X-Men.
 
abe_bly said:
In traditional art, blue (and sometimes purple) is a color used to draw black things that need a splash of color, or can't be just dark tints. It's used a lot to tint and highlight black clothing and hair. This is especially helpful in mediums where the amount of colors you can use is few, like in original print comics and in NES games, or if you're inking an illustration and only have a few color choices.

Traditionally, ninja were not showmen or warriors, and did not wear dark colors which would stand out in an otherwise-light clad crowd. Their stealth often came from blending in plain sight, similar to the concept of a plainclothes cop, from which vantage point assassinations and other stealth missions could be accomplished.

The reason we think of ninja as black-wearing folk is due to Japanese theater, in which actors wearing all black are treated as if they were invisible. The black-wearing actors most of the time were stage hands, moving props or lifting up "flying" characters, but every once in a while one of them would turn out to be a ninja and "break character", assassinating one of the other characters or similar.
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Wow, that just blew my mind!

Cheers!
 
I approve of this thread. Gonna have to go with Ryu Hayabusa... especially black leather, mystical elite Ryu. Shadow from FF6 wins the personality contest, though.

seabass0 said:
Dark Souls - Shadow Set

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(kick his ass, sebas!), Shadow Gear + Dragon Tooth was my shit. Felt good to have it upgraded to max before Twinkling was buyable.

Didn't you used to rep FF5 to the max on 1up?
 
abe_bly said:
In traditional art, blue (and sometimes purple) is a color used to draw black things that need a splash of color, or can't be just dark tints. It's used a lot to tint and highlight black clothing and hair. This is especially helpful in mediums where the amount of colors you can use is few, like in original print comics and in NES games, or if you're inking an illustration and only have a few color choices.

Traditionally, ninja were not showmen or warriors, and did not wear dark colors which would stand out in an otherwise-light clad crowd. Their stealth often came from blending in plain sight, similar to the concept of a plainclothes cop, from which vantage point assassinations and other stealth missions could be accomplished.

The reason we think of ninja as black-wearing folk is due to Japanese theater, in which actors wearing all black are treated as if they were invisible. The black-wearing actors most of the time were stage hands, moving props or lifting up "flying" characters, but every once in a while one of them would turn out to be a ninja and "break character", assassinating one of the other characters or similar.
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well i learned something new today, thanks b!
 
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abe_bly said:
In traditional art, blue (and sometimes purple) is a color used to draw black things that need a splash of color, or can't be just dark tints. It's used a lot to tint and highlight black clothing and hair. This is especially helpful in mediums where the amount of colors you can use is few, like in original print comics and in NES games, or if you're inking an illustration and only have a few color choices.

Traditionally, ninja were not showmen or warriors, and did not wear dark colors which would stand out in an otherwise-light clad crowd. Their stealth often came from blending in plain sight, similar to the concept of a plainclothes cop, from which vantage point assassinations and other stealth missions could be accomplished.

The reason we think of ninja as black-wearing folk is due to Japanese theater, in which actors wearing all black are treated as if they were invisible. The black-wearing actors most of the time were stage hands, moving props or lifting up "flying" characters, but every once in a while one of them would turn out to be a ninja and "break character", assassinating one of the other characters or similar.
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That's pretty neat.
 
NinjamicWZ said:
(kick his ass, sebas!), Shadow Gear + Dragon Tooth was my shit. Felt good to have it upgraded to max before Twinkling was buyable.

Didn't you used to rep FF5 to the max on 1up?
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Must have been a different Seabass.

But hold on a minute...Dragon Tooth + Shadow Set?! You've got to immerse yourself! I have a sweet build with Shadow Set + Iaito + Longbow + Poison Throwing Darts. Add a Ring of Fog in there and ooh boy, that's a fun RP build.
 
Reading over the thread makes me realize how much I like every single one of these and it's really hard to pick.

But I am also surprised that no one has mentioned the original Shinobi, Joe Musashi.



He can blow himself up and come right back to life and has been doing it before FF ninjas self destructed. That's gotta count for something.
 
Shinobi 3 for the Genesis.

SonicTHP said:
Reading over the thread makes me realize how much I like every single one of these and it's really hard to pick.

But I am also surprised that no one has mentioned the original Shinobi, Joe Musashi.



He can blow himself up and come right back to life and has been doing it before FF ninjas self destructed. That's gotta count for something.
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That's Shinobi 3
 
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Cerberus Phantom FTW!

Awesome design if a bit out of place initially. Then you remember Kasumi was shanking fools back in Mass Effect 2 with her Shadow Strike power. Now if we could only put Jack into this armor (or N7 Shadow) and ME would have it's very own Raiden from MGS
 
seabass0 said:
Must have been a different Seabass.

But hold on a minute...Dragon Tooth + Shadow Set?! You've got to immerse yourself! I have a sweet build with Shadow Set + Iaito + Longbow + Poison Throwing Darts. Add a Ring of Fog in there and ooh boy, that's a fun RP build.
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Yeah, that sounds like a fun build. There was just something fun about clobbering people and having enough mobility to still get away unscathed from a miss.

I thought you were tsr13 (took a bit to remember the name)... same Shining Force avatar, and he was a strong advocate for rolling in Demon's Souls.
 
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