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Ninja Gaiden Trilogy
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Developer Tecmo
Publisher Tecmo
Platform SNES
Release date Aug 10, 1995
Genre Action
Adventure
Platformer
Mode Single player
Rating ESRB: K-A (Kids to Adults)
Media SNES Cartridge
Input methods SNES Controller


Ninja Gaiden Trilogy (忍者龍剣伝 巴 "Ninja Ryukenden Tomoe") was a game released on August 10, 1995 for the Super Nintendo Entertainment System that included all three of the original NES games with remastered graphics and music and tweaks in the gameplay. Notably, the third game now has unlimited continues like the other games. The game was not released in Europe.

Content[]

Though it is on a more powerful console, the games occasionally suffers from slowdown, unresponsive controls and finicky hit detection, as well as having certain music tracks omitted during cutscenes. There was also censorship added in some areas included changing Jaquio's blood from red to green. Some of the script from the first game was altered, changing Jaquio's line "Argh! He's awake" to "Damn, He's awake.", as well as several new typos not present in the NES version.

Trilogy also included a password system for all three games, which would let players continue from the beginning of their current act. The password however doesn't track the ninja power upgrades in II and III.

Changes[]

Ninja Gaiden[]

  • Some dialogues were altered slightly, including the removal of censorship by changing "argh" to "damn", but also introduced new typos such as having "breake" instead of "break".
  • When the cutscene focuses on the Masked Devil before the first final boss fight, the screen and dialogue texts flash constantly, making objects disappear and reappear continuously until the next screen. This is likely due to a glitch.

Ninja Gaiden II: The Dark Sword of Chaos[]

  • The color-changing effect for the UI has been removed. Also, the boss music was replaced with the first game's 5-1 theme, which was also used in Malth's and the Demon Statue's boss fights in the said game.
  • In cutscenes between 5-1 to 5-2 and 7-1 to 7-2, the 1-1 music was replaced with footstep sounds.
  • Jaquio's blood was changed from red to green. However, other characters' blood still remain their original colors.

Ninja Gaiden III: The Ancient Ship of Doom[]

  • Just like II, the UI now has stationary color, and the boss theme was replaced the same way.
  • All damage now deal only one block of damage to Ryu, even for those that originally dealt more blocks of damage in the Famicom version.
  • The original 3-2/6-1 theme was removed and replaced with the original's 4-2 track, while 4-2 and 7-3 now use the 2-1/7-2 music.
  • The game in both the Japanese and North American versions of Trilogy have the same difficulty that resembles the harder NES version, which has less checkpoints and more enemies.
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