We head into the history books for one of the most notable B games of the PS2 era, the action classic Shinobi! What do we think about revisiting a classically hard game in 2020? What does it mean to be out right after Devil May Cry changed everything? And most importantly, what would adaptive triggers bring to the ninja experience??

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Things Discussed: Playstation 5, XBox Series X, Astro's Playroom, Demon's Souls (2020), Geometry Wars 2, Hyrule Warriors: Age of Calamity, Shinobi, Ninja Gaiden, Devil May Cry, Platinum Games, stealth games, Votoms, best games of 1995 and 2008

This Month's Game Club:
Shinobi PS2

Next Month's Game Club: 
Suikoden

Music This Episode
Blown Away by Kevin MacLeod
Fate by Fumie Kumatani
Moritsune by Tatsuyuki Maeda
Polluted Water by Teruhiko Nakagawa
Patience ~Other Version~ by Yutaka Minobe