Tenchu: Shadow Assassins for PSP Reviews by Gamers

I found this game to have alot of potential but for some reason it never really gave me the "want" to play the next level.

As usual first off the good:
- Graphics wise its nothing amazing or new but still a good looking hand held game.
- The design of decent length story levels with the ability to jump into the smaller separate missions is a great idea for portable gaming.

Now the long list of bad:
- It gets real repetitive real fast as the locations never really change and the attacks stay the same.
- The only attacks consists of sneaking around in inky mist shadow points that sometimes bring you eye to eye 1 foot from a bad guy who cant see you and then pressing square. You get the option to press the nub in four directions for different attacks but they are always randomly done no matter what direction you choose so you have no "real" control over them. Tenchu doesn't have a sword in this so it counts as an item and is only good for breaking locks and defense. So if you have a sword on you and you get caught you can go into a lame fighting mini game.
- The camera... Is always going to make or break a game and it hurt tenchu in my eyes. Its a game where you need to know your surroundings and in most cases the only way to see around you is ninja vision which can even get clunky and mess up itself as it gets stuck on walls, corners, and enemies.

I know that the point of the game is suppose to be set around stealth but you just don't feel very stealthy in it most the time. There is little to no actual "action". I think the die hard tenchu fans will still enjoy it and anyone having a craving to stab a samurai should rent it but anyone looking for any actual action type game play should stear clear.