The checkpoints were a little bit buggy and the ending lacked a cutscene showing the aftermath of the player's choice. Definitely a good way to spend ten plus hours of your time. This game is a buy (on sale) if you like side scroll action games. I played about three hours of it, and it was very enjoyable. Once you beat it, there's a hard mode you can play with all your upgrades intact. The game isn't too difficult, but remains fun despite the lukewarm challenge. The overall progression of the game meaning the combination of its difficulty curve, story, and level design are decent. The ending was only two steps away from making me feel anything, and that's fine. It's an action game, so I barely pay attention anyway. The pause breaks immersion, and it would be cooler if the kill animation was quicker and not cartoony. On the negative, the cut scenes are a Saturday-morning cartoon style which is also fine (I guess), but your kill animation zooms in and becomes this cartoon style as your ninja does a dumb spin move and stabs the guard in the neck. The armed guards are fine (there's only like four different enemies you fight throughout the game). And by the "whole game" I mean you'll never totally get the hang of it. If you have to fight a guard, it will take you the whole game to consistently position yourself for a coup de grace when he's down. Takes a minute to learn to position yourself right. It's a little clunky when you're killing and transferring from walls to ceilings. The play control is smooth when you're jumping. Overall, the game does a good job keeping its focus on stealth killing. These almost get tedious, but they're reasonable. There are some environmental challenges to sneak by (moving laser beams), but they're quickly passed and not too hard. This game is all about the thrill of being an all powerful, all seeing, murderous ninja. Besides the combat, there's no meaningful platforming in the game-and that's a good thing. You can get a little creative in how you kill some guards, and you can run past them if you want.
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The gameplay centers around you scoping out room from a concealed position, planning your kills, then executing them with a little trial and error thrown in until you get it right. Then you'll be happily wall jumping, climbing, and stabbing hundreds of guards in the back. Its gameplay becomes semi-addictive once you learn the controls and rules (takes about 10 minutes).
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Although Mark of the Ninja is a stealth game, it figured out how to be consistently fun.