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The utterly useless camera was a recurring complaint in Tom's PS2 review, so you can pretty much guess what the overwhelming problem is with this version, given the PSP's history of struggling to accommodate 3D camera control on its limited buttons.

A scruffy, ugly dog with a wonky leg.ДЄnd one of those lampshade things around its neck. Yep, Shinobido looks like it should be an embarrassment of riches for ninjitsu aficionados.ДЄnd it would be, were it not for the fact that it plays like a dog. Missions that range from all-out slaughter, to thievery, to escort duty. Eighty branching stages, scattered in such a fashion that you have a hefty spread of routes through the story mode. The option to connect to your PS2 and download custom maps from the console version's level editor. Over thirty unlockable characters, for instance. The game, now redubbed Tales of the Ninja, boasts an impressive amount of features - many unique to this handheld edition.

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However, now it's been ported to the PSP even the ability to slaughter ruddy great bears isn't enough to make up for the title's unavoidable technical shortcomings.Д«ut first, the good news. These brown-skinned natives just jump up and down like monkeys. Such was the case with Shinobido's PS2 version, which bedazzled Tom so thoroughly with its stalky-slash charms that, even though he admitted it felt like a 6, ended up sneaking its way to a 7. Killing with impunity is (cover your eyes, Jack Thompson) bloody good fun, even when the surrounding game is often quite obviously not up to snuff.

Progenitors of the stealth genre, despite starring in precious few decent games, there's still something about their mysterious ways that excites - padding across moonlit rooftops, shimmying through windows and taking out guards with a silent neckslice before fading into shadows again. At least, you know, that's what I assume. What's the appeal? Who knows? Maybe it's because the closest most of us ever get to showing dazzling agility while wearing black silk pyjamas is not spraining something while attempting an erotically adventurous manoeuvre on our wedding anniversary.

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I mean, obviously, they literally get away with murder - that's pretty much their job - but, in gamey terms, their hooded presence has fooled many of us into giving certain series rather more of our affection than they strictly deserved.

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