This is one of the few chances I get to type this and actually mean it:

Hope y'all love seeing low resolution ninja taint.

Ninja Hayate was a 1984 arcade Laserdisc FMV game in the vein of Dragon's Lair where inputs have to be entered at the right time to advance forward. This was made a year before Time Gal so it's rougher to play and you don't even see all of the possible scenes in one session.

Revenge of the Ninja is a US exclusive port of Ninja Hayate for the Sega CD released in 1994, a little less than year after Time Gal's Sega CD port in the US. Renovation Products was the publisher with Wolf Team returning for development. This port definitely feels cheaper as the footage was straight digitized with heavy dithering, compared to how Time Gal on Sega CD redrew graphics to better fit the graphical limitations of the Sega CD. Revenge of the Ninja also adds a superfluous manual only backstory of getting revenge for Hayate's dad that mostly serves to justify why the footage has flashing spots for directional inputs. At the very least, the port does have some interesting additions. There's an English dub for this game as well as added music to scenes. This port also plays through all of the scenes in the game, compared to how the arcade version selected from a pool of scenes alongside with some guaranteed ones.

I already made a submission for Time Gal so it makes sense to me to go with this as a follow up. Would this mean that I cover the rest of Renovation Products' FMV games that saw release on the Sega CD? Who knows? I'm kind of ambivalent on wanting to check out Cobra Command, though at the same time Road Blasters is incredibly tempting.

I enter a code at the title screen menu to change the game resolution to 320x224 pixels. This effectively adds black bars to the left and right sides of the screen. This affects the FMV video by changing it from being stretched to matching the aspect ratio of the original footage. I understand why the game was originally like that but I think the footage looks better with the black bars on the side despite the shrunken screen. There are other codes that could've been entered but I didn't use those since they're just straight up cheats and debug tools.

Hard mode removes all of the inputs messages and takes away some of the visual highlights. Some of the edits are kind of rough where you can still tell where the visual highlight was, while some other visual highlights weren't removed likely due to budget reasons. At the end of Hard mode and after the credits (with an option to watch all of the footage without the border), a diploma for the "Master of the Ninja Arts" allows for a 10 letter name to be entered. The last input is after entering a name into the diploma screen.

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nymx: Claiming for judging.