Modern Ninja Action!

[XoPachi]

One of my favorite types of games since I found Ninja Gaiden in 2005 has been high mobility 2D ninja platformers. And lately I've noticed that there's a good handful of upcoming titles that are exactly the sort of games I want.

Bushiden
https://youtu.be/cWb8L6IqZBA

Cyber Shadow
https://youtu.be/qxCFHG9tEvM

Gravity Circuit
https://youtu.be/9j7ZqbIsRmU

MoonRider
https://youtu.be/-ri10O0Oh6c

Man, it would be rad if Team Ninja saw these and answered with Ninja Gaiden 4...both of them.

[XoPachi]

Annnnd I found another one. lol

https://twitter.com/Elkosign/status/128 ... 79616?s=20

[o.pwuaioc]

You might like The Messenger:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vaYsgOHTlI

And Oniken:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwluklbIY0A

[XoPachi]

You might like The Messenger:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vaYsgOHTlI

And Oniken:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwluklbIY0A

I've beaten both of these already. I personally found Messenger drops off VERY hard towards the middle when you have to retread the game all over again with very little changes. But it's the second funniest game I've ever played.

[Sumez]

I don't feel The Messenger fits this genre at all, and it keeps bothering me that it continues to get passed off as such.
Oniken wants to hit the correct nerves, but happens to be a very bad game, unfortunately.

There's an eternally ongoing thread on this forum that you might want to track down, since it deals with this types of games specifically (even though it likes to branch off): R2RKMF Scrolling Action Monogatari

[BIL]

Hey I know that thread

I will vouch for STEEL ASSAULT, it's gonna be great. Feels like the lost 16bit followup to Natsume's Dragon Fighter/Kage/Solbrain Famicom Power Trio.

[XoPachi]

I don't feel The Messenger fits this genre at all, and it keeps bothering me that it continues to get passed off as such.

I mean, it's an agile 2D ninja platformer. I don't know how it doesn't fit what I'm specifically talking about. I didn't really mention a genre by name. I...didn't really know it had one.
BUT, I'm not talking about games already released anyway. I'm here to talk about upcoming ones. I feel like there's probably more out there by smaller devs. Like Gravity Circuit, I just barely heard about because Steam recommended it to me based on what I was playing. Few people seem to know about it.

[Sumez]

Your character is a ninja thematically, so if that's enough, that's good I guess.

I don't really see how it has anything gameplay-wise in common with Ninja Gaiden, or what games like Cyber Shadow seem to promise. But I might have misunderstood what you are looking for.
It's more of a platforming-heavy metroidvania lite, with a primary focus being on in-air control of your character. Maybe you'll like Castle in the Darkness? I felt like that was the superior take on a similar concept, though the character in that looks nothing like a Ninja.

[XoPachi]

Your character is a ninja thematically, so if that's enough, that's good I guess.

I don't really see how it has anything gameplay-wise in common with Ninja Gaiden, or what games like Cyber Shadow seem to promise. But I might have misunderstood what you are looking for.
It's more of a platforming-heavy metroidvania lite, with a primary focus being on in-air control of your character. Maybe you'll like Castle in the Darkness? I felt like that was the superior take on a similar concept, though the character in that looks nothing like a Ninja.

I can't be much clearer on the topic. It's really just as simple as the OP lays it out
Ninjas. Slick movement. Platforming. 2D.

If you play as something resembling a ninja in a 2D setting doing all sorts of flips, wall jumps, and fancy aerial maneuvers with tight combat and control that's all I'm asking for. I used Ninja Gaiden as an example not because I need 1:1 carbon copies but because it's general feel is the grand daddy of what I'm talking about.
I'm lax on the specifics beyond this.