Tenchu Z

Reviewed by:
Scott Jones

The original Tenchu stands as one of our personal favorites from the PlayStation 1 era, but the series has fallen on hard times ever since. It developed a drinking problem, went into rehab, escaped rehab, was photographed asleep in a parked car, went back into rehab, then held a knife to Vanessa Minnillo's throat, and had its picture taken. The big innovation this time around: smell. If you fall into a sewer or ate a plate of baked beans before leaving the dojo, your enemies will smell you long before they see you. Gruesome kills, create-a-ninja, and some inventive missions make this disc tolerable, but it's not the kick-ass next-gen ninja sim we were hoping for. Hai-ya!

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