Shinobi & Nightshade

[Episode 39] This month, barSILENCE is dashing across rooftops and slicing through the shadows with the pulse-pounding beats of Shinobi and Nightshade for the PlayStation 2.

2002’s Shinobi introduced us to the relentless, vengeance-driven Hotsuma, and 2004’s Nightshade passed the blade to Hibana, a fierce ninja with her own score to settle. With blazing speed, brutal difficulty, a sleek near-future look, and a killer soundtrack, these stylish action games brought Sega’s classic ninja franchise into the 3D era.

Prepare for an audio mission through shadows, steel, and synths in Tokyo!

Je te dédie ça Elliot

Tracklisting:

00:00:00 - Patience (Shinobi) [Yutaka Minobe]

00:01:39 - Intro and Shinobi

00:07:32 - Transfiguration (Shinobi) [Tatsuyuki Maeda]

00:11:07 - Moritsune (Shinobi) [Tatsuyuki Maeda]

00:15:43 - Waiting Place (Shinobi) [Tatsuyuki Maeda]

00:20:00 - Destroyed by Fire (Shinobi) [Fumie Kumatani]

00:24:02 - Strange Device (Shinobi) [Fumie Kumatani]

00:27:47 - Red Blade (Shinobi) [Fumie Kumatani]

00:31:26 - Golden Castle (Shinobi) [Teruhiko Nakagawa]

00:35:14 - Nightshade

00:39:22 - Conspiracy Bottomless (Nightshade) [Tomonori Sawada]

00:40:14 - Ascetic Practice (Nightshade) [Masaru Setsumaru]

00:41:45 - Overcome Speed (Nightshade) [Keiichi Sugiyama]

00:45:43 - Skyscraper Tokyo (Nightshade) [Keiichi Sugiyama]

00:49:39 - Dark Kingdom (Nightshade) [Tomonori Sawada]

00:53:16 - Heart Settle (Nightshade) [Fumie Kumatani]

00:54:38 - Apparition Sovereign (Nightshade) [Tomonori Sawada]

00:58:17 - Impossible Maze (Nightshade) [Yutaka Minobe]

01:02:43 - Monochrome Arch (Nightshade) [Tomonori Sawada]

01:06:03 - Iron Will (Nightshade) [Tomonori Sawada]

01:08:24 - Iron Shogun (Nightshade) [Tomonori Sawada]

01:11:55 - Outro & Final Track

01:13:51 - Kan-Ei-Ji Neo (Nightshade) [Teruhiko Nakagawa]

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