Tenchu: Dark Secret

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Tenchu: Dark Secret

Developer(s)	From Software
Release date(s)	April 6, 2006 August 21, 2006 September 21, 2006 November 24, 2006
Genre(s)	Stealth Action
Mode(s)	Single player, Multiplayer
Rating(s)	ESRB: Teen (T)
Platform(s)	Nintendo DS
Media	256-Megabit flash card
Input	D-Pad, buttons, touch screen, built-in microphone

Tenchu: Dark Secret (Tenchu: Dark Shadow in Japan) is a stealth action game for the Nintendo DS developed by From Software. It was published in North America by Nintendo and released in the United States on August 21, 2006. [1].

The game allows you to choose between two ninja assassins sent out to save a princess. There are over 40 missions, as well as local wireless multiplayer combat and Wi-Fi capabilities which you can use to trade, buy, and sell items around the world.

[edit] Reception

Upon its North American release, Dark Secret was met with a negative response from critics. Game Rankings, a website that catalogues review scores from numerous sources to produce scoring averages, calculated an average of 40% based on the reviews available as of September 1, 2006. Common complaints from these reviews noted that Dark Secret has very little directly in common with the original console games, including the lack of the grappling hook, a non-traditional camera angle (top-down instead of from behind the back), poor graphics, and underwhelming Wi-Fi features.