Ninja Five-0 -- Initial Impression.

After a couple of RPGs I felt I needed to go back to some good old fashion action. Some 16-bit era action in fact. It's coming via the Game Boy Advance by way of the Game Boy Player in the form of the game Ninja Five-0. Konami took the concepts of Shinobi and Bionic Commando and combined them into one Game Boy Advance title. You're a ninja. You're a ninja who is a cop. You're a ninja cop. You're the freaking Ninja Five-0! That couldn't be more out of the late 1980s if they wanted it to be. That story concept makes me want to be one bad dude vigilante and rescue a kidnapped Madonna from the skinheads! I have played through the first two levels of the game and my initial impressions are the game has a serious control learning curve. The game is really freaking hard, in what seems to be a good way. It's full of bright and colorful art with animation that is smooth and detailed. We'll see if the game is a throwback to all that was great in 16-bit gaming or all that was wrong with it...