Look, story and stuff really doesn’t matter here when you’ll be spending 10 odd hours sneaking around doing various things, depending on your play style.

The cutscenes are cheesy and somewhat decent to look at but the meat of the game is in its gameplay. The story is forgetful, in fact, it’s about a bunch of Ninja’s who do some random objectives. The ability to clear stages without killing anyone is something that all stealth games must possess, but MotN goes that extra mile to give you a tremendous set of abilities and items to enhance the overall experience. MotN is a game that will provide you a satisfying stealth gameplay, combined with sheer amount of options to tackle a level. I don’t really use flawless when describing a video game, maybe I did when I reviewed Deus Ex million years ago, but my memory is sort of fuzzy right now. You will quickly realise who made this game, but unlike the Shank games, Mark of the Ninja (henceforth, MotN) is a game with a lot of depth and flawless execution.

Mark of the Ninja is somewhat similar when it comes to basic appearance.

You must have played Klei’s Shank games, right? While not polished to perfection, they were fun 2D sidescrollers that carved out an identity for themselves due to their quirky visual style and animation. However, trailers can be deceptive as we saw from an earlier SoA offering, Deadlight–a zombie game that turned out to be average. Klei Entertainment’s Mark of the Ninja wasn’t advertised or announced with fanfare, but a few core fans showed interest in it based on the trailer. Just when I thought that this year’s Summer of Arcade XBL offerings were slightly disappointing and not upto the quality that I usually expect, a game comes out of nowhere and blows me away.

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